Chris Difford (Squeeze) & Boo Hewerdine
as part of the Biddulph Up In Arms programme of events
Chris Difford has been writing lyrics for over twenty-five years most notably with Squeeze. After 13 albums and many top 20 hits, 29 American tours, 30 UK tours and various trips around the globe, Chris decided to stop the merry-go-round and test the waters.
www.chrisdifford.com/
www.myspace.com/cdifford
Boo Hewerdine - Former member of the mid-Eighties band, The Bible. Two of their finest songs, “Graceland” and “Honey Be Good”, came tantalisingly close to becoming hits. (A third, “Glorybound”, is one of the recordings about which Nick Hornby rhapsodises in his book 31 Songs.) After the band split the first Boo Hewerdine solo album, Ignorance, was released in 1992, followed by Baptist Hospital in 1996 and Thanksgiving in 1998, both made with Nick Drake producer John Wood, and by Anon in 2002.
In 1994, five songs Boo had written or co-written appeared on Eddi Reader’s Eddi Reader, triggering a parallel career with her that continues to this day. (In 2003 he produced the acclaimed Eddi Reader Sings The Songs Of Robert Burns.) 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. “I don’t think of myself in that world at all,” he explains. “It’s just I quite enjoy the Brill Building aspect. I enjoy it because it’s not what I do.” Amongst the many artists he has written for in this way are Natalie Imbruglia, Mel C and Alex Parks.
www.boohewerdine.net/bio/bio.htm
www.myspace.com/boohewerdine
Tickets £14.00
For tickets call Eric 01782 514896 or Craig 01782 523277
www.BiddulphupinArms.com
Friday 18 April, Biddulph Town Hall, 8:30pm, Gig
Tickets: see description above for more information.
