"One of
the country’s most consistently admired songwriters" - Folk Radio UK
"Simple,
poetic reflections on life and love" - The Guardian
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 will be released in 2017.
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