Hi. My name is Adam. My surname is pronounced bow-cher, like voucher. Americans seem to have the most trouble understanding this. I hate band/artist biographies written in the third person, when they're clearly written by the artist (who is usually doing the website and all the promotion too). I myself have been guilty of this in the past, but no more! 

If you want a general idea of what I do, it's acoustic solo singer/songwriter in approach but think Billy Bragg meets Hamell On Trial. If you don't know who Hamell On Trial is, then shame on you! Basically, I play mostly fast up-tempo acoustic music, with shouty punk style vocals. Oh yeah, and I'm orignally from Bournemouth but now living in London.

In The Beginning...

I grew up listening to rock bands like Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Skin and Pearl Jam and played guitar in a few bands up until the age of 20, when my group at the time (featuring my buddy Paul Saunders, ex-Fat Arnold/Only Child) fizzled out. We never amounted to much, but had a load of fun playing, which I guess is the point. Maybe you were lucky enough to see us at one of our few gigs... As far as I know, no photos exist of us as a band... only some 4-track rehearsal recordings that I insisted on making.

I half-heartedly tried to find other musicians to start a new band, but nothing worked. Met some really weird people and have some odd stories to tell, but that's about it. Around this time I started writing full songs for the first time and sang (badly) on the demos. The original intention was to get someone else in to sing. I never got round to it though. It didn't seem right to have someone else sing my lyrics and I guess I was too scared to make contact with any other musicians.

So, in November of 2002 I tested the waters of life without a band and released a CD recorded on my trusty cassette 4 track. Cunningly titled '4-track demos', it was primarily aimed at getting gigs, but was also given out to people through this website. People from as far a-field as Canada, America & Norfolk asked for copies. Isn't that nice?

Many gigs follow... broken strings... new songs...

I released my first album, 'Growing Up And Getting Out' on 2nd January 2004. Again, recorded by myself on my updated home studio set-up (Studio Zu). Much better than the first cd, though the singing is still quite ropey. Only a few copies are left and I have no plans to make anymore once they're gone.

In June 2005, after a rather shit recording session at a local studio, I put out a limited run freebie cd called 'A Concert for Archie'. This cd was a stopgap collection of odds and ends, including two of the tracks from the shit studio session. People in Bournemouth seem to like free stuff. They don't seem to like paying for things though. This was the first release on my own label, zu-bean records.

I tried again to record my second album and booked a session at local Bournemouth studio, Active Music. On June 9th 2005 I recorded 9 songs, 8 of which made it onto the finished cd. The missing track was ' Hurts To Say Goodbye' which just didn't work out and I was too tight on time to fix/re-record it. The album was recorded in about 8 hours and mixed in about 6 a week later. Useless trivia fact #65: I listened to a lot of Operation Ivy, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat & early Green Day on the way to the sessions. Nice.

The album is the 3rd release on my own label, zu-bean records (Also home to Bournemouth poet & quirk-master The Poet Hi-Ho & lo-fi troubadour Ian Lory). It's also the first fully pressed/mastered, bells and whistles cd on zu-bean records.

Future plans include recording new material at some point, more gigging and more zu-bean releases. I just recorded/released Hi-Ho's 3rd album and a new ep (the tenth release on zu-bean records). 

That brings us up to date. I've just relocated to London. Isn't that nice!