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mitch benn & The distractions - the rhyme lord tour 2010 - extra date added

We've added another date to the tour; 31st October at The Trades Club in Hebden Bridge (should be a laugh; Halloween and Kirsty's home town).

The complete list of dates is as follows (click on links to buy tickets):

SEPTEMBER

11th DIDCOT Cornerstone

15th CROYDON Clocktower

16th HARROW Arts Centre

18th ST. ALBANS Maltings Theatre

23rd BATH Komedia

24th SELBY Town Hall

29th DERBY Darwin Suite

30th READING South Street Arts Centre

OCTOBER

1st READING South Street Arts Centre

2nd BASINGSTOKE Central Studio

5th SHEFFIELD Memorial Hall

6th BANBURY Mill Arts Centre

7th BRIGHTON Komedia

8th WOLVERHAMPTON Little Civic

9th LEEDS Carriageworks

15th DARTMOUTH The Flavel

21st NEWBURY New Greenham Arts

23rd LEICESTER The Musician

29th EDINBURGH Queens Hall

31st HEBDEN BRIDGE The Trades Club

NOVEMBER

1st HULL Truck Theatre

3rd LONDON Bloomsbury Theatre

5th HIGH WYCOMBE Town Hall

12th MANCHESTER Dancehouse

DECEMBER

3rd CANTERBURY Gulbenkian Theatre

4th NEW MILTON Forest Arts

WIN ONE LOSE ONE - world cup song

I've written a World Cup song, very different to any I've heard before; have a listen or download at the music page....

election 2010 mini-album - available for download (and free track)

I've compiled a mini-album of the songs I did for The Vote Now Show (and a bunch of others which either weren't transmitted or were written for something else); it's available now exclusively from my download store.  Hope you enjoy it.

Edited to add: I've now put ONE of the tracks up as a free preview download on the music page.

Amanda Palmer & Me Sounding Like Coldplay

Here's a nice clip of Amanda Palmer & me doing That Bloody Song at the EvelynEvelyn show at the Bush Hall on April 25th (thanks to Drew Forrest)

So which Vote Now Shows am I in then?

As you may have noticed, the Now Show has re-worked its format in the run-up to the election on May 6th and is now going out three times a week, on Mondays Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 11pm.

To keep stress levels to a minimum, only Steve & Hugh will appear in every show; the rest of the regulars will take turns with guest performers.

For reference's sake, the shows I'M in are as follows:

Monday April 12

Wednesday April 21

Monday April 26

Wednesday May 5th

... plus one other which they haven't given me a date for yet (sigh).

Hope that clears things up; off to do a blog entry now (no, really...).

welcome to mitchbenn.com

Go to the online music store to download my latest album Where Next and my previous albums.

Or go to Amazon.co.uk to order them on CD.

exclusive christmas mini-album - download now

My mini-album of Christmas songs, It's Christmas Whether You Like It Or Not, is now available for download exclusively from my online music store. I've put some previews up on my MySpace page for you to listen to.

bbc four comedy song docs back on iplayer; MBMC repeated

The two documentaries on comedy songs to which I contributed (Comedy Songs: The Pop Years and Time Shift: The Comic Songbook), first shown this time last year, have just been repeated again on BBC Four, and as such are once more available to view via the BBC iPlayer (click on the titles to see each show). 

Meanwhile I've just noticed they're repeating the first series of The Mitch Benn Music Show on BBC7 (nobody ever tells me anything). 

Kirsty in Bass guitar magazine

Click here to download a .jpg of our beloved Kirsty Newton's interview in Bass Guitar Magazine (Chili Peppers, now there's a thought...)

thank you

A big thanks to all who came to see us on our 2009 tour.  It's been a great one and has put me in a good frame of mind for the coming year (see the blog).  

Meanwhile I've updated the gigs page to include all my stand-up gigs from now until the end of the year.