Ben Marwood

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Ben Marwood
Ben Marwood
Background information
Origin Reading, United Kingdom
Genres Folk, Folk Punk
Occupations Guitarist/Singer-songwriter
Instruments Guitar, Vocals
Years active 2002 - present
Labels Xtra Mile Recordings, Josaka Music, Broken Tail Records
Website benmarwood.com

Ben Marwood is an English singer-songwriter from the English town of Reading.[1][2]

Musical career

As part of the contemporary London folk scene, Marwood has performed alongside Frank Turner, Chris T-T and Emily Barker amongst others.[3]

Ben is a good friend of Xtra Mile Recordings artist Frank Turner and was part of Turner's extended backing band at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony,[4] and appeared in the video for Turner's single Long Live the Queen.[5]

Playing solo shows from 2002,[6] in 2008 he released his debut mini-album, This Is Not What You Had Planned to some critical acclaim,[7][8] followed by a three-way split album entitled Exclamation At Asterisk Hash which also featured friends Oxygen Thief and Jim Lockey. Both were released on Broken Tail Records, a small indie label run by Marwood.[9] The debut album Outside There's A Curse was released on London-based Xtra Mile Recordings on 31 January 2011 to further critical acclaim, with Kerrang! awarding it a score of four out of a possible five Ks and Rocksound awarding an eight out of ten.[10] The album release was supported by two national headline tours alongside Oxygen Thief,[11][12][13] and a support slot with Frank Turner in May 2011.[14] All undistributed copies of the album were subsequently destroyed in the arson attack on the Sony DADC warehouse during the 2011 England Riots in August 2011.[15][16]

After unreleased material featured on a couple of compilation appearances towards the end of 2011, BBC News reported that Marwood was working on a second album.[17][18][19] It was confirmed in a blog post on 23 December 2012 that the new album would follow in 2013 and was preceded by a five-song EP featuring re-recorded live takes of previous songs entitled Incidents/Accidents, released via Bandcamp on a pay-what-you-like basis.[20]

Following the Bandcamp release, two further digital EPs were released in February 2013 through Josaka Music, Demons and Ben Marwood & Quiet Quiet Band Lay Low, a split with Reading band Quiet Quiet Band which had shortened to Lay Low by the time it reached retailers,[21][22][23] after which Rock Sound announced that the new album Back Down would be released on May 13, 2013 through Xtra Mile Recordings. A headline UK tour was subsequently announced which also featured prominent members of the underground UK acoustic scene, as well as a video for the single Under Lock and Key,[24][25] before heading to the US as opening support for Frank Turner.[26]

Outside of performing, Marwood also hosts a monthly show on weekly alternative podcast edit radio.[27]

Discography

Albums

  • Outside There's a Curse (2011)
  • Back Down (2013)

EPs

Split EPs

  • Ben Marwood vs. Heartwear Process (7" vinyl - 2007)
  • Exclamation At Asterisk Hash (w/Oxygen Thief & Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun - 2009)
  • Lay Low (w/Quiet Quiet Band - 2013)

Compilation appearances

  • Four By Four EP - "More Good Propaganda" (2007)
  • Four By Four More EP - "Question Marks?" (2008)
  • Xtra Mile High Club Vol. 3 - "We Are No Longer Twenty-Five [Mile High Version]" (2011)
  • Lamp Light the Fire - "Horatio Dies" (2011)

References

  1. ↑ Minard, Jenny (2011-01-20). "The Session: Why Ben Marwood's dreaming of bed". Reading Post (Reading). Retrieved October 11, 2011. "Reading folk-angst singer Ben Marwood [...]" 
  2. ↑ "Ben Marwood and co at Club Velocity". Reading Chronicle (Reading). 2011-07-07. Retrieved October 11, 2011. "[...] Reading's finest anti-folk singer-songwriter, Ben Marwood [...]" 
  3. ↑ "Tracks Monkeys With Lasers". 
  4. ↑ "Frank Turner opens up about 'weird' experience playing Olympics opening ceremony". NME.com. 2012-07-28. "[...]joined by an extended version of his band the Sleeping Souls that also included Jim Lockey, Ben Marwood and Emily Barker[...]" 
  5. ↑ "Frank Turner - Long Live the Queen". Retrieved 2009-02-07. 
  6. ↑ Marwood, Ben (2012-04-07). "The webstore cometh". Blogger. "[...]Aldershot's West End Centre on March 13, 2002 [...]" 
  7. ↑ Anderson, Stuart (2008-11-05). "Five Little Secrets by Ben Marwood". London: The Times. Retrieved 2009-02-07. 
  8. ↑ "Ben Marwood - This Is Not What You Had Planned". The Mag. 2008-06-28. Retrieved 2009-02-07. 
  9. ↑ O’Brien, Connor. "Album review: Ben Marwood - Outside There's A Curse". Alter The Press. "[...]Ben’s own label Broken Tail Records[...]" 
  10. ↑ "Ben Marwood - New single ‘Singalong’ and Frank Turner support tour". Press Counsel PR. 
  11. ↑ "Ben Marwood To Release Debut Album". Glasswerk.co.uk. 
  12. ↑ Marwood, Ben. "uk tour dates confirmed". Blog: ben marwood smells funny. 
  13. ↑ Marwood, Ben. "Something for the weekends". Blog: ben marwood smells funny. 
  14. ↑ Turner, Frank. "Addenda". frankturner.com. 
  15. ↑ "Independent record labels fear ruinous stock loss in London riots fire". The Guardian (London). 2011-08-09. 
  16. ↑ Marwood, Ben. "Things I have done in the past month". Blog: ben marwood smells funny. 
  17. ↑ "Xtra Mile High Club Vol. 3: Yanks Vs Limeys (Oh…and 1 Kraut)". Xtra Mile Recordings. 2011-09-01. 
  18. ↑ "Lamp Light The Fire: A Compilation Of Quiet(ER) Songs". Engineer Records. 
  19. ↑ "Ben Marwood working on new album". BBC News. 2011-11-18. 
  20. ↑ Marwood, Ben (2012-12-23). "An EP for free". Ben Marwood smells funny (blog). "[...]two further digital EPs are heading your way in February [...] new album in May [...]" 
  21. ↑ Marwood, Ben (2013-01-05). "New Year, New Releases". Ben Marwood smells funny (blog). "[...]two new EPs available digitally, one my very own work and one shared with my friends Quiet Quiet Band[...]" 
  22. ↑ "'Demons' Amazon listing". Amazon UK. 
  23. ↑ "'Lay Low' Amazon listing". Amazon UK. 
  24. ↑ Marwood, Ben (2013-04-01). "Back Down 2013: More Show Announcements". Ben Marwood smells funny (blog). 
  25. ↑ "Ben Marwood To Release ‘Back Down’ In May". Rock Sound. 2013-03-20. 
  26. ↑ "Ben Marwood USA tour video". The Ruckus. 2013-08-29. 
  27. ↑ "[edit] radio website". 

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