Due to logistical issues associated with the shipment of the new album, Butterfly Mind’s release date has been pushed back to August 5th in order to provide more time in order to address this and get the album out to you in a timely manner. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, but look forward to you finally hearing … Read More
New single ‘Dark Nevada Dream’ out now!
A sweeping and soulful epic depicting an emotional meltdown in a motel on the edge of nowhere, Dark Nevada Dream is the second single from Tim Bowness’s Butterfly Mind. Written and produced by Tim and Brian Hulse , the song features Richard Jupp (ex- Elbow) and Nick Beggs on drums and bass, Dave Formula (Magazine) on Hammond organ, and US … Read More
New single ‘Always The Stranger’ out now
Released exactly 40 years to the month after he first started performing in bands in his native North West of England, Tim Bowness’s Always The Stranger is a vibrant offering that shows an artist unafraid to play with the possibilities of his music. Featuring a brilliant rhythm section comprising Richard Jupp (in his first major session since leaving Elbow) and … Read More
New album Butterfly Mind out 17th June!
From the short, sharp shocks of Always The Stranger and Only A Fool to the long-form ambition of the sensuous Dark Nevada Dream, the cinematic Electro-Ballroom of Glitter Fades and the dystopian paranoia of Say Your Goodbyes Parts 1 and 2, Butterfly Mind delivers a thrilling fusion of Art Rock invention, Post-Punk energy and epic soulful ballads. Tim’s seventh solo … Read More
T-Bo Solo Album #7 returns to centre stage…
After work on the hugely enjoyable Plenty lockdown project Enough ended in April, T-Bo Solo Album #7 returned to centre stage and four months later it’s getting close to completion. Once more, my creative co-pilot is the ever-prolific Bobian Hulse. Between mid-October 2020 and late July 2021, we wrote 11 new songs that we deemed album-worthy (seven Bowness/Hulse co-writes and … Read More
Plenty – Enough – Out Now!
To celebrate the 9th July release of Plenty’s album Enough, the band are launching three videos for three very different songs: The dark and brooding The Blessed Ones from the Old section of Enough is a 2021 version of a 1988 piece. The atypical EuroBeat driven Soap & Water is a unique cover of a Suzanne Vega song from 2001. … Read More
Plenty – Enough – Old, Borrowed and Older
Barring session appearances, this is likely to be Tim’s only release of new recordings this year: Enough is a double CD collecting two 2021 Plenty ‘lockdown’ projects, plus the first ever release of the band’s original 1980s demos. Harder hitting and more diverse than It Could Be Home, Old is a mini-album containing seven contemporary interpretations of 1980s Plenty songs not included on the band’s 2018 … Read More
’Too much life gets in the way’
As an early no-man lyric once stated, sometimes, ’Too much life gets in the way.’ Well, that’s my lame excuse for months of non-blogging and I’m sticking to it! As it’s been such a long wait, here’s a long update. ———— As mentioned what seems like an age ago, completing Late Night Laments was something I felt compelled to do. … Read More
Late Night Laments – Album Notes
Sometimes music appears so quickly and seems so right that talking about it seems pointless; cheap even. It is what it is, and what it is is an instinctive force of nature. Conversely, when music comes unnaturally, there’s often a desire to overexplain it in order to justify its existence. As such, expect all the Late Night Laments interviews to … Read More
Lockdown Listening 3
The final instalment! The podcast with Mr Wilson, The Album Years, has been dominating my listening choices of late, so I thought I’d draw this extremely short series to a conclusion. I’m pleased to say that the random Covid-19 giveaways are still in place in my neighbourhood (with an excellent Flannery O’Connor short story collection being this week’s choice find), … Read More