8 piece Bristol based experimental instrumental band. Part of the musical collective 'Bloom' www.bloommusic.co.uk

Count Bobo are a 6 piece group from Bristol playing in the style of early ska and rocksteady. Formed in 2012, they perform a selection of covers from artists like The Skatalites, Roland Alphonso and Jackie Mittoo, more recently including their own material.
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They released their debut album 'Bird of Paradise' on limited edition 12 inch vinyl. The album was recorded by their producer Drezz at 'The Tape Rooms'. As a fully analogue studio, the band was able to record live and straight to tape in an attempt to emulate the records of their early influences.

They have since been gigging the UK festival, pub and club circuit including performances at Glastonbury, Green Man, Shambala, Secret Garden Party and Larmer Tree festival.

Count Bobo is-

Graeme Smith- lead vocals and alto sax
Dan Inzani- keyboards and vocals
Lorenzo Prati- tenor sax
Leon Boyden- guitar
Pete Gibbs- bass
Dan Truen- drums

As a multi-instrumentalist, collaborator, composer and songwriter, Beth has a passion for creating, an ear for listening, and a pure, unaffected voice that delivers beautifully original, understated yet powerful songs. Imagine Joanna Newsome goes to Nashville and writes a song with Anne Briggs and David Byrne from Talking Heads. She is a member of The Bookshop Band, Spell Songs (with Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever) and Red Carousel string quartet. Beth’s cello can be heard on hundreds of recordings, including the Oscar Nominated, and British Animation Award winning film score Robin Robin (Aardman/Netflix) which she composed with Ben Please.

Picked for her songwriting and cello playing, she is one part of Spell Songs (a project inspired by the book Lost Words by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane) with legends of folk including Karine Polwart, Kris Drever and Julie Fowlis. They had a sold out tour in 2019 and were one of Songlines Magazine’s Best Albums of the Year 2019. It was also part of a BBC Prom at The Royal Albert Hall where Beth sang a solo piece with the Southbank Sinfonia. Beth has also toured and recorded with Eliza Carthy, The Unthanks, The Winter Wonderband and many other folk artists. 
She is also one half of literary duo The Bookshop Band (with her husband Ben Please) who spend much of their time writing songs inspired by books and playing them in bookshops and book festivals across the UK, Europe and the States. They have made fourteen albums and are currently recording a new album with Pete Townshend of The Who. 
Beth and Ben wrote the musical score for the Aardman Animation film Robin Robin which was awarded a British Animation Award for the music and was nominated for an Oscar and an Ivor Novello Award. They also wrote music for the audio book of Jackie Morris’ The Unwinding. Other film credits are Far From The Madding Crowd (2015) and BAFTA winning animation The Eagleman Stag (2010) 
In the pop world she has toured with Newton Faulkner, The Heavy and Peter Gabriel and has worked with hundreds of producers and engineers such as John Parish, Boo Herwerdine, Tchad Blake and Stuart Bruce for recording sessions over the last 20 years. Artists include The Proclaimers and Petula Clark as well as Maximo Park and Enter Shakiri. Studios include Real World, Rockfield, Yellow Arch, Castlesound, Moles and Invada. She also does remote sessions from her home in Scotland. 
She plays with Bath based string quartet Red Carousel, who write their own compositions and have been awarded funding to make their debut album. She has also recently joined the The Galloway Agreement, based in her now home county of Dumfries and Galloway. 
She also writes songs under her own name and has also made an album under the band name Marshes. Beth’s own songs are characteristically quirky, charming and ethereal and carried by Beth’s pure and unaffected voice.She has been likened to Cat Power, The Beatles, REM, This Is The Kit, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Radiohead, The Incredible String Band and The Kinks. With a classical background, a venture into folk music, and a love of simple pop songs, there’s nothing quite like Beth’s songwriting.

'The Jester',  a record by Alabaster DePlume and Daniel Inzani.

“Truth is often the jester”

Ten join pianist Daniel Inzani (The Mandibles, Count Bobo and the Bullion) and poet/singer/saxophonist Alabaster dePlume (Honeyfeet, Liz Green) in creating a wash of fugues, invocations and tunes. 

Employing unusual and cut-throat practices, analogue equipment was used to capture the creative expressions and communications of the 12-piece ensemble, live. Spontaneity, sincerity, and humour taking stubborn precedence, the characters of all involved have formed this delightful, unique and deeply moving piece of work. 

Theatrical spoken-word and song joining chorus, horns, strings, piano and percussion, this release is a rich and frighteningly varied gem for Debt Records of Manchester (Bridie Jackson and the Arbour, Walk, Louis Barabbas and the Bedlam 6, Honeyfeet)

The ensemble is comprised Dartington graduates and legends of the local scene, members of Count Bobo and the Bullion, the Mandibles (“evocative, idiosyncratic and even slightly absurd – Venue Magazine”) and Bert Miller and the Animal Folk. It features Sheelanagig’s Aaron Catlow, alongside the cellos of Beth Horton, Pepino’s Jessica Macdonald, Moulettes’ Hannah Miller, and a feast of creative performers from far and wide. 

As part of the project, a large collection of artists are producing images in response to the material, that will be presented online, and physically at the launch in Bristol. A crowd-funding campaign is being set up, to make the bold and uncommon move of paying the artists. 
Support the campaign here: www.pledgemusic.com/projects/thejesterproject

The record will be available on CD, Vinyl and download, on the 8th July, and will be accompanied by the following concerts, in celebration:

12th July 3MT Manchester
13th July 3MT Manchester
14th July Kazimir Liverpool
20th July Folk House Bristol



Dave Doherty - Rhythm, Lead and Bass Guitars, Keys, Percussion and Horn Arrangements.
Clive Deamer  - Drums.
Chris Hughes  - Percussion.
All tracks written, recorded and mixed by Dave Doherty.
Mastered by Tim Debney at Fluid Mastering, London.
Produced by Dave Doherty.

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