Formed in Belfast in 1984, the band enjoyed several hits - including 1988’s Top 20 classic Broken Land - and made four albums before disbanding in the mid-90s.

Featuring key original members Pat Gribben, Terry Sharpe and Eileen Gribben and including a songwriting collaboration between Pat and Cathy Dennis, this brand new studio album from Belfast band THE ADVENTURES is their first in over 30 years.

Pat Gribben explains the background to the new album: “We had been musing over the possibility of making another Adventures album for some time until Covid and consequential lock down. I found myself spending more time in my little home studio and I could dedicate myself to a songwriting binge. ‘Hanging Tree’ was the first song I finished and this gave us the impetus we needed.”

“Songwriting is all about running the rusty water out until the clear stuff flows. The album was written and largely recorded on my home computer set-up ‘L. U. C. Y.’ is the first lead vocal by Eileen to appear on any Adventures album - a writing collaboration between Cathy Dennis and myself.”

“All the vocals, keyboards and acoustic guitars were recorded here at my home studio. All the bass, electric guitars and live drums were recorded at Einstein Studios.”

1. My Imaginary Girlfriend
2. With The Cats
3. When The Sun Goes Down
4. Love Talk
5. L.U.C.Y.
6. Down By The Water
7. Song For You
8. I Still Dream Of You
9. The Hanging Tree
10. To Whom It Concerns

This brilliantly refreshing new set, more of a sound advancement than a flashback cuddle, opens on the gently frenetic pop-rock of My Imaginary Girlfriend and the alt-rocker With The Cats and then we get the lushly orchestrated, quietly Celtic in flow When The Sun Goes Down, the 90’s guitar rock of Love Talk and then we get the psych-hued hipsway of L.U.C.Y. brought forth.

Along next is the ambient-styled Down By The Water and the sumptuously mellow, melodically free flowing Song For You and they are in turn followed by the dutifully harmonized I Still Dream Of You, the music rounding out on the jaunty 60’s pop-imbibed, rockabilly drenched The Hanging Tree, coming to a close on the languishing beauty within To Whom It Concerns.

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