Tim Bowness/Samuel Smiles

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Samuel Smiles (frequently known as Tim Bowness/Samuel Smiles, the name to which all of their albums were attributed) were an intermittently active English ambient-folk band. Their best known line-up featured singer Tim Bowness (of the band No-Man). Tim Bowness (born 29 November 1963, Stockton Heath, Cheshire, England) is a singer/songwriter primarily known for his work as part of the band No-Man, a long-term project with Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson. Named after the Scottish writer, social reformer and self-help advocate, the band was originally formed in Cambridge in 1990 by textural guitarist Michael Bearpark and acoustic guitarist (and future child psychologist) Charles Fernyhough, along with singer Grainne McAlonan and double-bass player Phil Unwin. They were later joined by pianist Peter Chilvers. The band subsequently underwent a number of changes in direction (including folk and country) and parted company with McAlonan, Unwin and Fernyhough. Remaining band members Bearpark and Chilvers then joined up with Tim Bowness (initially under the new name of Strapless) in June 1991. The band rapport was so instant that they performed their first live date on the day of their first rehearsal, and went into Amazon Studios (now Parr Street Studios) in Liverpool to record a live album barely three weeks later. These early sessions were eventually released on the Burning Shed label as Live Archive One. The band continued sporadically to record and perform over the next decade

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albums

World Of Bright Futures

Live Archive 2/The Way We Used To Live

Live Archive One

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Lisa/Ophelia

The way we used to live

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World of Bright Futures Disc 1

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Live Archive Vol. 1

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World Of Bright Futures CD1

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World of Bright Futures [Live EP]

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World Of Bright Futures CD2

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Burning Shed - Sampler One

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It Could Be Home - Plenty Revisited

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