The Gloaming Hour (2009)The Gloaming Hour (2009)
After the 'flagship' that is 'Sound the Alarms' had set sale, we went and recorded some of the songs left over from the writing period for that album (The Proximity Plea, Touch Somebody). We re-recorded an old song first incarnated on Looking Up; It's In You and got Marc James from Verra Cruz to give it a scorching guitar solo. Then there is the Grow Dark suite that takes in the instrumental opening and closing tracks and the song itself which was the only finished song we wrote in 2008.
Tracklisting;
01. Moonday Rising
02. The Proximity Plea
03. Touch Somebody
04. It's In You
05. Grow Dark
06. Darker Still
Sound The Alarms (2008)
After two years of prolific gigging we were ready to make our first full studio album. The track-list takes in some older tracks that were on previous releases (Heaven Syndrome and Seek... from VII and Kicks... from Looking Up), but largely the album was made up a glut of songs written in from '05 to '07. We saved up and got top quality studios and a great team to make an album we are still all very proud of. At last we had something that summed us up. To date this album has shifted over 3000 copies.
01. Police Helicopter
02. Blacklines
03. Heaven Syndrome
04. Windscreen
05. There Is
06. Teenage Kicks (aren't enough)
07. Explode
08. Seek Ye First
09. Filth In, Filth Out (only on digital versions of the album)
10. Alarms
11. Hand
Middle of Somewhere (2007)
After we sold out of VII we didn't want to manufacture a re-run but decided to record a performance and mix it down to form a live album. We taped the Yeovil date of the 'Middle of Somewhere' tour in late 2006. The album is a good snapshot of where we were at between the organic but ambitious VII and what would become Sound The Alarms. Only 250 copies were pressed.
01. Dark Matter
02. Touch Somebody
03. Heaven Syndrome
04. Seek Ye First
05. Windscreen
06. Beginnings
07. There Is
08. Filth In, Filth Out
09. The Waiting
10. Teenage Kicks (Aren't Enough)
11. Alarms
VII (2005)
BOSH had settled into the five-piece line-up that would sustain us for the years to come and had written six strong songs together (the seventh was a last-minute add on to make up the seventh song; 'Don't Worry). We had been invited to join the fledgling Risen Records and this would become the label's second ever release. Recorded in various homes around Bournemouth and Somerset, this mini-album serves as a manifesto to what BOSH would be about for the coming season. All 600 CDs were sold in just over a year.
01. Seek Ye First
02. Dark Matter
03. Under the Sun
04. Heaven Syndrome
05. Don't Worry
06. Catharsis
07. The Waiting
Looking Up (2003)
In 2003 we were a three-piece who had been making home-recorded music for five years. We had five strong, if largely over-blown songs. We went to a project studio in the backstreets of Bournemouth and made this mini-album in three days. The songs would form the backbone of our live set for the next two years, and a couple would re-apppear in much later recordings. This was our last recording with Mark Tompkins as guitarist. Later CDR versions carried two live tracks recorded with the new five-piece line-up in 2004. Many hundreds of these were sold and given out.
01. House of Grace
02. Consecration
03. With A Smile
04. It's In You
05. Teenage Kicks (Aren't Enough)
06. Teenage Kicks (Aren't Enough) - Reprise
07. Seek Ye First (live)
08. Teenage Kicks (Aren't Enough) (live)
HOME RECORDINGS...
Seeking Wonder (2002)
A collection of 8-track recordings made at home mainly by Dave, Mark and Mike. The music is drenched in Pink Floyd influenced synth and guitar work, half the tracks are instrumental.
Something More (2001)
The first BOSH CDR. This featured the three piece line-up of Dave, Mark and Mike although the vast majority of the parts are played by Dave. All recorded and mixed on the newly bought digital 8-track.
Revolution (2000)
This was a cassette collection of 4-track recordings made by a collective of six musicians who were at the same school. The song forms were getting more adventurous and the first faith-based lyrics were creeping in.
High/Deep/Blue (1998)
This tape featured the first songs, sung very badly by Dave. The recordings are unbearably coarse, but we like to think that the first sparks of what was to come were beginning fizz. Largely it's unlistenable.
Excuse Me, We're Starting (1998)
Not including the 1996 recording of 'Blabbermouth', the studio recorded tune that kicked BOSH off, this is a sprawling and extremely lo-fi (not in a cool way) 4-track-recorded collection. Dave and Mike were just 14 and 11. The ideas show glimpses of something, but it's hard to make out what. Everything is instrumental.