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Eh Mamma / Wave Hello / Down To The Sea / Five-O / Sometimes / Butterfly’s Dream / Monkey God
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Promotional video for Tim Booth’s solo single release Down To The Sea.
Down To The Sea
Release Name: | Down To The Sea |
Artist Name: | Tim Booth |
Release Date: | 28th June 2004 |
Format: | Video Single |
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Promotional video for Tim Booth’s solo single release Down To The Sea.
Promotional video for Tim Booth’s solo single release Down To The Sea.
A single released from Tim Booth’s 2004 solo album Bone.
7″ single – SANSE279 – Down To The Sea / Bring It On
CD single – SANXS279 – Down To The Sea / Remember Me
Release Name: | Down To The Sea |
Artist Name: | Tim Booth |
Release Date: | 28th June 2004 |
UK Chart: | 68 |
Format: | Studio Single |
Label: | Sanctuary Records |
Catalogue: | 7" single - SANSE279; CD single - SANXS279 |
Produced: | Lee Muddy Baker |
Engineered: | Lee Muddy Baker |
Mixed: | Lee Muddy Baker |
Additional Musicians: | Lisa Lindley Jones, Kevin Kerrigan |
Recorded: | The L.A.B; Mastered at The Town House |
A single released from Tim Booth’s 2004 solo album Bone.
A single released from Tim Booth’s 2004 solo album Bone.
Broadcast live on BBC3 from The New Tent at Glastonbury
Discover / Down To The Sea / Wave Hello / Eh Mamma / What Goes On / Sometimes / Dance Of The Bad Angel / Bone / Butterfly’s Dream / Monkey God / Fall In Love
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Discover / Down To The Sea / Five-O / Wave Hello / Eh Mamma / Sometimes / Dance Of The Bad Angel / Bone / What Goes On / Butterfly’s Dream / Monkey God / What Goes On (second version) / Fall In Love
Lee Baker
Arriving in Bedford, you could be forgiven you’d found yourself in Brian Potterworld. The Esquires looked like the Phoenix Club complete with paper sign on the white board above the door advertising Tim’s gig. Once inside however, the venue wasn’t as bad as we’d feared, a good size stage and a reasonable sized crowd in.
Immediately it was noticeable compared to the other shows that the audience now having heard Bone would improve the atmosphere and crowd reaction. Discover was greeted with cheers and a cock-up at the beginning of Down To The Sea was laughed off by the band and appreciated by the crowd.
This wasn’t just a crowd looking for James songs either. The introduction of Five-O didn’t create the knowing response of previous shows. The version was rockier than previous versions and Lee added some backing vocals in the middle as well, showing the band had worked on the song and, as Tim had said, gone to a higher level even since the previous gigs.
Wave Hello and Eh Mamma were performed fast and frenetically, almost on the edge of collapsing under their own pace, but all the better for the power of the performance all five were putting in.
There was a slight lull during Sometimes and Dance Of The Bad Angel as both songs seemed to have been slowed down from previous outings and it did disturb the pace and energy that had been built up. This however was brought back with a stretched out version of Bone which lasted over eight minutes and featured some gorgeous sax work from Robin.
The real highlight of the show was the surprise Tim had promised, a cover version of the Velvet Underground standard What Goes On. An almost thrash version, very different from the original, of the track brought more people down to dance. Keeping the pace up the band then blasted their way through Butterfly’s Dream and a manic version of Monkey God to complete the main set. People were dancing, shouting, cheering, a fantastic reaction to a set of songs they had in the most never heard or just got acquainted with.
Milo then came on stage to perform a stand up routine which involved phoning up a local kebab shop, pretending first to have gone blind after eating a kebab and then to be a Virgin Radio DJ offering a prize for answering three questions. After stringing the poor guy along for two questions, the third “question” was a simple “fuck off” which brought the house down.
Unsure how to follow that, the band came back on and did another different semi-improvised take on What Goes On and then finished the set with a beautiful rendition of Fall In Love for which the crowd simply shut up and listened.
A real success then, a reasonable crowd for a barely advertised warm-up gig and one that was prepared to both listen to the slower songs and getting involved with the faster songs, a great performance by the band and the added bonus of Milo’s stand-up. If you haven’t got tickets for the tour yet, go and get some.
