The Colour Of Summer is the 3rd song from my song cycle TiLT. The video for this is highlights of Glastonbury 2024. It wasn’t my original plan for the music video but as I was at Glasto the last week of June and it felt right! Every month for a year I’ll be releasing a track from my new album “TILT” inspired by the seasons and the cycle of the year. I wrote each track during the season it was inspired by, weaving in field recordings from around where I live. Songs available to download from my Bandcamp page https://bertiebow.bandcamp.com First release: ‘Something New’ - Spring/April Second release: ‘To Life’ - Beltane/May Third release ‘The Colour Of Summer’ - Summer/June @bertiebow www.bertiebow.com

Every month for the next 12 I’ll be releasing a track from my new album “TILT” inspired by the seasons and the cycle of the year. I wrote each track during the season it was inspired by, weaving in field recordings from around where I live. Second release: May, Beltane - ‘To Life’ This is all about May and Beltane . Based around the very old Song Sumer Is Acumin In with field recordings of May sounds in North Norfolk and the vocals are sampled from the last line of the April song ‘Something New’ from the same album. www.bertiebow.com @bertiebow

Every month for the next 12 I’ll be releasing a track from my new album “TILT” inspired by the seasons and the cycle of the year. I wrote each track during the season it was inspired by, weaving in field recordings from around where I live. First release: April, Spring - ‘Something New’. Whilst the lyrics are all about spring and new life the arrangement is entirely inspired by ‘orc pop’, the sonic world of the pop orchestras of the 1960s and 1970s. As a 19 year old feeling lost and not knowing whether I wanted to continue playing the viola, I would listen to Morricone, Mancini, Bacharach, Herb Alpert & the TJB, riding on the top deck beside Hyde Park wearibg tinted yellow shades. Unabashed & gloriously romantic, emotional and nostalgic and always filling me with warm feelings. available on Bandcamp

Here’s my 2022 festive, sparkly, shimmery, feel good song Pass It On. Inspired by a very generous man who, when asked what he wanted in return for his generous acts, simply said “when you can, in whatever way you can, pass it on”. Sometimes the smallest act can start a chain of positive acts, like when you get let into traffic, so you let in someone further down the road and then they do the same and so and so on. Pass it on. spread the good will & acts of kindness. The track will be available to download and stream from 17th December on all platforms so please listen to it on repeat so I can get a Xmas number 1 😆 In the meantime here I am channeling my inner Elton John. There are also two special guest appearances too…. Director - me DoP - my Dad Eddie Anderson Stylists - Alf & Pops Designs Leaf throwers - woodland pixies Edit - me with the help of @Videoleap Special Guests Evie Anderson Poppy Cora

I created this animated film for the Musical Advent Calendar in 2020. The song I wrote a few years ago. I found the lyrics in some journals written by my Great Great Aunt Kit. They are attributed to a Mrs Cowie though I couldn’t find any more about them or her online so decided to put them to music. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen was a story that I found uncomfortable as a child and still do today. To buy the song or hear other songs inspired by the the journals or to find out more about me and my music then please visit my website www.Bertiebow.com I have never made an animated film before. I didn’t really plan it either! I just sat down and started drawing thinking I would just use a still image. But then I fed it into the app Videoleap on my iPhone 11 and started playing around and before I knew it I had created this little film. I really hope to do more in this area in particular for other songs and stories inspired by the journals and local lore of Poppy land in North Norfolk.

Let no one steal your thyme- words found in Kits journal from 1912, told to her by John Grey, a local retired farmer. Good Matches- lyrics found in Kit’s journal, no melody discovered yet so I composed a new one. Sally Bean. A song Composed telling the true history of some North Norfolk Smugglers, Ted Summers and Sally Bean. Winding Fallant- Kit carefully listed the names of the many small fields or Londs and Pightles that no longer exist. My father turned these lists into a poem which I set to music. Life On A Cliff Edge- This song shares memories from 3 different current Poppyland residents told to me in Winter 2022. Southrepps Jig- Given to me by a local musician Southrepps is a village in Poppyland and this is a trad jig.

One of the first songs I wrote for the Poppyland Song Cycle. For more info on Poppyland Songs or for the Poppyland Songs Podcast please visit my website www.bertiebow.com

First Walk is one of the compositions making up the song cycle Poppyland Songs.

Down The Road wasn’t the song we thought we’d be releasing this summer. We’ve never even played it live together! It was recorded at the end of last year and put on the back burner to be finished - edited/produced/mixed at a later date. But then Covid happened and this song just said it all. Currently as a band we are seperated by 1000s of miles and limited by technology and time but we still wanted to have a video with all of us in it. Hope you enjoy! Whilst many peoples’ lives our returning to some sort of normal we have had all our gigs either cancelled or postponed till next year losing us our main revenue and the main reason we make music. The song is available on all the usual platforms but we get a bit more £ from bandcamp so buying from there would be cool for us. ✌🏻 http://thebeaubowbelles.bandcamp.com/track/down-the-road Down The Road was inspired by a personal feeling of loss, separation, grief and desperate hopeful optimism. That personal experience has now become everyone’s experience. https://open.spotify.com/album/0xKXOo7inyi0tYNHGFOysL?si=YK514_kITb-4YuoIU7ka5g http://thebeaubowbelles.bandcamp.com/track/down-the-road https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08B5H52T9/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_icE9EbYKEAVX5 We all need something to look forward to. We miss each other dreadfully. We miss our families dreadfully. We miss playing music together. We miss playing live. Let’s hope we see you all Down The Road soon. https://music.apple.com/gb/album/down-the-road-maximal-aerobic-power-mix-single/1518436531 PS. For those of you who came to us via the folk byways, don’t be too scared! We decided to release this “Anaerobic Power Mix” first because it was just too much fun not to!This is a lyric video for our new single