A great start!

bensommers — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:59:02 +0000

It’s been a week since Avocado Chip has been available to download and I’ve been overwhelmed buy the support it’s been getting. Some very lovely reviews have been appearing all over the internet and my twitter inbox has been crammed with messages, so thank you to everyone who has downloaded it so far, your support is much appreciated! I wanted to share with you this.. iTunes very kindly featured Avocado Chip on the front page of their store in the ‘New and Noteworthy’ section (they also put it on their Alternative and Singer/songwriter front pages)..

Hello..

bensommers — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:15:32 +0000

Hello.. 27.09.2011

My debut release, Avocado Chip is being released on Monday (3rd October 2011) and I’m pretty excited/ pretty scared about it.

This state of excitement/fear I find myself in on a warm Tuesday evening at the end of September 2011 is one of an unfamiliar feeling. After a few years of writing and playing my songs live, trudging through all the ‘toilet’ venues of London and other bits of England – good gigs, bad gigs, sharing stages with GREAT bands, BAD bands, wondering ‘why am I doing this’, ‘will it be worth it…’. I sit here tonight with a final master of a solo album I have worked on for two years.. How do I feel? Like I said – excited and scared.

I never set out to be a musician. In fact I wouldn’t label my self a musician. Never had any lessons, never learnt scales or theory – I just like making noise and sometimes that noise falls into the format of a song. It makes me feel something that nothing else in the world does. When I’ve sat down in front of my laptop, plugged in a microphone and pressed record, not knowing what is going to come out of my head – and seven or so hours later I hit the play button and listen to what I have just created, it makes me feel – well, it’s indescribable. It’s a good feeling though, I promise you that. And so I do it again – and again.. and I keep doing it – and so at some point I wanted to sing these songs in front of people.. and so I did.. and I liked that too.. a lot.

So now it’s a warm Tuesday evening at the end of September 2011 and after a few years of getting better at writing songs and playing them in front of people I feel ready to take that next step into the big wide world and actually release these songs properly… and that’s where the excitement/ fear bit comes from.. will these people like the songs enough to buy them? I’ll keep making them even if they don’t, because like I said, it’s that feeling I get when I make them that I like.

Ben x

Here is my recent single release ‘Elephant, You” .. enjoy!

Avocado Chip the album is out on Monday (3rd October) from iTunes..