Hola amigos!

We’ve been designing t-shirts and have come up with two designs, each potentially in two different colours. We’re looking to sell them at gigs but need a bit of info before we place an order.

Firstly, have a look and tell us your favourite design and colour. Then tell us what size you would be buying. Please note that this is by no means an order, it just gives us an idea of what might be popular. We’ve not decided on a price yet but it will definitely be under ten English pounds.

Here are the designs;

Yellow logo

Blue logo

Yellow Fandito

Blue Fandito

To tell us which you like, sizes etc, just comment on this post. Gracias!

Tags: merchandise, t-shirts

Free music anybody? Certainly amigos, as our debut album is now completely free to download from our website (and Five Songs For Oscar may well follow it). All you need to do is right-click on El Bandito Muerto to download it.

We’ve decided to make it free because it doesn’t really cost us anything to let you have a digital download and we’d like as many people to hear it as possible. With that in mind, you’re welcome to share the album with your friends, on file-sharing networks, torrents – whatever!

This leaves me feeling slightly guilty about the people who have actually paid money for the download. When we work it out we’ll try to sort of some sort of special gift to those of you who’ve already paid money for it. Also, the CD version is still for sale over at www.cdbaby.com/ballardmusic2 if you’d rather have a proper physical copy.

Speaking of recordings, we’ve been busy writing songs for the next E.P. The subjects range from a child neglected by his father, to a drunken soldier trying to forget painful memories all the way through to an Argentinian tango about Parkinson’s Disease. So far it’s going really well and we’re all very excited about it.

We’ve also been looking for a studio to record Mexican Boy in the Snow in. The song has been a live favourite for quite a while now but we’ve never recorded it. We intend to release it as a Christmas single this coming December and so decided to go somewhere nice to lay the tracks down. We’ve found a few awesome looking places and I personally am extremely excited about going into a studio for a couple of days and being a proper band!

Keep checking the site and don’t forget, you can follow us on Twitter (@pbandbanditos) and we have a Facebook page – just search for Pancho Ballard and the Banditos.

Oh, and before I forget, we’ve got a merchandise store! It’s over at Reverb Nation and it’s got a few great t-shirts with more on the way – http://www.reverbnation.com/store/index/artist_458517

And that, I promise, is everything!

Gracias amigos.

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Hola amigos. Welcome to the Pancho Ballard and the Banditos website. I hope you find it pleasingly warm and friendly, and that the desert wind doesn’t blow too much sand into your eyes.

If you don’t know who we are look for the page called About the Banditos where you can read a potted history of all things Bandito. There should be some music lying around the site somewhere – if you can find it I’ve probably not put it up for your consumption yet so keep checking back.

Before long the site will be full of sounds, photos and even things to buy – not just music but badges, fridge magnets, t-shirts, posters and hopefully much more. No Doritos though, which is a shame as I do like a nice, cheesy triangle.

Pancho

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