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Ben Shannahan

About Me

I started playing sax when I was about 12 and I picked up the guitar and started teaching myself when i was around 18. In 2000 I started playing solo at La Tropicana in Cottesloe, Perth, Western Australia. Before long a band developed with some good mates from a lazy Sunday afternoon residency we had there. We called ourselves '!gwap' and had a ball for around 7 months and recorded a live album before I left to go to europe.Since arriving in Europe, I've kept myself busy playing solo in Paris and blowing my horn with some DJ's and a band there and in Normany where I was living for the best part of a couple of years. In London i've been mainly singing and guitaring solo gigs and various bars around the place and have accompanied a few other outfits playing sax with them.I'm in the process of recording some new material that is long overdue. I'm looking for a double bass player to collaborate with at the moment for the album and may be going to Poland to record after receiving an offer to do so from a radio station there. Anyway, stay tuned for some new music and for up and coming gigs....!Ben. 27.05.07
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Member Since: 06/09/2006
Band Website: www.benshannahan.com
Influences: Miles Davis, Tea Party, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Midnight Oil, Massive Attack, BB King, Cordazine, Radiohead, Edith Piaf, M, Stan Getz, Astrid Gilberto, Jeff Buckley, Portishead, Tom Waits, Kurt Elling, Ben Harper, Bob Dylan, Directions in Groove, Charlie Parker, Joshua Redman, Branford Marsalis, Coldplay, Crowded House, Paul Kelly, Pete Murray, Dave Mathews, David Crosby, Tim Buckley, Chick Corea, Dire Straits, Elbow, Faithless, Fat Freddy's Drop, Fiona Apple, Fleetwood Mac, Bobby McFerrin, Frank Sinatra, Gotan Project, James Brown, James Taylor, Jimmy Hendrix, Jeff Lang, The Mars Volta, Michael Franks, Frank Sinatra, Morphine, Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, Ray LaMontagne, Zero 7, Ali Farka Toure, Sly and the Family Stone, The Smiths, Something For Kate, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Joe Henderson, Michael Franti, Bob Marley, Harry Manx, Parliment, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Nick Cave, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, etc......!
Record Label: Unsigned

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