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New album EMERGE, RETURN, out now

Five years since the idea was first muted in the studio of Pete Townshend, our new album is complete, finished, printed, digitised,...

EMERGE RETURN Tour Diary #1: Singles, Shauns and Smoke Machines

Shaun Bythell from The Bookshop in Wigtown say's it's always good to keep a diary, so, here we go. It's been a real journey so far, but...

The new album is almost ready... PRE-ORDER IT NOW :)

https://www.thebookshopband.co.uk Over the last few months, Ben has been beavering away making sure that everything is ready for our new...

New Eerie Pirate Pop Single

Many moons ago, when we all looked a little younger, we met bestselling author Kate Mosse at Mr Bs Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath...

We made a movie

In January 2021 Jessica Fox, an author who lives in Wigtown and one of the very first people we met when we first arrived, came up to me...

Going LIVE again, Monday 5th Dec // 8.30pm (GMT)

Hi everyone, Beth and I are going to try and get the children down before 8.30pm so we can bring you another LIVE stream concert. You can...

Get your ROBIN ROBIN vinyl NOW!

Is it a command? It may as well be. This limited edition picture disk of our Ivor Novello nominated score of the Oscar nominated film by...

25% off pretty much everything

As it's the festive season coming up (and we seriously need to make some room in our house for some exciting new projects in 2023) we're...

A new Bookshop Band addition

It must seem like Beth and I have been under a stone for months. We're still very much here, and in fact most of what has been keeping us...

Composing the score for Robin Robin (Aardman / Netflix)

Robin Robin is out now on Netflix and you can listen to the original motion picture soundtrack album now on Spotify. The Animated Journey...

Studio steps with Pete Townshend

No one ever played or sang anything good before 11am in the morning, so recording sessions don't start till then either. (Please feel...

The best way to start a new album

It’s been a ten hour drive so far. Molly’s been amazing and the traffic down the M6 / M5 from Fife has been reasonable. We are 15 minutes...

The Bookshop Band US TOUR - the final fling.

I’m writing this from an old pub just round the corner from Mr B’s Emporium in Bath. I don’t mean to be so British but I can't help but...

Sleepless in Taos

UPDATE - we've just released the song inspired by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which is set in Taos Pueblo - so we're republishing...

The Bookshop Band US Tour - The Winter Institute, Albuquerque

We arrived in Albuquerque for the American Booksellers’ Associations (ABA) annual conference, the Winter Institute, which sees all the...

The Bookshop Band US Tour - The Mr B's Road Trip and Beth's Longest Birthday

Woke at 3.30am. Bundled all our stuff and Molly into the lift and shuffled/shuttled it to the taxi. Weather warnings of rain, ice and...

The Bookshop Band US Tour - Manhattan and Queens

Molly woke up at 5am. This was our big double bill day in New York and it had started a little early. Ben and Molly went down for...

Tour Of America (3) - Short Stories & Turn of the Corkscrew

Thursday 17th Jan Woke up with a mild hangover from the whisky and MacGuffin Beer. We didn’t have a lot but the beer was 12%! Or maybe we...

Tour Of America - LITTLE CITY BOOKS

New York is mild. I mean, it’s still below freezing but not the blizzards that could descend at this time of year. Just before we left...

Tour Of America - Arrival

We woke at 4.30 after very little sleep due to a restless Molly and late night packing. My dad had drawn the short straw at being the one...

US Tour 2019 Announced

The New York Times recently wrote: “The Bookshop Band is not just good but achingly good… If America’s independent booksellers can’t...

21st century economics and planetary health

Pioneering partnership from Oxford arts and sustainability organisations sees release of environmental research music video. Tandem...

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Writing songs for THE BOOK OF DUST, by Philip Pullman

New album EMERGE, RETURN, out now

EMERGE RETURN Tour Diary #1: Singles, Shauns and Smoke Machines

The new album is almost ready... PRE-ORDER IT NOW :)

New Eerie Pirate Pop Single

We made a movie

Going LIVE again, Monday 5th Dec // 8.30pm (GMT)

Get your ROBIN ROBIN vinyl NOW!

25% off pretty much everything

A new Bookshop Band addition

Composing the score for Robin Robin (Aardman / Netflix)

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