For those who are interested in Tripod TV but have not yet sent off discs to get a copy, there is now a second option to get your fill. A very generous guy and fellow Tripod fan, Tim Russell has been kind enough to donate his time and bandwidth to host a Torrent file of Disc One. So if you haven’t been able to yet find the time to embark on the mail-in adventure yet, and are in touch enough with your tech geek side, you may consider this as an option. All we ask is that if you choose this option that you at least donate some time to help share the file and not just run off with it once it’s downloaded.

This is great news for those who are just plain lazy, afraid to leave the house, or live in a land outside of this big brown flat mysterious crazy country.

A link to the Torrent file can be found in the Tripod TV section of the website. Thanks, Tim!

Quite some months ago, I began heading an initiative called Tripod TV, a DVD project collating footage of TV appearances by Australian Musical Comedy group Tripod. It’s an entirely non-profit project, and has only been possible thanks to the many avid Tripod fans throughout Australia and the world, who have graciously submitted their treasured archived footage of the trio spanning their 15-years-and-counting career. The project has also been given the official blessing and green-light by Tripod themselves, and I am thrilled to have been heading such a great community effort.

After what seems like an eternity of false-starts, hiccups and potholes, the light at the end of the tunnel is drawing nearer, and the project is now officially slated for release February 2nd. There will be a second disc compiled later on this year, though the date for that will be a while off and has not been decided yet.

More details on Tripod TV can be found in the new, appropriately named Tripod TV section of the website, or at the discussion thread about the project over on the official Tripod forums.