01. Police Helicopter |
Live at the Pier Theatre (2010) We officially launched our flagship album 'Sound the Alarms' with a show at the Theatre at the end of Bournemouth Pier. About 500 friends, family and supporters turned out and made it an incredible night. We had the performance recorded and mixed for what we thought might turn into a live DVD at some stage. Instead, the videos went on to youtube (www.youtube.com/daveofbosh) and have served us well for showing folk what we do. Here are six tracks from the night that grabbed us as stand-out performances. We love the energy and atmosphere captured here, and hope you will too. |
01. Police Helicopter |
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. Dark Matter |
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. Seek Ye First |
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. House of Grace |
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. |
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.