In celebration of International Nothing Day on January 16th, the Original Beekeepers have recorded a dreamy new song called "Purposeful Attempts To Do Nothing" with a video from the House of Three Cheers. It’s a  tribute to doing nothing... and wearing slippers.  The song is powered by the Omnichord — a wonderful early eighties novelty keyboard from Suzuki which sits somewhere between a Casio and a stylophone.  Steve from the band says, “We started the song in 2003 and only got round to finishing it this week. Between then and now there has been a lot of purposeful attempts to do nothing. Enjoy x” https://youtu.be/HinEA1koJz0

  Our new booklet is back from the printer and ready for distribution. As it’s National Nothing Day today, the Three Cheers team is in no rush to do anything at pace but... all in good time... Print run details: Main edition on white paper, 212 copies Limited-edition on off-white paper, 19 copies We also have some beautiful A4 ‘National Nothing Day’ posters  Thank you to all the contributors for making this a very special and enjoyable issue. 

Saturday 16th is National Nothing Day, and we are celebrating the occasion with a new issue. Highlights in the issue include:  A brand-new Lucy story, in which our lovelorn lass goes on a date with a boffin who believes that the universe is 99.99999% nothing, therefore the bit that isn't nothing should also be considered statistically nothing. Poems about dashing about, far-out Bob Ross, Irish coffee and hot pastrami, remains, potato mulch, and silence  A neuropsychological exploration by Mr Hobbs of Milton Keynes And introducing Stinkpot and Dave Lucas, who drive about in a van looking for ways to make money  Dreams, drawings, schemes and more The launch will be accompanied by a new song by the Original Beekeepers, "Purposeful Attempts to Do Nothing" What is National Nothing Day?  It’s an "un-event" whose  aim is to “provide people with one national day when they can just sit, without celebrating, observing or honouring anything” It was first proposed in 1972 b

 

"Reena" is a delightful tale of gentle countryside japes, starring Mr Nicky and his woodland friends, Reena, Eric and Fox. Inspired by children’s TV classics like Fingerbobs, Bagpuss and Teddy Edward, it features music by The Original Beekeepers with support from members of fellow band Shammy Leather, narration by acclaimed voice artist Lincoln Wood, lovely photography by John Coulson and Tom Owen, and video editing by Simon Beecroft. 

Our next booklet launch is January 16th, which is National Nothing Day.  All will be revealed in due course. 

In December the House of Three Cheers published Three Cheers for Fritters , in celebration of National Fritters Day on December 2nd.  The publication was marked by several events including a pop-up shop at Alexandra Palace in North London and an impromptu flyby in Muswell Hill village centre , where booklets were distributed by a mysterious member of the House wearing a custom apron emblazoned with a fritter.  It was a huge success and many more surprise events will be held to announce upcoming booklets. Here's the front cover of the booklet and the poster for the launch events: The booklet contained silly things on the theme of fritters.  Here's a selection: In addition to the booklet, an  EP of fritter music   was created and released by   The Original Beekepers .  All in all, a frittertastic time was had by all!