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

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

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

Lockdown Listening 2 This rather brief edition of Lockdown Listening is truly a C-19 special. Every day during these ‘unusual times’, various neighbours have been leaving boxes of CDs, DVDs and books out on walls and benches throughout the neighbourhood (thoroughly disinfected no doubt!). This has led to a few discoveries and a fair bit of reassessment. Consequently, I’ve deliberately … Read More

This may be the start of an occasional series or it may just be an end in itself. I thought it might be interesting to offer an honest, unedited lockdown listening list along with comments explaining some of my thoughts about the music. In effect, a collection of what I’ve been listening to since sitting indoors became the new sunbathing … Read More

One problem with very occasional blog writing, as I’ve just found out, is that the world can be in a very different place at the end of the process compared with where it was at the beginning. I started this in January/February in the midst of a song-writing frenzy (well, 7 songs completed in a month) and ended it in … Read More

The seven month gap between diary entries has been taken up with the release of solo album #5, a mini-tour, recording for no-man’s forthcoming studio release, and – most recently – the start of what may very well be solo album #6. Yippee ki-yay! ———— In terms of recording, the first part of this year was spent re-singing the vocals … Read More

Solo album #5 is now ready and about to make its way into the wider world. As mentioned in several interviews, Flowers At The Scene feels like something of a necessary refreshing of the palette. At the very least, it’s a decisive move away from the long-form conceptual nature of Lost In The Ghost Light, which was an album that … Read More