We’re almost back!
We’re working hard and hope to be back up normally later today - a good explanation and many changes ahead. Thanks for your patience and your support Arkadians!
Up the Albion!
All back to normal…
Just a quick note to let you know that all files should work now - sorry it took so long, I got burnt out after the megastress period and then the things I dropped to be able to make the move came back to bite me, heh… but should be replying to messages and adding new files very soon now 
Thanks for your patience and words of support!
Up the Albion!xxxx
We’re staying!
Thanks to the generous spirits of someof our beloved Arkadians (Courtney, Nils, Tom, Anne and specially Don, who has helped us in repeated ocassions with very generous donations) we gathered enough money to pay our April bill! We also have some money left for next month, which should be covered with this money and the ads payments that will arrive on the 25th (they’re a 2 month payment of 70 USD) so we can say we’re sure to stay in the server until June 1st, by then, hopefully our financial situation will be better too, so keep fingers crossed, Arkadians!It will take a bit to unpack the files we had to get ready for the move, but hope to have everything running by tomorrow. Also, good news is that the need to zip up so many folders, created several usable zips files for a finally working zip section. We are still going to be changing the system, but we are not sure yet when or how it’ll work. However we can assure you it’s going to be better than it how it works now.We know we’ve promised changes and upgrades and actions and updates for very very long with no delivery, and although it is not a valid excuse, the reason it hasn’t gone through is that our lives changed A LOT in the past year. I started working, quit school, moved homes, had a parent retire… all this affected me economically, emotionally and time-wise. The spam flooding our beloved site was a disgrace too that no matter what plugins we installed can’t quite be solved except by manual deletion, we’ve been thinking of ways to have a forum that protects us better and that looks as less of a target to spammers, but we don’t quite know how yet. I must also say, that my limited knowledge and having had to make up things as we went out of need and not quite having the chance to plan or even figure things out, made for a less than ideal system and we are seeing now the consequences of that. However, one good consequence of my work having taking over my life, is that I have learnt a lot of things, and this will make for a better system to hopefully make the arks what they used to be. I love the guys as much as ever, and promised the Arks would sail. I intend to keep my promise.Up the Arks! Up the Albion!xxxx
Server move…
Arkadians… it’s time to move again. The ads never quite covered the costs of the dedicated server and at the moment I am at a really bad moment money speaking. I have a reselling account that I use for my work, and we’ll be moving the site there I think. We cannot rehost somewhere without trying and our current hosts would not have us back in shared hosting as we used too much memory last time.The solution of moving to a shared account under my reselling one is not ideal, but it’s what can be done - we won’t be able to have lightbox downloads, which is what caused the memory problem originally, but we are going to try and keep all the downloads up and running. We are also trying to plan for a new system with single file downloads and ZIP downloads. Will keep you posted.We need to have moved everything by April 3rd, which is when the site would be shut down due to non-payment. It is hopefully enough time for a transfer of the files - otherwise, it’ll take a while to reupload as I’m stuck on a rather slow connection. But other than that do not fret.The other option relies on you Arkadians, we are 125 USD short on this month’s payment, we have been too busy yet ironically too broke to get the site fully up and running as we’ve wanted to for so long, so it is more self-sufficient. If you can donate within the next couple of days, please do so, if the payment is not done, the server move will have to go through. You will perhaps not notice. But thought you should know.Up the Albion!EDIT: Due to the move, files might be down, if something doesn’t work, please be patient, we’re trying to tie everything up as well as we can.EDIT again: This is not a joke… bad timing eh?
Libertines on BBC Radio 1 in the UK
At 7pm GMT on April 2 (Wednesday next week), Zane Lowe, well-known music DJ at Radio 1, will be playing ‘Up The Bracket’ as part of the second round of a series called ‘Masterpieces’. The album will be played out in full, gaps and all, no interruptions. How awesome is that ? There will be interviews and loads of other info about the album and the band, showcasing their influences and the people they then went on to influence. To learn more about the show : Click here . If you live outside the UK, you can listen to the show on the BBC website. Also, if you have a Facebook, join in the Libertines ‘listening party’ by following this link (you’ll need to log in to sign up).Our contact at the BBC sent those sweet words about the event: “the idea of the whole series is to get as many fans of the album (as well as hopefully some converts) listening together in a big music loving community.” Well, what are the Arks if not a big music loving community ? So join the group, spread the word, and tune in on Wednesday. The Albion needs every man woman and child she can get her hands on.
Staff changes
The Albion Arks team is changing ! Our dear moderator and lyrics manager Inky finds herself with little time on her hands these days, and is no longer able to help out as she used to (and oh boy, I can’t begin to tell you how much and how efficiently she helped). The lyrics management might be changed as a result. We will let you know as soon as the details have been sorted.We want to thanks Inky for her time and help, it’s been awesome to have such a dedicated person onboard. We’re lucky and grateful to have her stay on the forum as a regular member. Thank you so much dear ! We’re also welcoming a new member in the team. Well, most of you know him already, but let it be said officially : Tez is now a full-fledged site admin ! He’s been helping us for quite a while now, and it was only fair to acknowledge how involved he is. Please be kind to him, he’s still a little green :tongue: But we love him 
New layout
Ahoy there ! To celebrate the massive upload, a new layout was in order. We hope you’ll like it. However, due to some mess with my external hard drive, I’ve lost my ressource file, and therefore the names and urls of the websites where I got the brushes I used to create the banner. If you recognize them as your own or if you know where they come from, please let me know, so I can give credits and link back to the original artists.
After ages of waiting…
352 files have been added to the media engine now, they include Glastonbury, the full bootleg of Hackney’s Empire Reunion, bootlegs from last year’s tour… audio and video and the awesome A Day in the Life and 8 Days a Week.A full list, credits and 3 extra files (they got lost somehow, but have to figure out which ones they are) a explanation of the long wait and more shall be posted soon. I will also be checking all the messages sent and shall be looking for ways to get rid of spam. If you wrote to me in the past few months (read after September) please forgive me for not getting back to you, life has been a bit strange as of late but deffinitely want to get back in track with everything - thanks infinitely Arkadians for guarding the ship. And thanks to Tez for gathering the goods for this update as per usual xxxx
Forum’s back!… and therefore the downloads
Hey everyone! Sorry for the time the forum was down and thank you so much for your patience.The problem was that the SQL server didn’t restart properly once, so the databases were crashed and so needed a reboot and a repairing in the tables - things that were needed to do from the control panels which I wasn’t able to access for some unknown reason while I was abroad for the past month. So very sorry we couldn’t fix this before.However now you can head over the forum and to the media section Everything should be going smoothly… also, keep an eye out, there’s a surprise coming :wink:Thanks so much Arkadians!
From the NME
Well… now NME has contacted us! They’re sending the following badge: You lucky ones in the UK, go and get it!
