I recorded these two tracks - and countless others - as a teenager in late 2006/07, layering up the sounds one-by-one using a single SM58, and a pair of tiny computer speakers.

Writing, Performance, Production: Bo Keeney

Can I Borrow Your Towel (2006)

I Don't Want Nobody (2007)

In 2009, I signed with Universal, earning the resources to produce an original full-length album. 
 
I had in album in mind that would transition from genre to genre with each song, and within the songs themselves.

Given the complex nature of the project, I found myself producing the album, and performing most of the instrumental parts, with some exceptions.

Despite this, it was an intensely collaborative project, including close collaboration with Grammy-winning producers Jimmy Hogarth and Cameron Craig, and a mixing apprenticeship with legendary Grammy-winner Jeremy Wheatley.

Due to conflicts of interest, the project never saw the light of day - it still brings back mixed feelings, but feels important to include.

ALBUM CREDITS:

All tracks:

Writing, Production, Arrangement, all instruments: Bo Keeney
Management: Will Frank 
Associate Producer: Jimmy Hogarth 
Mix: Jeremy Wheatley 
Recording Engineer (some sessions): Tim Bran 
Recording Engineer (strings): Cameron Craig
Strings homework & assistance - Audrey Riley

Additional instrumentation:

I got a letter:

Sam Dixon - Live bass
Tammi jo williams - Backing vocals
Brian Henry - talkbox keyboard

Golden Telephone:

Son Of Dave - Harmonica
Jim Hunt - Saxophone(s)
Tammi Jo Williams - Backing vocals
Members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra - Strings

Suburban Life:

Ian Thomas - Drums
Sam Dixon - Bass

Over At Your House:

Felix Bloxsom - Drums (copy)
Sam Dixon - Additional bass
Andy Kennedy - Sax
Anders Kallmark - Additional synth programming

Give Her What She Wants:

(name unknown) - Live piano copy
Members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra - Strings 
Mary Pearce - Backing vocals
Sam Dixon - Bass

Up In Smoke:

BJ Cole - Pedal steel
Tammi Jo Williams - Backing vocals

ATM:

Members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra - Strings
BJ Cole - Pedal steel

Jump the Gun:

(name unknown) - Additional hammond organ
Sam Dixon - Slap bass
Felix Bloxsom - Additional live drums

Don't You Worry:

Additional instrumentation: 
 Robbie Fraser - Trumpet

That 45:

Members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra - Strings 
Kanan Keeney - Additional Guitar
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Maria Keeney - Additional backing vocals on 'Suburban Life', 'Give Her What She Wants, 'Jump The Gun', and 'Dont You Worry'

Don't You Worry (2011)

Jump The Gun (2011)

Up In Smoke (2011)

Give Her What She Wants (2011)

Golden Telephone (2011)

I Got A Letter (2011)

I released 'Don't You Worry' in late 2012 - my first legitimate release as a Universal artist. 

The title track was one of many attempts at creating a recording that transformed from one genre into another - in this case, from mariachi, to modern rock, to electro, to drum and bass, classic rock, and finally to a sort of gospel dubstep. 

The other two tracks, 'Ambulance' and 'Motivation', were put together in the weeks leading up to release, in a shipping container on a remote industrial estate I'd converted into a project studio.

'Powerful Mellow' was created in the same period, as a free download to accompany the EP. 


Writing, Production, Arrangement, all instruments: Bo Keeney

Management: Will Frank 


Additional instrumentation: 

Robbie Fraser - Trumpet (on 'Don't You Worry')
Maria Keeney - Backing vocals (on 'Don't You Worry')
Jeremy Wheatley - Mix (on 'Don't You Worry') 
Andy Bradfield - Mix (on 'Ambulance' and 'Motivation')
Tim Bran - Recording Engineer (some sessions, on 'Don't You Worry')
Dick Beetham - Mastering ('on 'Don't You Worry', 'Ambulance', and 'Motivation')

Motivation (2012)

Ambulance (2012)

Don't You Worry (2012)

Powerful Mellow (2012)

In 2013, as I focused on live performances, I updated tracks from my unreleased Universal album to prepare them for release. 

'Jump The Gun' was a natural fit for the project, and updating it gave me a chance to explore contemporary sounds and styles I hadn't grappled with before. 

Writing, Performance, Production: Bo Keeney 

Mastering: Dick Beetham

Jump The Gun (2013 Rework)

I recorded this live clip at Spiritual Caipirinha Bar in Camden - it was my favourite venue to play between 2013-15, with a small, intimate stage in the middle of the crowd.

Jump The Gun (Live Clip, 2015)

After leaving Universal in 2014, and releasing 'Seven Eleven', I went through a lot of changes.
 
As I found myself becoming more interested in new musical projects, and less in being a solo artist, I still felt eager to pull something together to close the chapter. 
 
'BBQ Sauce' was written and recorded in a series of unlikely environments - including a series of hostels, and a cavernous, abandoned commercial laundry.
 
The project finally came to a close as some of my other musical projects began to fully take shape.  


Writing, Performance, Production: Bo Keeney 

Visual design: Caterina Schmitt

Mastering: Pete Maher

BBQ Sauce (2016)

'Seven Eleven' was written through 2012/13, and recorded in early 2014.

I put the EP together in the aftermath of a long break-up with Universal, and it represented my first opportunity to put out new writing after a 2-year struggle over existing material.

I'd wanted to capture the feeling of early childhood in 1990's California - nostalgia, warmth, and early memories - and overlap it with themes of toxic masculinity, waste and excess.

Writing, Performance, Production: Bo Keeney

Additional percussion: Ben DeVries and Jake Williams

Additional guitar on Track 2, 'Seven Eleven': Billy Adamson

Mastering: Pete Maher

EP cover treatments: Colin G Cooper

Long Long Summertime (2014)

Seven Eleven (2014)

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