In an Interesting Twist, Ben Talks About Himself on Video!

Hi, my name is Ben and I can recite all the words to Boom! Shake The Room.

The last few days have been fairly productive in Benji One Lung Land (although it's not great that that kind of contracts to 'Bland'). Firstly, I did an interview for Arts and Entertainment North Devon, a great website that's kind of a central gathering place for everything (as the name would suggest) arty or entertaining in North Devon. Talli Black wrote a very kind review of Ben Dies At The End for the website a little while back and I was asked to be the inaugural interviewee for a new video series they're going to host on the site.

No photo set is complete without me with my eyes closed.

I think the slot has the working title 'Three Minutes With...' and I look forward to seeing it take off with musicians who have much more interesting things to say (and much better hair) than me. If you like me talking a lot about me and a little bit about time travel, you can watch the interview here.

As well as being dashingly handsome on camera, I've broken the back of a couple of the songs for the album over the last couple of days. One, which I think will probably be the album closer, came together with lyrics really quickly and naturally - I sense it's going to be an effort to record, but hey - what hasn't; another is a more mellow track, about not feeling you have to be ordinary - the only problem with it so far is that it's a bastard to play and sing at the same time. That's not the end of the world, but it does slow down the writing process a little bit... when I can make the transition from 'writing' the song to just 'practicing' it, that won't be a problem any more. I hope. There're also a few lyrics floating around for a song that I've pretty much finished the music for; I feel like I'm finding my pace with the writing process, so things should hopefully move on quite consistently from here.

I'm off to lock myself away in Kent for a couple of weeks from this weekend, doing real-non-musical-life stuff. Supposed to be doing non-musical stuff, but in actual fact I should be able to spend a fair amount of time writing - I guess we'll see how that works out when I get back.

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- Ben