I finally got around to updating the Boing Boing search plugin for Firefox that I wrote sometime last year, sorry it took so long! (To all the five or so people that used it.) 😉

UPDATE! Now hosted at the official Firefox location (Mycroft). I’ve updated the local source so it’ll auto-update to use Mycroft in 7 days so you don’t need to do anything, it’ll switch over automatically.

Boing Boing Firefox plug-in – Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things (click the link to install).

If you’re interested in taking a look at its source, open the following up in your favourite text editor:
Source for the Boing Boing Firefox plug-in

(Updated as they switched from their blogging software’s slightly feeble search to using Google’s site search facilities a while back.)

Oh, for anyone visiting from Boing Boing please feel free to check out our MP3 downloads, they’re all full tracks and are free 🙂 We’ll also be putting up our latest compilation “BGK02” (as featured on the BBC) up in a few days as we’ve sold all the CDs, so please come back and hammer our bandwidth 🙂

Wow! We weren’t really prepared for that one 🙂 Thanks to the great Andy Kershaw last night’s BBC Radio 3 World of Music show featured a song off our BGK02 compilation. He played Wire Is Not Wool’s “Electronic Brains”, track 11 off the compilation and a bit David Holmes-esque in its electronic-trickery, it comes off of Simon Kilgannon’s debut album which he released a good few years ago. Hopefully this’ll inspire him to dig out any copies he still has, we’ll put them up in our online shop if he does! Speaking of which, now’d be a good time to mention that BGK02 has almost now sold out, sorry!, so if you want a great CD chock full of Manx musical goodness with some rather fancy “tension sheet” style packaging, along with beautiful artwork and a badge, all for a bargain £5GBP with a quid for postage, go and grab yourself a copy in our shop.
To hear the track as it appeared on the show you can listen via the BBC’s internet streaming player. Please feel free to send an e-mail to andy.kershaw@bbc.co.uk and thank him for playing Manx artists, he’s doing great things for the Isle of Man scene by give us a much needed outlet to the UK and we really do appreciate it. Oh yeah, the Radio 3 site keeps his show online for a week after broadcast so you can listen again if you missed it, like we did! 😉
NOTE: To skip directly to the Wire Is Not Wool track, get the stand-alone Realplayer if you don’t have it already (you need it to listen to BBC radio online) and run it. Go to “File, Open…” and enter the following:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio3/andykershaw.rpm
(If it pops up with a message asking you to Open or Save, choose Open, then pick RealPlayer from the Open With choices.)
Go to 0:06:12 and listen 🙂
Cheers again Andy, much appreciated!

Well it’s finally happened! After a good few months of work, plenty of delays & deliberation and lots of sticky velcro & assembly, we’re all rather blushingly proud to announce Ballagroove’s latest baby: the second Black Label Compilation, otherwise known as BGK02 🙂

It features tracks from 15 artists, encompassing a wide variety of local bands including Cocahiba, Jimmy Tinkler, Rhysical Pheck, the Scope and Stinging With Bigness, with music ranging from folk through to dance via electric guitars and weird bleepy things. The CD comes with bespoke and unique packaging (and the odd surprise) and costs just £5. It is available from Black & Blue in Douglas, the Bay Hotel in Port Erin, or directly from our online shop. There are fairly limited copies available, so order it now to avoid disappointment!