Well, there it is, dear listeners, the A-Bomb City Podcast is no more!

The executive committee of the board of directors of the governors and trustees of the sponsors in tandem with the action group, helmsman, caterers, writers, technical staff and the cleaning lady have just adjourned an emergency sitting in Hiroshima's masonic lodge, and in a shaky voice an elderly gentleman in a pith helmet has stated:

"It is with the deepest regret that we announce the demise of the radiophonic extravaganza known as the A-Bomb City Pudcrust, but there you go, a year and fifty episodes is probably more than the world needs."

The reasons for our decision: of late it has become increasingly difficult to find time for recordings due to our very different schedules. Also, we have perhaps taken the concept about as far as it can go. Probably way too far.

In addition, despite a lot of hard work promoting it, we never saw an increase in our very small listenership. We got plugs on other major podcasts, got mentioned by a US radio station, faked our way (momentarily) into the Podcast Alley top 10 and whored ourselves all over MySpace and any forum that would have us, all to no avail. The number of show downloads always remained the same, about 3% of what Another Japan-Themed Show That Shall Remain Nameless gets. Boo-hoo! We felt we deserved better than that, given the effort we put in.

But we've had a lot of fun doing the shows, and it has been a great pleasure to interact with the kind folks who have taken the trouble to contact us. Your support has been much appreciated, and your kind comments have sustained us throughout the year of the show's life. We're very glad that people all over the world got pleasure from our humble little sonic endeavour. Thanks very much!

I'm going to leave the site up for a while so that those who want to can grab the 50 episodes before they vanish into the footnotes of podcasting history.

And.....to lighten the mood somewhat, I (Andy) will be launching a new podcast in the very near future. It won't be like A-Bomb City, but at the same time it may be oddly familiar in some respects.....   ;-)

Stay tuned...

Cheers,

Andy & Dave