“One of Britain’s most consistently accomplished songwriters” Colin Irvine, BBC Review
“One of the best songwriters we have” Nick Coleman, The Independent on Sunday
“One of the country’s finest lyricists” The Birmingham Evening Mail
In Culzean Castle’s second-hand bookshop hangs a notice board that collects the store’s greatest stories. Lost and discarded notes, photographs, old receipts, letters, postcards – fragments of people’s lives that each tell their own tale and even inspire new ones.
Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine’s new album Things Found In Books is an album of songs written in response to this notice board, that celebrates the ordinary lives of those on the Scottish coast. The album is releasing 28/03/25 across both digital and physical forms. Its physical release is being made with extra care, releasing as a beautiful hardback bespoke CD book. Single out March 14th.
Boo and Yvonne have formed an inimitable songwriting partnership weaving these ephemeral stories with their own, creating an album full of nostalgia and beauty, hope and longing.
TOUR DATES
THINGS FOUND IN BOOKS – Boo Hewerdine & Yvonne Lyon
Thursday 3 July
The Engine Room, North Shields
Friday 4 July
The Book Tree, Pickering
Saturday 5th July
Diamond Jubliee Town Hall, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Nr. Gainsborough
Sunday 6 July
Mellor Brook Community Centre, Blackburn
Thursday 10 July
Kibworth Books, Leicestershire
Friday 11 July
Prohibition Recording Studio, Liverpool
Saturday 12 July
The Tin Shed, Flintshire, North Wales
Sunday 13 July
Lichfield Festival, Staffs
Friday 18 July
Thimblemill Library, Smethwick
Saturday 19 July
Live at the Law, North Berwick (TBC)
Sunday 20 July
Milton Keynes International Festival
Thursday 24 July
Chapel Arts Centre, Bath
Saturday 26 July
The Spring Arts Centre, Havant
Sunday 27th July
Sound Lounge, Sutton. Start time 6pm
Saturday 2nd August
Birnam Book Festival, Birnam Arts, Perthshire
Friday 8th August
Llangwm Literary Festival, Wales
Boo Hewerdine is an acclaimed Ivor Novello Award nominated English singer-songwriter now living and working in Glasgow. Eddi Reader enjoyed international success with the (Hewerdine written) hit single “Patience of Angels” in 1995 and Boo also produced Reader’s “Sings the Songs of Robert Burns” in 2003, an album now viewed as a folk classic. Boo Hewerdine is one of the greatest songwriter performers in the business.
Yvonne Lyon is among the UK’s brightest and best singer songwriters. Her most recent album Growing Wild is her tenth solo studio release Yvonne consistently combines poignant lyrics with strong, creative melodies demonstrating a voice that can be both fragile and intense.
She has guested on two live sessions with Bob Harris on his BBC Radio 2 show and recently completed a Master’s Degree in Songwriting and Performance from the University of the West of Scotland.
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