Ben at the Beeb
It’s been a busy week. I played a load of gigs, and ended up on the BBC.
I got back from playing the Little Fish gig in Manchester at about 4:30am on Sunday, and by 2pm I was down in the Half Moon warming up for a Troubadour set as part of James Bell‘s rather excellent Offshoot festival. I revived 12×12 and played some of my more folksy numbers (Hugh F-W, Already Know, some of the Tweet Suite) before finishing with a particularly gruff rendition of How Come My Dog Don’t Bark When You Come Around, my favourite Dr John song.
The Twitter song on the BBC World Service
In the evening I was playing some piano with Jooles from Little Fish at the Holywell Music Rooms (another Offshoot event). As we were setting up I got a call from the lovely Chris Vallance asking if he could use the Twitter song for a BBC World Service piece. I’m still quite pleasantly surprised that people contact me about using the song in podcasts, radio shows, presentations and lessons.
Like a proud parent I’m glad that something I created has done well for itself, and like an errant child the Twitter song calls home every once in a while to let me know what it’s up to. So (like an unwanted and slightly braggy Christmas family newsletter) here’s the bit of World Service radio with the Twitter song on it. It’s less than five minutes, and worth a listen even if I wasn’t on it. ;)
Little Fish on the BBC home page
And as if that wasn’t enough, I ended up making an appearance on the BBC home page on Monday. A tiny, badly lit part of a video of me playing Hammond behind Juju and Nez, but an appearance nonetheless. It was a video that BBC took of Little Fish playing the Radiohead song Just at the Oxford gig last Saturday. It was a classic BBC mix (loads of vocal, everything else dry and flat), but they filmed it on three cameras and it looked pretty cool.
The video seems to have disappeared off the BBC Oxford site since it was on the front page, but I recorded it while it was up so I could always sneakily post it somewhere…
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