Email I just received from OK Go
Hello everyone,
A few months back we announced a limited-edition 180-gram maroon splatter pressing of Of the Blue Colour of the Sky that would be available exclusively through a company called Bandbox. We were very excited by this re-issue and it seems you were as well –– Bandbox sold through all 500 copies of the pressing immediately. There was a bonus element to this re-issue as well –– a 16-page "fanzine" featuring interviews and commentary from the band about the recording of this album and the groundbreaking music videos that followed. It all sounded very cool.
But as many of you are now painfully aware, something has gone wrong, and Bandbox has entered into what's called a "receivership." Apparently there has been some Game-of-Thrones-level treachery happening within the company, and we’re all waiting as it gets cleaned up.
What we can tell you for certain is that the records were pressed and they look awesome.
The records themselves were all delivered to Bandbox months ago and they assured us they were “finishing up” production of the fanzine. Late last year, the band gave them hundreds of photos from the era and spent several hours doing interviews with their writer, who'd done impressively thorough research, giving us confidence that the final piece was gonna be great. But we haven’t seen any drafts and don’t yet know how far from completion it was when the shit hit the fan.
We are so sorry for this pain in the ass, and we promise we’ll get it sorted out as best we can, as fast as we can. The receivership is as much a surprise to us as it is to you — Bandbox has done these reissues for years, and they had a great reputation in the industry until this bomb dropped. As we navigate our way through this process, our main goal is to make sure that you get your records. If we can’t, for whatever reason, we’ll refund your money out of our own pockets. We beg your patience during this, because we’re in the dark about what’s going on, too, and as you can imagine, we're not the only band freaking out trying to get answers. If there's a way to complete the fanzine, we’ll do that too.
Details about the receivership can be found HERE. If you haven’t already heard directly from a company called Lighthouse about this matter (they’re now in charge of sorting through Bandbox’s mess), you should email
Bandboxclaims@lighthousemanagement.com and provide them with information about your Bandbox order.
We will share more info with you on process and timing as soon as we have it.
And hey, on the upside, if and when you DO receive your G.o.T-treachery/Bandbox version of Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, you’ll be the proud owner of the rarest OK Go release since OK Go & Appendices.
With apologies,
OK Go
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