"One of the country's most consistently admired
songwriters" - Folk Radio UK
"Simple, poetic reflections on life and love" -
The Guardian
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DATES AVAILABLE - 11 / 12 / 15 / 17 December 2017
Boo
is well known as one of the greatest songwriter performers in the
business, but incredibly, its been 7 years since Boo released his last
studio album of original material 'God
Bless The Pretty Things'. Not that he's been inactive, far
from it, the period has been the most productive of his career. Boo
wrote Radio Ballads for the BBC's Olympic and recent Child Migration
series. There has been a huge array of writing and producing with both
established and upcoming artists and passing something on to budding
writers via his much loved song-writing workshops. Boo spent three
years writing a daily blog which lead to podcast fun with that staff of
The WORD (RIP) and invitations to join Radio broadcasts such as The
Verb (BBC Radio 3) and a moment of personal satisfaction when his work
was included in the radio round up Pick Of The Week on BBC Radio 4. Boo
formed the duo State Of The Union with American guitarist Brooks
Williams and recorded and released two albums and an EP, live in the
studio with engineer Mark Freegard, the duo appeared on BBC1 TV Andrew
Marr show performing their cover of Pet Shop Boys Rent.
Boo
has written lyrics and played on over 30 new recordings by and with
other artists during the period including the acclaimed 2014 album
(Vagabond) and 2015 EP (Back The Dogs) with Scottish singer Eddi
Reader, Last Man Standing Ep (2015) with Kris Drever of Lau and Duke
Special. Reveal Records compiled the first document of his career to
date with a fine Best of compilation My
Name In Brackets and swiftly followed that with an album of
lost recordings found in a box! This album was Open which
received five star reviews and was number 5 in the Telegraph Albums of
The Year 2015.
His
new album Swimming
in Mercury was released this month to critical
acclaim.
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