2011
All sorts going on. In September, ventured out of the cafe and took lots of her hats to the Maker Faire... Visitors were asked to write a verse and make a tiny model of the
part of the Fair they enjoyed most - to become a part of the hat and
song that celebrated the day. This clip is the evening performance of
what they all came up with:
Jane Bom-Bane at the Maker Faire after party at the Brunswick in Hove
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Opened Bom-Bane's with Nick Pynn in Brighton. Made mechanical tables, food and music there.
2005
Awarded 'Spirit of the Fringe 2005' at Edinburgh Festival. Fringe show: The Hat Lady Sings
London Cabaret Convention at the Greenwich Theatre.Broadcast on Radio 3
Regular appearances at Box of Acoustic Delights night in Brighton
Pestalozzi Festival, Hastings
Brighton Fringe show 20.05 20.05 20.05
2004
Touring UK Rural Arts circuit with Jane Bom-Bane's Greatest Hats
Edinburgh and Brighton Festivals
2003
BBC Radio 3:Guest of Kit and the Widow
BBC Radio York
Jane Bom Bane's
Greatest Hats
: The Shed, Brawby, Yorkshire
Edinburgh, Worthing and Brighton Fringe Festivals
The Bongo Club, Edinburgh
The Old Pier, Portobello
Adur Festival, Shoreham
Time Warp, Soho
2002
Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals - Year of the Palindrome with Nick
Pynn.
Album: Rotator currently
out on Roundhill Records (order). For review click
here
BBC Radio 3: The Verb
Lewes Live Literature Festival
Guest at Barb Jungr's Cafe Prague, Komedia, Brighton
2001
Shows in London and the South West with Kath Tait.
Edinburgh Festival Solo Show Queen of the Funky Harmonium at the Pleasance (see Edinburgh) featured on STV, Radio 4 and BBC World Service... and given the thumbs-up by (the real) Dave Gorman.Currently writing new material with multi-instrumentalist Nick Pynn.
2000
Gigs in France, Newcastle, at the Edinburgh Festival and in London (Blackheath, Soho, Brixton, Norwood) . See news for more to come
1999
Edinburgh Festival: From Bom-Babyhood to Edinburgh Mermaidenhood
Covered by Channel 4
Various gigs in the
south–east with Kath Tait, Brighton Festival
1998
Queen Elizabeth Hall: Mirror Man with David
Thomas and Linda Thompson
NFT:
Performance as part of David Thomas’ Disastodrome
CD track on
Mirror Man (Cooking Vinyl)
CD: Jane Bom-Bane
I’ve got a goldfish bowl on my head (Wrong Records)
Title song
performed live on Clacton beach for Channel
4’s The Divine David
Various UK gigs including The Shed at Brawby previewed
on Radio York
1997
Café Graffiti: Underwonderworld 2
Featured twice on The Bigger Breakfast, Live at
Edinburgh
BBC2 "Edinburgh Nights", Radio 2, Radio
5Live! and Radio Scotland
Album: Underwonderworld
(Wrong)
Bracknell Festival, Glasgow’s
Mayfest, Brighton Festival etc.
1996
Music for Steve Hawley’s film The Man from
Porlock (harmonium and
voice)
Previewed at the NFT
Underwonderworld
1 Edinburgh and various UK dates
Album: It makes
me laugh (Wrong)
Video: I’ve Lost My
Sheen
featured on Ch 4’s "Live TV"
1995
Flowers and Fireworks Edinburgh, London and the
south-east
Album:
Round-way-wrong Songs
(Wrong)
Covered by STV’s Don’t Look
Down, Radio 2, Radio Scotland
Gigs in France and Britain
1994
First appearance at Edinburgh Festival as
Plain Bom-Bane
Bracknell Festival and various
performances in London
Pre –1990s
Formed and toured with Round-a-way Wrong Chamber
Single /Video: Boy/yoB (Wrong)- produced by David
Cunningham/The Flying Lizards
Lead singer with 2Tone band The Swinging Cats
Single: Away/Mantovani (2Tone) Produced by Jerry Dammers
Album track: This are Two-Tone
Various UK gigs
Songs to a small guitar - singing in local Coventry folk
clubs