Lovers Electric

According to their parents, David Turley and Eden Boucher first met aged 7 in their home town of Adelaide, Australia but neither remembers it although it is pretty likely as the arts community in Adelaide is pretty small and everyone knows everyone.

However, the meeting was actually less probable than the duo report. Eden spent her childhood with her musician father, dancer mother and 6 sisters travelling around Australia in a motor home. Davids childhood with his poet father, pianist mother and just the one sister was based in Adelaide except for a year or two when the Turley family also climbed on board a motor home and headed off around Britain and Europe. Their return to Australia when David was 15 coincided with him picking up a guitar for the first time and realising that there was more to music than classical and jazz.

As David returned to Australia, Eden left and headed to Europe with her parents and two youngest sisters Angelle (now a successful model) and Harmony. They settled in Stockton on Tees not a place normally associated with Antipodean immigrants but the location of an arts community who offered the family accommodation in an unused Presbytery.

David and Eden met for the second time back in Adelaide and after a long distance friendship David joined Eden in Teeside before the pair travelled the world in a street theatre company (disguised as human slinkies!)it was a way of life for a while and an incredible day job.

Whilst Davids first band Dewey Del had limited success in Australia we organised a fundraising gig in Adelaide, but we lost $1000, their first (if somewhat brief) foray into the UK music scene was in the band Atlas who were signed to Virgin UK and released a single. Meanwhile with her inherent creativity, and having made her own clothes since childhood, Eden set up her own fashion label Eden Honeydew.

Having both enjoyed (to varying degrees) their musical experiences, they set about writing music together. They bought a computer for 800 and recorded (with Pop Will Eat Itselfs Fuzz Townshend on drums) and mixed their album learning the technical skills required as they went (on completion they sold the computer for 750) the vocals were recorded on a tiny piano mic in the attic of the house, its a unique sound! Edens sister Butterfly, signed to Interscope, had previously introduced them to the US manager Michael Dixon (Ron Sexsmith) who, having heard the album, signed them to his management company.

The highly stylised video for their debut single Honey was filmed and produced Jack & Jill Films, the Teeside production company owned by Edens sister Danielle.