Boo Hewerdine at New Cample Farm

from Emily Smith

Who: Boo Hewerdine (support is Jennifer Byrnes).
Where: New Cample Farm, Thornhill
When: Sunday 11th September
Time: 7.30pm
Tickets: £8
To Book: Tickets available from New Cample Farm or call 01848 332325.

Boo Hewerdine is widely regarded as a songwriting legend, an artist with a musical C.V of international collaborations and hit songs that stretch over two decades and many genres.  Alongside touring as a solo artist and producing records for other artists, Boo regularly writes songs for and performs with Eddi Reader.  He wrote Eddi's hit song  'Patience of Angels' and produced her 2003 acclaimed album 'Eddi Reader Sings The Songs of Robert Burns'.

Boo's new album "God Bless The Pretty Things" is his first band album in almost a decade. Recorded in Glasgow during the spring of 2009, Boo is joined by a wealth of fantastic musicians: Justin Currie (Del Amitri), Berlin based multi instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunngren, Ewen Vernal, Roy Dodds, Kevin McGuire and Alan Kelly (all from Eddi Readers band) and label mates John McCusker and Heidi Talbot.

For many years Boo had been writing with and for other artists - in 1989 he released a whole album, 'Evidence', in collaboration with the American country singer Darden Smith - but towards the end of the Nineties he also began to write songs for and with pop artists, something he considers a complete separate endeavour.  Amongst the many artists he has written for in this way are Natalie Imbruglia, Mel C and Alex Parks.     

Boo's last performance in Dumfries & Galloway was back in 2005 when he was one of eight UK songwriters to be involved in the first of the region's collaborative songwriting project 'Burnsong'. 

"In the two decades or so since he first emerged with The Bible, Boo Hewerdine has become one of the movers and shakers in song-writing and production; his name anywhere on an album being a mark of quality"
R2 / Rock n Reel

http://www.boohewerdine.net