Teardrop Fall video

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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

Mouth Was Blue video

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no-man Swagger

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

Sweetheart Raw video

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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 video

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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

no-man boxset and Swagger

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no-man Housekeeping

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

Tim Bowness Live 2024

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Tim Bowness, along with his new band Butterfly Mind – Matt Stevens (Fierce & The Dead), John Jowitt (IQ, Frost), Andy Edwards (IQ, Frost, Robert Plant) and Rob Groucutt (Rain) – will be performing solo and no-man songs at two shows in January 2024. The first show is at Worcestershire’s premier music venue 45Live on Saturday January 20 2024. Doors … Read More

Tim Bowness live 2023

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Tim Bowness and his band (including Andy Edwards, Rob Groucutt, John Jowitt and Matt Stevens) will be playing two co-headline shows with Sweet Billy Pilgrim on Friday 22 September 2023 in Aylesbury and Thursday 21st December 2023 in Guildford. Tickets are on-sale now.

Tim live YouTube interview 17 February

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Tim is being interviewed for the Gas Masks & Hand Grenades YouTube channel, with the interview going out live on 17 Feb 2023 at 10AM EST / 3PM GMT. Topics to be discussed include the beginning of no-man, Burning Shed, Plenty and Tim’s solo music. Listen live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8_Y3R3DcTY

Tim to guest with Rocking Horse Music Club

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Tim will be appearing at the Rocking Horse Music Club album launch in March at Trading Boundaries, Sheffield Green in East Sussex. On Friday 17th March 2023 Tim will be singing So Little Left with Rocking Horse Music Club as part of their album launch. On Saturday 18th March 2023 Tim will be performing a half hour set (with Brian … Read More

Tim Bowness Prog For Peart festival July 8 2023

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Tim is performing at this year’s Prog For Peart festival, which takes place on the weekend of July 7 and 8 2023 at The Northcourt in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The charity weekend festival raises money to help combat Glioblastoma Multiforme, the rare form of brain cancer that Rush drummer Neil Peart died from. Tim headlines on the Saturday, July 8th 2023, … Read More