Yes, it's true! Our much loved flagship album is yours for as much as you want to pay. All 11 tracks can be your for nothing (or a gift if you like). Just follow the 'Pay What You Want' button - please spread the word, friends!

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Our Epic tour film.

As the summer draws to an end we can look back at the best one of our time as a band. We have met many amazing people and had some of the best gigs ever.

Matt is now in his Stateside position at worship school and is loving it. We miss him, but we have the wonderful Felix Page more than filling in for him while he's away. WELCOME TO THEE FELIX.

It's our great joy to announce our brand new studio EP, 'The Gloaming Hour'. It has six tracks...

01. Moonday Rising
02. The Proximity Plea
03. Touch Somebody
04. It's In You (featuring Marc James of Verra Cruz)
05. Grow Dark
06. Darker Still

It's a step on from Sound the Alarms, both artistically and in terms of sound quality. We hope you will enjoy it.

You can get it right now for just £4 from here...
http://www.risen-records.c..om/thegloaminghour

See you soon I hope!

Dave

July has seen some great gigs. We had enormous pleasure doing 'An Audience with Bosh' at the Bourne Beat Hotel with Hope FM. The set we played was very different from our usual fare being partly acoustic and partly electric. The turn out was very encouraging. We really feel happy playing in Bournemouth now, but this wasn't always the case. Thanks to the amazing support of Hope FM, we have grown something of a following locally which is humbling. 

I was sitting in on Grant's key-recording session with Uncle Steve a few days ago realising that one of the most talented musicians I've ever heard is in this band. I felt very very blessed. He truly is an incredible player, and with Uncle Steve's gentle encouragement, he just kept getting better and better as the takes progressed. 

May is a lovely month. And this one finds us beginning a new record at Soundlocker Studios in Lancing, Sussex. We have begun four tracks. We hope to have the EP ready for June or July, but we won't rush it. The new recordings are tinged with blues, funk and blissed out post-rock. It's certainly a compliment to Sound the Alarms. 

James is married now, which is wonderful. 

We are excited to be doing the festival rounds this year. We've already headlined at Grace 2009, which was electric, and we've still got Pentecost/Nth, Somerton Arts, Creation (and it's roadshow's) and Greenbelt to go. Hopefully we'll cross paths with you at some point. 

Come the Autumn we'll be re-thinking everything about who and what we are, but for now, we're all really content and the feeling in the band is very positive and we're up for the best summer of them all. 

X Dave X

Well, we're officially off our break now, and back into being a band. There's not masses to tell of really other than we're gigging again and putting together a really good looking summer schedule.

We took part in a live worship album recording the other day with our friends at Grace Festival in Glastonbury/Street. It was a really special time and we are looking forward to hearing the results of it.

James had his Stag day last Saturday which involved paint-balling, go-karting and lots of food. We had a great time, and we're looking forward to his wedding to Nat in April.

Writing sessions are going well with many new songs being born.

Check out our little video rounding up 2008 below entitled 'B-Roads', it's on our youtube at youtube.com/daveofbosh

See you soon!

Midway through our break and we're beginning to make plans again. We have decided to put together a compilation of material from the last 10 years. The album will be called 'Connections 2000 - 2009' and will feature...

1. Studio Recordings from Something More (2001) Seeking Wonder (2002) Looking Up (2003) VII (2005) There Is Charity Single (2006) Sound the Alarms (2008) and NEW MATERIAL

2. Live Recordings from 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 and maybe this year

3. Possibly some re-mixes

We have booked studio time at the world famous Rockfield Studio's in Wales. This is the place where Queen recorded Bohemian Rhapsody and Oasis recorded their first 3 albums. We have got some 'downtime' between Simple Minds and Stereophonics in May, so as long as some bigger boys don't come along, we should be fine.

We are playing live next week, which will be a lovely thing. My amazing wife, Jess, is launching her own nonprofit called 'I*EAT' which will work with people with eating disorders and do prevention work in schools. We are playing at the launch party at Starbucks. Free coffee from the lovely multi-national too! It'll be nice to blow off the cobwebs.

I have been writing new songs with Dave Evans this week. We now have four main ideas for future BOSH projects (not including the finished ones to go into Rockfield with in May). I have yet to play them to the boys, but then we aren't 100% sure what the situation will be post-summer. Mike is going to uni by the look of things, either in Exeter or Bath, so not too far away compared to Matt who is off to the States for 3 months in the autumn. We have decided to concentrate on recording from the autumn onwards and so will be gigging less regularly. However, we will be out and about a fair bit in the summer months, taking in a few festivals and old haunts. We are hoping that Connections will be out nearer the end of the year. We want to make it really special and represent the last decade properly, our development from bedroom experiments to Rockfield and everything in-between. After that it will be a case of playing it by ear and seeing how our recording project goes and what we end up with. Probably a proper new album by the middle of next year (we may find we've already started making it if we use what we've been doing with Dave).

Anyway, we hope that you are well and that wherever you are, life is not too hard on you. Sadly we lost one of the engineers that worked on Sound the Alarms a few weeks ago in a car accident. He was a lovely, lovely chap and made recording a pleasure and a joy. He will be missed by all who worked with him at Conversion Studios. He was only our age and is survived by a wife and two young daughters. It's tragic, and it makes you stop and take stock of things. So, when we say 'take care', we really mean it.

Take Care.

Dave

January 2009

Happy new year to you and may it bring much money, stability and happiness!!!

We are now on an official 'break'. We have downed tools until the spring and are concentrating on family and jobs. James is getting married in April, Mike is applying for university, Dave is helping his wife launch a company, Grant is zipping around the country on business and Matt is making plans to go to the States in the Autumn whilst settling into a new job.

We are writing new ideas on our own at the moment but have a little stock of new songs that will probably form the basis for a follow up to 'Sound the Alarms'. We may hit the studio as early as the summer to start work on it. We have no idea when it'll be ready, but hopefully sometime in 2010, so that's not too long now is it!

In the mean time, we recommend that you keep a keen eye out for our very good friend Tom Whitmans debut album. It'll be out on Risen Records in the next month or so and it's called 'The Breaking In of Light'. Mike produced it and played a lot of the instruments, while Grant added some beautiful keys. Dave did the artwork too, so it really is something close to our hearts. You will love it!

Anyway, that's all for now. We will be hitting the road again in the spring, so we'll hopefully see you later!

B O S H

It's a cold friday night, there is nothing on the tv aside from some vintage Clarkson.

Jeremy Clarkson's extreme machines, very interesting. Older gentlemen with trains, delightful.

The festive season has well and truly taken hold, amidst the winter fuel of mulled wine and mince pies there are those nostalgic decorations that rear their wondrous heads rubbing their little eyes as daylight breaks in following their 11 month hibernation in the loft, I love them. Tomorrow I get to see my old friends.

Tomorrow is also our last gig of the year. Off we go to Teignmouth. First things first though, a band breakfast at our favourite Turkish coffee lounge, Baraca on charminster high street. Then we will ride, I for one cannot wait.

It has been an eventful year so far, gigs up and down the country, a great album, some radio shows, some tv show, gigs in bookstores, gigs in churches, gigs in clubs, gigs in pubs, gigs outdoors, gigs indoors, no gigs in caravans or trailers this year though.

It has been great to make some new friends and gig with old friends. 2008 truly has been a great year.

We are all excited to see what 2009 brings.

Right, back to Clarkson for some extreme machine fun.

Have a wonderful Christmas and don't blind yourself to the real reason behind it. The celebration of the birth of a man who changed the world as we know it, both here and on the other side of life! Jesus Christ.