Released on Tim Booth’s solo album Bone.
Song: | Down To The Sea |
Released: | 14th June 2004 |
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Where To Get: | Tim Booth: Bone |
Full promo in card sleeve
Wave Hello / Bone / Monkey God / Redneck / Love Hard / Discover / Fall In Love / Falling Down / Down To The Sea / In The Darkness / Eh Mamma / Careful What You Say
Release Name: | Bone |
Artist Name: | James |
Release Date: | June 2004 |
UK Chart: | |
Format: | Promo Album |
Label: | Sanctuary |
Catalogue: | SANPR268 |
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Full promo in card sleeve
Full promo in card sleeve
Tim Booth’s first solo album.
Wave Hello / Bone / Monkey God / Redneck / Love Hard / Discover / Fall In Love / Falling Down / Down To The Sea / In The Darkness / Eh Mamma / Careful What You Say
Release Name: | Bone |
Artist Name: | Tim Booth |
Release Date: | 14th June 2004 |
UK Chart: | - |
Format: | Studio Album |
Label: | Sanctuary Records |
Catalogue: | SANPR268 |
Produced: | Lee Muddy Baker |
Engineered: | Lee Muddy Baker |
Mixed: | Lee Muddy Baker |
Additional Musicians: | Lisa Lindley Jones, Lee Muddy Baker, Kevin Kerrigan, Marjorie Ashenden, David Naylor |
Recorded: | Recorded At – The L.A.B; Mastered At – The Town House |
“This CD was made very casually over 3 years. Most of the songs were recorded on a laptop, in my bedroom overlooking the sea in Brighton. Initially written with KK, later they were produced and re-played by Lee Muddy Baker in a studio he hand built. He plays 90% of the instruments, even did the beautiful sleeve artwork, dammit! After “James” I had no intention of making my own record. Nope, I was gonna make music for others to sing. Let them interface with the “Music Business ” while I would just do the fun creative part. Don’t know what happened, think it was Baker’s fault; something about a labour of love and the songs being too good to waste. Yeah, I know the record’s brilliant but now we have the task of outing it and that is never an easy thing to do at the best of musical times. So here are some songs from the heart, hope you enjoy.” – Tim Booth, amazon.co.uk, June 2004
“This CD was made very casually over 3 years. Most of the songs were recorded on a laptop, in my bedroom overlooking the sea in Brighton. Initially written with KK, later they were produced and re-played by Lee Muddy Baker in a studio he hand built. He plays 90% of the instruments, even did the beautiful sleeve artwork, dammit! After “James” I had no intention of making my own record. Nope, I was gonna make music for others to sing. Let them interface with the “Music Business ” while I would just do the fun creative part. Don’t know what happened, think it was Baker’s fault; something about a labour of love and the songs being too good to waste. Yeah, I know the record’s brilliant but now we have the task of outing it and that is never an easy thing to do at the best of musical times. So here are some songs from the heart, hope you enjoy.” – Tim Booth, amazon.co.uk, June 2004
Careful What You Say / Discover / Down To The Sea / Five-O / Wave Hello / Eh Mamma / Sometimes / Love Hard / Dance Of The Bad Angel / Bone / Butterfly’s Dream / In The Darkness / Monkey God / Fall In Love
Lee Baker
review by brd
It’s packed with people and steaming hot in the Water Rats Theatre tonight, as is the band tonight when they leap into the closing set of Tim Booth & the Individuals mini-trial tour. The gig is edgier and harder than last night’s Cardiff outing, with one less acoustic song (Laid) and the addition of the powerful guitar driven show stopper Booth and the Bad Angel song Butterfly’s Dream.
The set is also more quickly paced, with shorter pauses between songs, and in one instance going straight from one song into another (I think it was Wave Hello and Eh Mama). This allows the band to better build up the momentum of the set as well as maintain it. That said, you don’t get as great an opportunity to witness Tim Booth’s budding career as a stand up comedian (truly quick wit that he is). As with last night’s Cardiff show, the band take good natured verbal shots at each other, and at one point Tim in mock exasperation asks keyboardist Lisa and songwriting partner/guitarist Lee to stop talking and shut up.
