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Ben

the ben is mightier than the sword...

About Me

I live in South London and write for assorted magazines, newspapers and websites checking out anything musical that might desereve praise...lucky me.

Some pictures from various gigs in London and Iceland.

If you like Icelandic music then come to Reykjavik Night's debut evening on Sunday 17th June at The Luminaire -

My Interests

Music and socialising or any combination of the two. I also count travelling, dingy indie clubs, snakebite and black, loud music, Norwich City FC, reading endless newspapers, writing about music and my good friends as interests.

I like weird music videos too, this is the strangest one I've seen for ages...enjoy

I'd like to meet:

Johnny Thunders, Ron L. Hubbard, John Simpson...anyone interesting really and the director responsible for this masterpiece of a music video -

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Music:

Flaming Lips, Benni Hemm Hemm, FM Belfast, Retro Stefanson, Helmus Und Dali, Trabant, Lara, Mum, Petur Ben, Lay Low, Belle And Sebastian, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Panic! At The Disco, Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin, The Kooks, Maximo Park, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Zutons, Paul Westerberg, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Stone Roses, Pulp, The Smiths, Unkle Bob, Flipron, Shitdisco, The Klaxons, Datarock, Public Enemy, Jurassic 5, Yes, The Departure, iForward Russia!, Deep Purple, Muse, Cream, Tool, Hey Negrita, British Sea Power, Art Brut, Louis XIV, AC/DC, Dead Meadow, Faithless, Dungen, Lightning Bolt, The Strokes, Videofan, Milk Kan, Bob Dylan, Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Pearl Jam, Johnny Cash, The White Stripes, The Hives, Echo And The Bunneymen, Sex Pistols, Rush, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Joni Mitchell, The Ramones, The Small Faces ...

Movies:

Blade Runner, Game Of Death, London Kills Me, Kill Bill I and II, Withnail and I, This Is Spinal Tap, Aliens, The Song Remains The Same, Leon, Akira, Fear And Lothing In Las Vegas, Team America: World Police...

Television:

Saxondale, Peep Show, Lost, Takeshi's Castle, South Park (particularly the Scientology and R.Kelly episodes) Kath & Kim and Alan Partridge:

"The string-back just gives you a bit of extra purchase."

Books:

The Alchemist, Byron, Keates, Hammer Of The Gods, John Simpson, Wilbur Smith, John Peel biog, Hotel Honolulu, Eddie Would Go, Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime, Kingdom Of Fear...

Heroes:

John Simpson, John Beck, Byron, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Lester Bangs, Bob Dylan, Dion Dublin, Bryan Gunn, Jeremy Goss, Wayne Coyne...
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My Blog

I took some photos

Check out some pics I took of some famous bits of London at night. I got some interesting shots like this one, no photoshop trickery involved I promise......
Posted by Ben on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:32:00 PST

Guilty pleasuures...

Musical guilty pleasures can be many and varied but mine is currently over-blown 70s concept albums. Two excellent (honestly, they are good) examples are Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds and Rick Wakema...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:14:00 PST

WTF? new band night on Thursday

If you're free on Thursday come down to SEone club in London Bridge for an evening of excellent new bands courtesy of Notion magazine. Check down there for more details, you even get a free CD with ev...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:37:00 PST

Insult

Superbly inventive Bush insult from Hugo Chavez -"The devil himself is right in the house. And the devil came here yesterday. Right here""It smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now stan...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:57:00 PST

Journey to the centre of the N155

Only in London would you see the following things on a nightbus in one night- Group of French people getting off the bus because some bloke took the piss out of their questionable choice of jeanswear ...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:03:00 PST

Tin Pan Alley festival - today (Sunday)

Go to virtualfrestivals.com or tinpanalleyfestival.co.uk 16 July to 16 July at Denmark Street, UK ...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:42:00 PST

Smiths night on Friday (tomorrow) in Brixton...

Check it out...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:23:00 PST

A task for the weekend...

When you have 30 mins to spare download/rip/borrow/stream/buy a song called 'And You And I' by erstwhile UK proggers Yes. Once this track is safely on your computer you shall also need -- one dark roo...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:36:00 PST