JB Hi-Fi has The Process slated for the 16th. (Given that they have a P&D deal with Festival Mushroom indie-boutique imprint Trifekta, it should be widely available.)
Good-o.
Just to clarify what Ninetynine's deal is - and this *will* be kinda boring, but whatever - It's not a P&D, and Trifekta isn't a FMR imprint. The record is licensed to Trifekta for Australia and NZ on a profit-share basis. Trifekta? It's wholly owned by Tom Larnach-Jones, whose last name I consistently misspell! Anyone still awake?
I got the impression from Cameron that Trifekta were wholly owned by FMR (and were the one boutique imprint sufficiently profitable to survive their cuts).
He also said something along the lines of the label trying to con them out of their copyrights; when the contract was sent over, the original version (despite being only a licensing deal or something limited as such) would have given Trifekta/FMR/whoever all copyrights to The Process had they not sent it back.
1: Nah, Trifekta is Tom. In fact, Trifekta is just a trading name Tom uses - it really is just him. On the other hand, FMR does fund Trifekta. Make of that what you will... As to them being profitable: I'm not so sure of that. I'm also no expert on the internal machinations of FMR, but you might be aware that FMR just lost Spunk! to Inertia. Also, Tom's involvement with Gerling supposedly counts for something... God knows why.
2: The contract was based on the boilerplate FMR themselves use, and wasn't appropriate or acceptable.
re: Spunk/Inertia: I just saw that. Good to know that Rupert won't get a cut the next time I buy a Mogwai or Belle & Sebastian CD. (Except that B&S are now with EMI/Rough Trade, but still.)
Having gigged for all that time and fleshed out the songs ought to have stood them in good stead in the studio this time around, since one'd think they've have had a good idea of how to take advantage of the studio to make the songs work on record. And all that.