Set highlights tonight include upcoming singles Wave Hello, which just burns tonight, and Down to the Sea, as well sexual obsession ode In The Darkness, and older songs Dance Of The Bad Angel and Five-O. The audience responds well to the nine new songs they hear tonight, welcoming them with an open mind and deservedly quickly embraces them. As Sometimes is recognized, the audience starts singing along. The room belongs to Tim tonight.
A minor quibble, having had the pleasure of hearing the band two nights in a row, is that at times the instrumentation of the songs is too dense. At some points, say at the beginning or even the middle of a song, a simpler approach would provide a more powerful delivery due to the aural contrast. This is the case with Five-O in particular. Oh and did I say the set was TOO SHORT?
I also wonder if the new singles will be re-recorded prior to release as they have apparently changed tremendously since they were introduced live acoustically last fall after being recorded for the upcoming CD. With the other songs in the live set, it would be a tremendous shame if the powerful live delivery of the new songs (and the old ones too) would be lost to the general listening public (in particular those of us located in North America). A nice consolation would be to include soundcheck or live recordings as a Bone bonus disc and/or b-sides. A dvd single with live tracks would be great too.
When encore Fall In Love unfolds far too soon in the night, the audience is just swept off its feet. It feels as if you can reach up in the air and grab the emotion in your hands. The room is in suspended animation as the song ends, there is a moment of silence as everyone holds their breath, and the empty space quickly fills with applause. Damn, its over. What an amazing performance.
Back on my side of the Atlantic as I write this, I know it was worth every penny and effort to see these two Tim Booth shows and the birth of a new act. Thanks very much Tim. I can’t wait for the new single and CD. If Tim does a show within walking, train or driving distance of you this year, don’t think twice about seeing him.
Careful What You Say / Laid / Down To The Sea / Five-O / Wave Hello / Redneck / Sometimes / Love Hard / Dance Of The Bad Angel / Bone / In The Darkness / Monkey God / Fall In Love
Lee Baker
review by brd
There was a storm outside, endless rain, as we meandered from central Cardiff to Cardiff Bay in search of the Engine Room, the venue for tonight’s third stop of Tim Booth & the Individuals sea to sea mini tour. We didn’t get struck by lightning but got drenched as we sought and gained refuge in a nearby pub for a pint, some grub and more importantly some warmth.
As it would turn out, we experienced the literary construction of prophetic fallacy, as we would shortly be swept away by the flood of excellent music.
The show got off on a humorous note with Tim congratulating us as being amongst the lucky few ticket holders who had been vetted and let in due to our purported excellent hearing skills. To be trueful, I was oblivious to the size of the audience, as I was transfixed by Tim’s outstanding performance and by my close proximity to centre stage. Anyway, this good humour and relaxed attitude continued through the far too short night, with a real rapport quickly struck with the audience and between the band itself. At one point, Tim in his role of standup comic, asks for the venue’s security staff to help out a patron who keeps on shouting “protect me” (poor disoriented bastard didn’t know he was over ten years too late for that gig).
The variety in the music delivered through the night was impressive. The new songs ranged from the powerful guitar rock of In The Darkness (centring on sexual obsession), to the pub rock of soon to be released first single Wave Hello, the complex vocal trio presented in Down to the Sea (quite a different arrangement to that done in Tim’s performance with 1 Giant Leap last year on Dom Joly) and the jazz rock workout of cd title track Bone, featuring bassist Robin on alto sax and acoustic guitar. The latter song reminded me of the trademark sound of classic band Traffic.
Lyrically, the new songs are rich and like all of Tim’s writing, their complexity will likely fully reveal meaning when allowed the luxury of repeated close listening (this being Tim Booth, it wouldn’t suffice to read the lyrics as you have to hear the inflections in his voice to grasp the true meaning). Standouts in this category include the aforementioned Bone’s musings on life; Monkey God, which discusses how existence and spirituality are all interconnected; and Redneck touches on celebrity and mentions the Hindu God Rama in the chorus.
