Designed as a means of linking the disparate sites containing information about the various musical projects I’m involved with, another addition to the senseless clutter along the information highway comes in the form of the brand new www.timbowness.com. An intentionally simple Flash Media free zone, there’ll be no pop-up menus, audio samples, or images of me with a lizard tongue … Read More

Typically ironically, in the week in which I was going to discontinue the diaries and erase all my past entries, I wrote more than I usually do. Whether in terms of art or material comfort, for me, periods of accumulation are always followed by periods of ridding myself of ideas and objects. This leads to a constant state of finding, … Read More

Cold steel, concrete and stink. Ah, London! Courtesy of the nice Mr Jansen and Ms Zornes, I go to the Royal Festival Hall to see David Sylvian and Steve Jansen perform. Before the gig, myself and the Lord chat merrily over tea and cakes with Richard and Suzanne Barbieri. Along with the No-Man reissues, One Little Indian are also keen … Read More

With the potential legal problems now out of the way, we’ve received confirmation that No-Man’s early albums will be reissued by One Little Indian in the Spring of 2004. The last fortnight’s strongly worded emails and threatening phone calls have given way to something more constructive and plans are finally underway to make the ideas a reality. This, along with … Read More

Listening through to the master of the vinyl version of No-Man’s ‘Together We’re Stranger’, I become suddenly paranoid that I may never be able to do something quite so emotionally and musically complete again. In many ways this was an album that came effortlessly to us, but only as a result of a series of inexpressibly hard and unique personal … Read More

It’s Sunday night in Gütersloh and it’s freezing. The only refuge from the harsh elements is that high water mark of German culture, Köchlöffel. Two coffees later, served by a visibly shocked waitress who obviously equates my faltering Deutsche-English with incomprehensible alien, I’m on ‘stage’ with Centrozoon performing at the Martin Luther Church. Refraining from defiling the pulpit and the … Read More

Seems like old times (parts 1 to 5): The long, long journey into London, the crush and rush of the sweat-drenched underground and the familiar business discussed with familiar faces in all too familiar spaces. Not to mention the expectedly obscene bulge in our bags as myself and Mr Wilson left for home with approximately twice our body weight in … Read More

“Fantastic idea! Let’s sort it out over lunch next week. Can you pass the sugar, please?” Meetings, meetings and more meetings. This week has witnessed lots of talk about intriguing future possibilities over coffee and doughnuts, but little solid-gold easy action. Making the effort to get external commitment and support to actualise plans can be time-consuming, emotionally draining and very, … Read More

Stephen Bennett’s video for No-Man’s ‘Things I Want To Tell You’ is, in accord with the mood of the track, haunting, evocative and lovingly lingering and slow. Given our mixed and frequently embarrassing history with film, it’s possibly the best video the band has ever had. Bizarrely, it’s also perilously close to the dividing line between art and soft-core porn. … Read More

My first day back in the land of the lager louts started appropriately enough with a highly competitive indoor soccer game at the UEA. Despite the potentially lethal combination of having had no exercise for three weeks and being subject to the Reuter Diet (like the Atkins Diet in reverse), my concentration was good and my team won. Cue delirious … Read More