Stephen James Bennett

Stephen (James) Bennett is an English musician, writer and film maker born in Skelmersdale, Lancashire. He plays various keyboards, drums and the guitar. He first came to public attention in the band LaHost in the 1980s as part of the New wave of progressive rock who had headlined at the Marquee Club in London.

Since the Lahost split, Bennett has pursued music careers with his own band The Fire Thieves, and worked with Tim Bowness and the band Henry Fool. He also sang and played keyboards on two of The Opium Cartel albums.

His 2014 collaboration with Tim Bowness, Abandoned Dancehall Dreams^[1] reached number 18 in the UK Rock Chart. A co-composed track from the album, Smiler at 50, was nominated for a Prog magazine award in 2014.

Another collaboration with Tim Bowness, Stupid things that mean the world^[2] reached number 10 in the UK Rock Chart.

Bennett has co-composed the majority of the songs on Tim Bowness' 2017 album, Lost in the Ghost light as well as playing keyboards, guitar, editing, recordig and preparing material for mixing by Steven Wilson.

Bennett also collaborated with Lady Sara Rönneke, David Torn, Hugh Hopper and David Picking. He has made music videos for Tim Bowness and Peter Chilvers and No-Man and has completed one narrative short film, The Perfect Number.

He has written about Apple's Logic Pro Digital Audio Workstation software for Sound on Sound, amongst others, as well as several books on music technology for PC-Publishing. He writes for Audiomedia, Tape-op, Pro sound news and Electronic sound magazines.

Select discography

• LaHost 'Erotic Antiques' (UGUM MSI 1992)
• The Fire Thieves 'Slow dancing in the big city' (Chaos 1991)
• The Fire Thieves 'Sweet' (Chaos 1993)
• The Fire Thieves 'Clarity' (Chaos 1997)
• SplatterCell (David Torn) 'Remiksis Ah' (CellDivide 200)
• henry fool 'henry fool' ^[3](K-Scope 2001)
• henry fool 'Pills in the Afternoon' (Piotr Kosinski compilation 2002)
• No-Man Together We're Stranger ^[4](Snapper 2003) - Video of 'Things I want to tell you' included on the 5:1 re-release, 2007
• Rhinoceros 'Tiny Ghosts' (Burning Shed 2003)
• Tim Bowness 'My Hotel Year' (One Little Indian 2004)
• No-Man Schoolyard Ghosts ^[5](K-Scope 2008)
• The Fire Thieves 'Back to Stereo'^[6] (Chaos 2009)
• No-Man Love and Endings^[7] (K-Scope 2011)
• Henry Fool Men Singing ^[8](K-Scope 2014)
• The Opium Cartel Night Blooms^[9] (Termo Records 2009)
• The Opium Cartel Ardor^[10] (Termo Records 2014)
• Tim Bowness Abandoned Dancehall Dreams (Inside Out Music 2015)
• Tim Bowness Stupid things that mean the world (Inside Out Music 2016)
• Tim Bowness Lost in the Ghost Light (Inside Out Music 2017)

References

External links

• Stephen Bennett's official website
• LaHost website
• Sound on Sound magazine example article
• Audiomedia example article.