If you listen to The Tower on Spotify you might have noticed quite a lot of episodes are missing from the feed. This is because Spotify has removed them due to 'potential copyright infringement'. All of Part 1, most of Part 2 and one episode of Part 3 are missing.

To be very clear, all the music in The Tower is composed and performed by me for this story. The generous explanation here is that, because we have released the soundtracks to the series, it's set off Spotify's automated systems and they've pulled anything that they think might contain infringing works.

I say the generous explanation because, at time of writing, we have not really been given one. We have been back and forth and round and round with Spotify support for months now and no progress has been made. We have made it clear time and time again that there is no copyright infringement in the series and that it's an error, but nothing has been restored, at time of recording.

To be blunt, it feels like we're either talking to an AI or to people who have no interest in helping us, and I'm not entirely sure which one is worse.

We are going to keep trying to get this situation resolved but, in the meantime, you can listen to the series in full anywhere you can get podcasts, it's just Spotify that's affected. You can also get Parts 1-3, as well as all the music for the show for free on Bandcamp.

Thank you for listening, and thank you to those listeners who brought this to our attention, we will hopefully be fully back up on Spotify sooner rather than later, thank you.

This is a very quick update about The Tower as well as an introduction to a new show we've been working on.

Land's End: A Shepherd's Tale is a rural gothic horror about land rights, pastoralism and queer rural life written by Bibi June (Folxlore) stars Tobias Weatherburn (Camlann, Space Marine II) and is directed by Robyn Holdaway (Camlann, Sex Education) and produced by Amber Devereux and Ross McFarlane at Tin Can Audio.

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On the 31st August 2023 Amber performed a brand new audio piece about The Tower in Glasgow supporting The Wind podcast as part of their world tour. This is a recording of their set.

You can see Amber putting together the live show and rehearsing it here: https://youtu.be/r8gZgkAdtUs

Listen to The Wind: https://thewind.org/

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Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/435wzAp

Spotify: https://bit.ly/45oXfyn

This is just a quick announcement to say that the soundtrack for Part 3 of The Tower is now available to pre-order from the Tin Can Audio Bandcamp page.

If you pre-order the album you'll get my favourite track on the album, 'These Lifeless Things' right away, that's the track playing behind me.

The full album will be released on Bandcamp and on most streaming services on May 21st. I've put a pre-save link in the shownotes.

The score for Part 3 was some of the most challenging, but also some of the most rewarding, music I've ever had the pleasure of making. It ties together a lot of musical themes and threads from Part 1 & 2 while also introducing some of its own sounds and motifs.

It also has a lot of very, very tasty synth textures and we played around with a lot of tape effects with this soundtrack. I'm very proud of it, I think it's some of the best music from the series.

Thank to everyone who has listened and continues to listen to this series and its soundtrack. I can't quite believe we've made it this far!

We are in the process of figuring out the final part of the series. I don't really have any news other than that but I thought it was important to let you know that there is going to be another part.

That will hopefully be appearing sooner rather than later but, in the meantime, please enjoy the rest of this track and thank you so much for listening, and thank you so much for being here.

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'I'm done being weighed down by the past'

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3m5ioLs

Download the whole series here: tincanaudio.bandcamp.com

Support The Tower on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/tincanaudio

Starring:

Katrina Allen as Kiri

David Pellow as Chris

Mark Gallie as Ike

Written, scored and edited by David Devereux

Executive produced by Ella Watts

Artwork by Sarah Grant

Supported by Creative Scotland

tincanaudio.co.uk

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'Sometimes you have to be lost to find your way'

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3WGtDqj

Download the whole series here: tincanaudio.bandcamp.com

Support The Tower on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/tincanaudio

Listen to Forgive Me: https://pod.link/1526851765

Starring:

Katrina Allen as Kiri

with

Sarah Golding as Kiri's Mum

Additional Voices by Katrina Allen, David Pellow, Mark Gallie and Sarah Golding

Written, scored and edited by David Devereux

Executive produced by Ella Watts

Artwork by Sarah Grant

Supported by Creative Scotland

tincanaudio.co.uk

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'What are you doing?'

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3VvuKsp

Download the whole series here: tincanaudio.bandcamp.com

Support The Tower on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/tincanaudio

Listen to Folxlore: https://pod.link/1495636313

Starring:

Katrina Allen as Kiri

Mark Gallie as Chris

Additional Voices by Katrina Allen, David Pellow, Mark Gallie and Sarah Golding

Written, scored and edited by David Devereux

Executive produced by Ella Watts

Artwork by Sarah Grant

Supported by Creative Scotland

tincanaudio.co.uk

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'You know you don't have to keep going if you don't want to?'

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3U70Qdx

Download the whole series here: tincanaudio.bandcamp.com

Support The Tower on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/tincanaudio

Listen to Chain Of Being: https://pod.link/1485884157

Starring:

Katrina Allen as Kiri

David Pellow as Chris

Written, scored and edited by David Devereux

Executive produced by Ella Watts

Artwork by Sarah Grant

Supported by Creative Scotland

tincanaudio.co.uk

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