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2005

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15th December
Boo is booked to play live sessions on the following BBC radio shows in 2006; Radio 4 - Loose Ends (Jan 28), Radio 2 - Johnnie Walker, Mark Radcliffe, 6 Music - Tom Robinson. Dates and times to follow.

26th August
Is This Music cover - 12245 Bytes Issue 17 of Is This Music? magazine includes a free CD with a Wild Strawberry track produced by Boo. Buy it here.

16th August
counting_down_the_days sleeve - 5880 Bytes CD2 of Natalie Imbruglia's new single 'Counting Down The Days' features the co-written 'What's The Good In Goodbye'. Released July 25th.

25th July
Boo has completed recordings for his 'covers of covers' album 'Harmonograph'. Tracks recorded [and original recording artistes] are as follows:-
  • Submarines [unreleased track by Space Echo]
  • Nameless [Eddi Reader]
  • Weatherman [not the Bible song]
  • Sugar On The Pill [Eddi Reader]
  • Girl Who Fell In Love With The Moon [Eddi Reader]
  • Slow Learner [Nashville Bluegrass Band]
  • Sleeping Beauty [Hepburn]
  • Butterfly (On A Pin) [Hepburn]
  • I Felt Her Soul Move Through Me [Eddi Reader]
  • Sing To Me [unreleased Rosalie Deighton co-write]
  • White Lies [unreleased Nicki Love track]
  • Mountains [Swan Dive]
  • Patience Of Angels [Eddi Reader]
  • Ontario [ from the forthcoming Eddi Reader album]
  • Hummingbird [Eddi Reader]
Final mixing and mastering are due to take place in August, for an October release.

18th June
mVine logo - 5481 Bytes Boo has signed a two-album deal with mVine recordings. One will be an album of new songs, one will be an album of songs Boo has written for others. The first album is due for release in late autumn, the second in the new year.

31st May
The Gods Are Shining sleeve - 5980 Bytes Popcorn sleeve - 5980 Bytes Wild Strawberry 'The Gods Are Shining' produced by Boo. Out now on Luna Records.
New album by Swan Dive, 'Popcorn And A Mama Who Loves Me Too', features co-written 'Photographs' out now on JVC Victor in Japan.

26th April
Stolen Moments sleeve - 5980 Bytes Alison Brown's new album, 'Stolen Moments', features 'Prayer Wheel'. Due May 10th.
New album by Swan Dive, 'Popcorn And A Mama Who Loves Me Too', features co-written 'Photographs'. Released May 21st on JVC Victor, Japan.
New tour dates online.

26th March
Femmes Celtes 2 sleeve - 7819 Bytes 'Femmes Celtes 2' compilation now available in France, features 'Geography' by Heidi Talbot.
New tour dates added.

23rd February
June Korea - 5809 Bytes Odds and Ends - 6245 Bytes 'June' by Swan Dive has been released in Korea as a two-albums-on-one-CD. Available from www.annyoung.com
The WFDU compilation album 'Odds and Ends: 10 Years of Crash on the Levee' features Boo and Eddi Reader performing an exclusive radio session version of 'The Birds are Leaving'.

19th February
Folk Awards 2005 - 7085 Bytes Kirsty McGee's 'Coffee Coloured Strings' is released as a single on Feb 28th. Produced by Boo, and featuring his backing vocals and harmonica.
'The Folk Awards 2005' features 'Coffee Coloured Strings' and the Boo-produced Eddi Reader's 'Willie Stewart / Mollie Rankin'.

2nd February
Sunday's Asian Tsunami benefit raised £1601 in total. Thanks to everybody involvedm and to all those who bought tickets.

22nd January
BooHewerdine.net present a festival in aid of the DEC Asian Earthquake Appeal. Features Sam Inglis, Rob W Jackson, Alias Grace, Eric Roche, Paul Goodwin, Boo, and Ezio & Booga. 30th Jan at CB2, Cambridge.