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  • Get the CD album and the book for a bargain bundle price of £20.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Bumper Book of Mystery Stories via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Packaged in a gorgeous deluxe cross-shaped digipak, with ten panels of beautiful artwork finely crafted by Sarah Joy (Random Panda) and with full album lyrics, credits and sleeve notes in a 24 page booklet. This is the version of the album you need to have!

    Pre order now for delivery on or around July the 7th
    Images show a mockup of the artwork.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Bumper Book of Mystery Stories via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Book/Magazine

    CLIMB ABOARD THE GHOST TRAIN…

    …where each stop will bring you to a new, terrifying tall tale.

    Medical premonitions… vivid dreams… a musical instrument which renders its listeners catatonic… a curious invention capable of changing your thoughts… mysterious connections between the past and the future…

    The fourteen short stories within these pages have been lovingly crafted by the members of I Am The Manic Whale to accompany the Bumper Book Of Mystery Stories album. Some are inspired by folklore and historic events; others are so fantastical that they can surely only be true… together they form a brand new compendium of mind-bending mystery accompanied, of course, by just a small drop of humour.

    Join us - allow your very face to be startled and your mind befuddled at every engaging turn on a thrill ride where laughs, goosebumps, shudders - and perhaps the occasional nightmare - come fully guaranteed.

    200 page paperback book containing 16 short stories written by the band.

    -Not final artwork-     ... more
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  • T-Shirt/Shirt

    It's a lovely burgundy-coloured tee shirt with the album title logo emblazoned loudly across the front.
    You want one.
    YOU WANT ONE!

    Please note that our office team won't be able to post out tee shirts until Monday 7th of August due to holidays.
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  • Chose a song that you like and a member of I Am The Manic Whale (to be allocated at random) will have a stab at recording you an acoustic style cover version of it. Song must be under 5 mins. We're not recreating all of Supper's Ready for you!

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  • One member of Manic Whale will chat with you on Zoom for up to 60 mins.
    If you like, we can offer you an instrumental lessons. Michael, Ben and John are all music teachers for realz.

      £100 GBP or more 

     

  • We will come to your house
    We will bring acoustic instruments (and keyboard)
    We will sing several songs
    We will go away again afterwards (we promise)
    If you are more than 100 miles away from London, could you drop us a message first?
    We might still be able to do the concert, but may need a bit more for travel costs.
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  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Bumper Snare Head of Mystery Stories PRE ORDER

    Grab one of the snare drum heads used on the actual recording or I Am The Manic Whale's Bumper Book of Mystery Stories. 2 available. We will all sign it for you.

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  • Bumper sticks of mystery stories - PRE ORDER

    Get your hands on a pair of Manic Whale drum sticks that were used to record the Bumper Book of Mystery Stories. We will attempt to sign them for you, though drum sticks are quite small.

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about

Some of the lyrics for this song were inspired by John Finnemore’s ghost stories, with which he ends most episodes of his Souvenir Programme. The Ghost Train serves as a vehicle to take you through all the other stories on this album and you will hear its themes recur throughout the record.

lyrics

Since you ask me for a tale of such horror ‘twill curdle your very blood
Since you ask me for a fantastic mystery that will befuddle your mind
Since you ask me for rip-roaring adventures both to excite and amaze
Since you ask me for surprises you can not explain

Climb aboard - this is the scariest ride you’ve ever had
Climb aboard - you might not survive or you might just go mad
Climb aboard - we’ll take you to places you don’t want to go
Climb aboard - it’s not really an option, you can not say no (you can’t say no)

Each stop will take you around and about to another mysterious place
Each stop will take you to a fresh new mystery that surely will startle your face
Just sign right here so we can be sure you can’t claim that you haven’t been warned
I can see it’s already too late as you’re climbing on board

Climb aboard - there’s horrors galore they’ll make you terrified
Climb aboard - don’t bring your children, do not bring your bride
Climb aboard - we’ll take to places you don’t want to go
Climb aboard - try as you might you just can not say no

credits

from Bumper Book of Mystery Stories, released July 7, 2023
Written by: Michael Whiteman
Ben Hartley: drums, percussion & vocals, Michael Whiteman: bass, bass pedals, lead vocals & 12-string acoustic guitar, John Murphy: keyboards & vocals, David Addis: electric guitars & vocals, Simon Whiteman: vocals

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I Am The Manic Whale Reading, UK

We are a progressive rock band from Reading & London, UK. 3rd album out now.

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