The Individuals are an outstanding band. Drummer Milo is a powerful rhythm keeper; the flexibility of multi instrumentalist Robin is a real bonus to the band, spending 60% of the night playing bass and the rest playing guitars and saxophone as well as the occasional backing vocal; songwriting partner Lee “Muddy” Baker is a strongly competent guitarist and bassist, constantly adding backing vocals and lots of cheek to the proceedings; and then there is diminutive keyboardist/flautist Lisa “Xan” and her amazing atmospheric vocals. She is the secret ingredient to the Individuals, truly providing the extra elements to the older songs which sets them apart. This is particularily evident to her world music vocal colourings in Booth and the Bad Angel’s Dance of the Bad Angels, and her contribution to the vocal trio which closes James’ Sometimes. Not enough of her voice is heard through the night.
All is not perfect through the night, as after all Tim Booth and the Individuals are human (or are they?). Guitar tuning is a bit off in the otherwise amazing rendition of Five-O, Sometimes could use a touch of acoustic guitar throughout as it approaches piano lounge music at times, the guitar in In The Darkness should be heavily distorted to give it the edge it needs and the breath taking set closer Fall in Love needs a bit of synthesizer as the melodica makes it sound like a campfire song. Finally, and most important, the set was TOO SHORT! We should have heard at least another couple of songs from the upcoming CD. Nine of the twelve songs was not enough. Greedy bastard, eh?
At the end of the night, there is definitely a new colour in the musical rainbow: Tim Booth and the Individuals. Don’t miss the opportunity to see something amazing unfolding. Next time there is a Tim Booth show, bring a few of your friends and an open mind with you.
Careful What You Say / Discover / Down To The Sea / Five-O / Wave Hello / Eh Mamma / Sometimes / Love Hard / Dance Of The Bad Angel / Bone / Butterfly’s Dream / Monkey God / Fall In Love
Lee Baker
review by Shooting My Mouth Off
“James may be dead but Tim is live & kicking. Long live Tim”
The last time Tim Booth set foot on stage in Liverpool both he and the members of James were greeted by an adoring crowd of 5,000 at the “Summer Pops” Festival at the impressive Kings Dock Venue. Those in the know that night knew that they might be witnessing the end of an era. Their last single, “Getting away with it (all messed up)” had just crashed out of the top 50. What proved to be their final album “Pleased to meet you”, which Tim considered to be their finest work since “Laid”, had failed to make the coveted top 10. Reasons to sulk and under-perform ? Not likely – the performance James put on that night was truly a revelation and left many a diehard fan (including this author) quite literally in tears
Tonight, a much smaller (300?) but no less appreciative Liverpool crowd, witnessed something just as special. Tim Booth making his first tentative steps, together with his new band, back onto the music scene. He’s been swimming with dolphins and holding alternative dance classes during his two and half year sabbatical from the live stage. Within seconds, however, it doesn’t even feel like he’s been away. “Look, do us a favour and don’t be the first stupid fucker to ask for Sit Down”, pleads Tim as he walks on stage. “Tim, do Sit Down” retorts some wag from the front of the crowd. “Typical fuckin scousers” replies Tim. And with that the tone is set.
Totally at ease, in spite of this being just their 4th gig together, we are treated to a quite stunning performance. The set, not surprisingly, mainly features tracks from his soon to be released album “Bone”. What is amazing is, in spite of these being totally unheard of tracks, just how well the audience receives them. Perhaps this is testimony to the quality of the songs and the superb musicians Tim has put together in his new band. “I’m gonna call them The Individuals” Tim tells us . “‘cos they’re so fuckin good at doin their own thing”
Personal highlights of the new stuff have to be “Careful what you say” which opens the set, “eh Mamma”, “Bone” and an absolutely stunning “Monkey God” which closes the main set. Add to this truly breathtaking versions of “Five-O” and “Sometimes” from the James catalogue, as well as “Dance of the Bad Angel” and “Butterfly’s Dream” from his first solo venture. On returning for his encore, Tim request that he needs the crowd to “..shut the fuck up for this one” and proceeds to serenade us with an awesome rendition of “Fall in Love”.
“These are just the warm up gigs”, Tim informs us halfway through the show. “If you like what you hear, we’ll be back for more in the summer. After you’ve bought the CD of course!”
I for one cannot wait to get hold of the CD. Judging by the crowds reaction tonight, I am not the only one. Tim Booth will always find a welcome in Liverpool, especially after performances like this. James may be dead, but Tim lives on !