If you leave a human in lockdown for long enough, they will eventually do a mashup of So What and Blind Date.
It’s obvious to everyone that it was the way Ben played the saxophone on ‘(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again’ that won Elton John and Bernie Taupin the Oscar but, even though he checks the post every day, his Oscar still hasn’t arrived.
Ben features on one track on both of these new releases from Shri and Dr Rubberfunk. ‘The Letter’ was produced by Bugge Wesseltoft and is released on his Jazzland label. ‘My Life At 45’ is a follow up to Dr Rubberfunk’s ‘My Life At 33’ album 12 years ago.
If you’ve been wondering whether Ben would make a good rap star, this advert should take away the element of doubt.
The second series of Sex Education is out now on Netflix. Ben has worked a lot with composer Oli Julian and has played on many of his TV and film soundtracks, including Plebs, How To Build a Girl, Motherland, Cuckoo, Episodes and Timewasters, but his flute, clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophones are featured heavily in both series of Sex Education.
Ben wrote some tunes with Cian Boylan for the ‘The Last Right’, written and directed by Aoife Crehan.
Ben wrote a few arrangements for the Matthew Herbert Big Band album ‘The State Between Us’, scheduled for release on 29th March, the same day that Brexit is scheduled to happen.
Ben co-wrote the Ceol (music) for this Vodafone Ireland fógra (advert) with Joel Hartman at Soundtree (fuaime-crann).
Ben is featured heavily on Matthew Herbert’s soundtrack to the Oscar winning film ‘A Fantastic Woman’
Ben co-wrote the music for the latest Just Eat advert with Luis Almau at Soundtree Music and arranged the Big Band score.
Click HERE for the film of Sgt Pepper being played in it's entirety at Philharmonie in Paris by Ed Harcourt, Steve Mason, Pete Doherty, Carl Barât and Gaz Coombes with Ben on woodwinds, sax and alarm clock.
Ben will be part of the Spacebomb house band at the Barbican on 6th October 2017. It will be hosted by Matthew E White and feature performances by Matthew, Natalie Prass, Foxygen, Bedouine, Mike Scott, Slow Club and many more.
Lovely Jazzwise review of Ben and long time collaborator Mark Edwards' first duo experiment at The Verdict in Brighton. A "wholly unpredictable, entirely improvised journey through sound". There will be more.
Ben wrote the music for this video for the brilliant Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival.
BEN HAS A BRAND NEW WEBSITE BUT YOU KNOW THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT.
OTHER EQUALLY EXCITING NEWS AND A NEW ALBUM COMING SOON.