Currently busy putting finishing touches to his collaboration with Italian band Nosound (not to be confused with No-Man of course), vocalist Tim Bowness still finds time to leaf through some books and earwig some music.

"A Man Without A Country is a slender book containing personal reminiscences, creative insights and copious criticisms of contemporary US politics and the ongoing Iraq war.

A Man Without A Country is a slender book containing personal reminiscences, creative insights and copious criticisms of contemporary US politics and the ongoing Iraq war. For me, the book doesn't rank highly amongst Vonnegut's works, but his bittersweet prose and ever-present idealism means that he's always a pleasure to read. Despite it's subject matter, the book seemed very light reading compared to the often harrowing. Vonnegut-inspired, Extremely Loud & Incredibily Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.  An inventive post 9/11 fiction, the book is by turns moving, funny, clever, and irritating.  The 'Dresden/Grandfather' sections are particularly strong.

The Last Album(s) I Bought: Milosh - Meme/Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Two interesting and impressive attempts to bridge the pop song/experimental electronica divide.

The Yorke album is biting and admirably uncommercial, while Milosh creates a listenable and seductive 'electro - soul boy' fusion. Kate Bush's beautiful and ambitious Aerial and Paddy McAloon's lovely and strange I Trawl The Megahertz remain my most played albums of recent times."

You can keep up with Tim's music via his Myspace site.