c.2016 Alan Bonner and Aneek Thapar.
From The album "Night Music" Out 27.5.16
Lyrics  c.2016 Alan Bonner

A canary in a coal mine
A calm inside the storm
Just friends is fine and all
But that won’t keep me warm
And so the search continues
Another conquest on the tack
And if I never find the missing part
Will I get my money back?
 
Chorus
Before the half light
Before the day comes rushing in
When in the first light
Our story ends where it begins
The spell is broken
With the rising of the sun
With eyes wide open
No longer fooling anyone
 
Stop chasing shadows
Stop getting by on crumbs of love
Always hungry
For you can never get enough
So cut your losses
Find yourself a different shore
Still life in boxes
These roads don’t love you anymore
What are you waiting for?

Night Music

Before The Half Light 

c.2016 Alan Bonner and Aneek Thapar 
Single released 5.8.16
 Album  version available on the album "Night Music" out now.
 ISRC code GBDR81500025

Heaven Knows 

Heaven Knows (Radio Edit)

c.2008 Alan Bonner
From the album "Songs for the Heartshaped"

Songs for the Heartshaped

Narcissists Wet Dream

Narcissist's Wet Dream (from the album SONGS FOR THE HEARTSHAPED)

From  "Songs In The Key of Sea; The Galway Bay EP"
c.2018 Alan Bonner
Produced by Will O' Connor at Willow Sea Studios, Galway, Ireland 
Vocals and Piano Alan Bonner
Cello Niamh O' Connor

Songs In The Key of Sea : The Galway Bay EP

Augustine

From  "Songs In The Key of Sea : The Galway Bay EP"
c.2018 Alan Bonner
Produced by Will O' Connor at Willow Sea Studios, Galway, Ireland 
Vocals and Piano by Alan Bonner

Songs In The Key of Sea :The Galway Bay EP

The River

From  "Songs In The Key of Sea :The Galway Bay EP"
c.2018 Alan Bonner
Produced by Will O' Connor at Willow Sea Studios, Galway, Ireland 
Vocals and Organ Alan Bonner
Guitar and Additional Vocals Pa Reidy

Torch Song

Torch Song (Feat. Pa Reidy)

From "Songs In The Key of Sea; The Galway Bay EP"
c.2018 Alan Bonner
Produced by Will O' Connor at Willow Sea Studios, Galway, Ireland 
Vocals and Piano Alan Bonner
Cello Niamh O' Connor
Backing Vocals Tracy Bruen

Songs In The Key Of Sea : The Galway Bay EP

Carry You

Augustine Radio Edit. 
Full version on "Songs in the key of Sea" EP out April 6th 2018

Augustine (Radio Edit)

ALAN BONNER - Augustine (Radio Edit)

From the EP "Songs In The Key of Sea- The Galway Bay EP" Out 6th April 2018 on Kobalt Label Services

c.2018 Alan Bonner
Music & Lyrics Alan Bonner
Vocals Alan Bonner
Cello Niamh O' Connor
Backing Vocals Tracy Bruen
Produced by Will O'Connor

www.alanbonnermusic.com

Song in the Key of Sea: The Galway Bay EP

Tiergarten

ALAN BONNER - Tiergarten

Single by Alan Bonner distributed by AWAL/ Kobalt Label Services

Heartshaped

14/02/2019

ALAN BONNER - Heartshaped

“Alan Bonner has the means of a pauper but sings with the heart of a king”  is what one critic wrote of the English musician’s 2nd album Balladeer in 2013.

Since then his starving artist status is yet to change, but his postcode has. Recent years have seen him playing the bars of Berlin, tread the boards at Ronnie Scotts in London, top bills at music festivals in Italy, busk on street corners in Dublin and tour the USA.
In summer 2017 Bonner found himself in Galway on the west coast of Ireland making his fourth record Songs in the key of Sea – The Galway Bay EP. 

Recorded in a house on the remote island of Connemara, the record explores themes of love, loss, hope and healing. It is a love letter to absent friends and lost lovers, Understated and heartfelt, resilient and hopeful.

Recorded without bells and whistles, with Piano and Bonner’s distinctive vocals taking centre stage. The EP also features collaborations with Galway based artists Pa Reidy and Tracy Bruen lending their talents to the record with Willow Sea as Producer.

It is in stark contrast to his previous outing, 2016’s Night Music – a brooding Electronica- tinged collection of songs inspired by London and its nocturnal inhabitance with songs inspired by the disaffected creatures that take to the streets and the bars of the city when the sun goes down.

2018 sees the release of the EP with an extensive European tour in support of the record to follow.
Bonner has also founded legendary music nights in Berlin at Laksmi & Alaska Bar, attracting musicians and performers from all corners of the globe.

Prior to this, he has toured extensively across the UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia and the USA. He has received airplay on BBC6 Music and MTV Italy and appeared in Grazia, Gay Times, Attitude, Time Out London and RTE Ireland. Prior to Songs in the Key of Sea, he has released the albums Songs for the Heartshaped (2008) Balladeer (2012) and Night Music (2016) to favourable reviews.

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