For those interested, here’s a return to the long(ish) blog, and there’s plenty of news contained within it. ——– While 2025 was a year of precisely no new releases, 2026 looks like it could be filled with them. Over the last year, I worked on a couple of pieces with a famous author (as yet, there no plans in place … Read More

It’s time once more for that unfashionable high on text, light on imagery, online blog. All hail the dead formats! ——— Since last I wrote, ‘the personal situation’ hasn’t improved (it remains dismal), but creatively it’s been an incredibly fruitful period. Additionally, as I hope has been obvious, the problems surrounding my social media and online presence have been very … Read More

Tim Bowness has today shared details of his new album Powder Dry. Set for release on 16th August 2024, the album will be Bowness’s first release on the Kscope label. The first single from Powder Dry is the propulsive Rock Hudson, a paranoid ode to online discourse. Produced and performed by Tim Bowness and mixed by his partner in no-man Steven Wilson, the song … Read More

Tim Bowness has signed to Kscope. Speaking about the signing and hinting at new music, Bowness said, “With its eclectic roster and open-minded and adventurous approach to music and presentation, Kscope seems like a logical home for what I’ve been coming up with of late. I’m excited to see where it all leads.” Tim appears alongside Nosound’s Giancarlo Erra on … Read More

Tim Bowness and Butterfly Mind are playing at the Winter’s End festival in Chepstow on Saturday, April 13th 2024. Tim and the band will be performing a selection of solo and no-man material. Further info / tickets

Teardrop Fall is the most obviously ‘Pop’ piece on Flowermouth and the most logical continuation of Loveblows & Lovecries to be found on the album. It started out as a straightforward acoustic guitar song of mine. Put through the no-man mangle it was transformed into that sonic contradiction, a melancholy electro stomper. Steven added a bridge after the chorus and … Read More

Taken from the archive collection Swagger, Mouth Was Blue was a key part of no-man’s late 1980s / early 1990s live sets, when we regularly played at the likes of The Marquee, 100 Club, Rock Garden, The Flag and The Boardwalk. It predates our signing to OLI by a couple of years and is a good representation of the band’s … Read More

Along with the 20 minute b-side Heaven Taste, Sweetheart Raw (1992) is the studio embodiment of no-man’s brief collaboration with the great Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri and Mick Karn. This started life as an acoustic song of mine (of which the chorus remains intact) that Steven developed further. The Karn groove is exceptional and I love the characteristically inventive Barbieri … Read More

Life Is Elsewhere (also known as Never Needing) was a song I wrote with Brian Hulse for Plenty in 1988. When Plenty split, no-man continued to play it live (alongside another Plenty track, Forest Almost Burning). When no-man were signed in the early 1990s, Life Is Elsewhere was one of the pieces the labels were most smitten by (Days In … Read More

Housekeeping is a comprehensive remastered collection of no-man’s output for the OLI label between 1990-1994. Featuring the band’s first two albums Loveblows & Lovecries (1993) and Flowermouth (1994), along with the singles compilation Lovesighs (1992), the deluxe 5CD Earbook also contains outtakes, alternate versions and the band’s sessions for BBC Radio from the period (which reveal a very different, more visceral, … Read More