Ben Watt at The Fleece in Bristol on Tuesday 10 March 2020
Ben Watt at The Fleece in Bristol on Tuesday 10 March 2020
Musician and writer Ben Watt is most well-known for his seventeen years as songwriter-performer-producer with Tracey Thorn in Everything But The Girl and subsequent ten years as an acclaimed DJ, BBC 6Music presenter and label owner of Buzzin’ Fly.
Before Everything But The Girl, his early recordings as a young solo artist in the early 80s drew comparisons with John Martyn and Tim Buckley. He collaborated with Robert Wyatt on his breakthrough 5-track EP ‘Summer into Winter’ in 1982, and his minimal folk-jazz debut ‘North Marine Drive’ was an UK Independent Chart top ten album in 1983.
In 2014 he returned to his folk-jazz roots, teaming up with guitarist-sideman Bernard Butler for the award-winning album ‘Hendra’. The follow-up ‘Fever Dream’ was released in spring 2016 to further acclaim.
He has also written two much-admired memoirs: the first, ‘Patient’ (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year) detailed his near-death experience with a rare illness in the early nineties; the most recent, ‘Romany and Tom’, a fearless portrait of his parents’ marriage, was nominated for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize in 2014.
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