About Me

Fairytales

This upbeat and jazzy offering combines bouncy, infectious pop with a powerful and driven backdrop

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Give Yourself A Name 4 Days To Save The World The Promise And You Are? Boy Kicking The World

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Foreign Blues

Foreign Blues is a collection of wierd and wonderful songs that takes you on a journey through the musical mind of Ben Elliot. Foreign Blues contains all the hallmarks of Ben's innovative alternative-pop-rock sound, veering between beautiful orchestral soundtrack to rocking riffs. The hooks that wont leave your head for days, coupled with the thick and complex chords, melodies and harmonies, make it an EP that will rarely be off your iPod.

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Old Tales For The Fresh Mind Fortune Favours The Brave Between Inside &amp Out Dearly Beloved White Scares &amp Nightmares 2000plus

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Black, White &amp Everthing Between

Acoustic Pop/Rock, using an array of instruments to create a big and complex sound.

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Black, White &amp Everything Inbetween Enemy Says... Russian Doll Like A Rose (Two Steps In A) One Foot Zoo Passive Cowboys
The Monkey On The Devils Doom

A narrated tale containing 5 songs. The story is of a monkey who decides to make a name for himself in the world. His journey is documented by five songs beautifully sculpted to give a dynamically, harmonally and structurally rounded.

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Introduction The Change Thats The Life We Lead Do You See What We Could Be? Let Not Wait Another Day Back On The Island

Music Video - Old Tales For The Fresh Mind

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/11/2005
Band Website: http://www.benelliot.com
Influences:

Silverchair/The Dissociatives The Divine Comedy Danny Elfman Sunk Loto Thrice Panic At The Disco Billy Talent The Teamen
Sounds Like:

Ben has been voted Best Male Artist in the 2008 annual Golden Kayak Awards at IAC Music

Ben Elliot was recently voted by the BBC and the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters, as one of the UKs best new talents. Along with 15 other artist from around the UK, he spent 2 days at the BBC in Glasgow attending the BBC Radio 2 - New Songwriters Academy. To find out more visit the BBC New Talent website.
Ben Elliot is an innovative new artist from York in the UK. His music draws together influences from rock, pop, film scores and much more. His strongly atmospheric signature track ..Old Tales For The Fresh Mind.. demonstrates this by mixing samples of thick swirling orchestral textures with a big rock sound on a swing groove.

He creates a juxtaposition of styles and instruments to create his own unique brand of popular music. With a background in rock and metal coupled with a love of film music he self-produces solid anthems worthy of todays mainstream. His songs are a step ahead of the rules and confinements that hinder modern pop music and his trademarks of complex structure s, harmonies, time signitures chord progressions and instrumentation are tribute to this. Needless to say, much effort goes into the writing and production of a song and this is positively evident in his recordings.

He has the ability to provide enough originality and innovation to make each song alternatively masterful, while still maintaining a dark credibility most popular musicians strive for. Every song is hand-sculpted and pushes boundaries with every aspect of his song-writing and producing.

DMDs of Ben Elliot are availble for sale at www.iacmusic.com

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Type of Label: Major

My Blog

GYAN on front page of iJigg.com

Give Yourself A Name has been added to the front page of iJigg.com. It is always great to get a good slot on this website as you are gauranteed awesome exposure. for example, 'The Promise' spend a num...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:51:00 GMT

Updates

Just a quick note to keep everybody updated. Take What You Can is up to 29 in the IAC Big 50 Chart. I also added a few old demos to iacmusic.com which seem to be going down quite well. Bruised and Br...
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT

Take What You Can up to 36 in the IAC Big 50

Take What You Can, Give What You Are is moving up the IACmusic.com's Big 50 Chart. It is now at number 36 and has been climing over the last few weeks.
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:39:00 GMT

INDEPENDENT SOUNDS OF YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER CD 2008

..Earlier this year I was privialedged enough to feature on the "Independent Sounds of Yorkshire and the Humberside CD" for 2008. The CD was distributed at the annual MIDEM festival. MIDEM brings toge...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:44:00 GMT

Take What You Can - Version 2 - TAKING IAC BY STORM

If youve read any of my blogs in the last week, you may have cottoned on the fact that iacmusic.com has been enjoying the sound of Take What You Can, Give What You Are - Version 2 since it was uploade...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:07:00 GMT

Old Tales Video - In Stereo

You may have noticed a new addition to my myspace profile, in the form of the video to Old Tales For The Fresh Mind. Although this video has been viewable here on myspace and at You Tube, it has never...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:02:00 GMT

Take What You Can - Version 2 - KIAC HITLINE

I have posted an updated version of Take What You Can, Give What Your Are, you can hear this, and the old version on the music pages, here at benelliot.com. I have jazzed it up at the end and made som...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:56:00 GMT

Take What You Can - Version 2 - ADDED TO MYSPACE

After such a good response at iacmusic.com I have decided to replace the original version ofTake What You Can, Give What You Are, with the new and evidently improved version. Please have a listen and ...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:19:00 GMT

Take What You Can - Version 2

Dear All,Be sure to check out the new version of Take What You Can, Give What You Are at the music pages of benelliot.com. It is bigger, longer and more exciting than before. It is still run by the pi...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:26:00 GMT

Ben Elliot Voted BEST MALE ARTIST by IAC Music

Well, the votes have been counted and the results are in. In an online broadcast on the IAC radio station, I was annouced as the 2008 Best Male Artist as voted by the members of iacmusic.com in the an...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:19:00 GMT