Australia's Folk-Punk Troubadour
Friday, 31 July 2020 It was 3 years ago now that my management advised me to continue My Life On The Road by writing about ‘All The Little Things’ that I had to do prior to hitting the road on my 91 day European tour, August to November 2017. The amount of prep needed for a venture of that kind,
THE BENNY MAYHEM BAND’S SAVE THE KOALAS TOUR ** PLEASE COME AND DONATE ** All proceeds from the fund-raising tour will be donated to Wildlife Victoria with assistance from Rotary International. The Koalas and Wildlife of Victoria were devastated by the 2019-20 Bushfires. We have put this tour together, consisting of free-entry shows that people can come along to and
BENNY MAYHEM – ON THE RUN LIVE @ THE INDI BAR (UNPLUGGED) Part of our set from Club Acoustica, Indi Bar Scarborough, 7th of March 2018. Click here to see our favourite 9 Benny Mayhem Videos
BENNY MAYHEM – SONG FOR ABSENT FRIENDS OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO Featuring members of Project Mayhem, The Caballeros, FAIM and The Benny Mayhem Band. This video has over 300 hours of post production and filming. Shot both on location and on a big screen screen, it tells the story of Benny finding old band-mates and friends in battered televisions across WA
BENNY MAYHEM ‘BULWER STREET WALTZ’ OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO Shot at the Irish Club of WA, Bulwer Street Waltz is just 90 seconds of absolute Aussie/Irish/Folk-Punk including a mandolin solo through a Marshall stack. It was filmed in one long take with no edits, each of the cast rehearsing their parts at the right time of the track so the story
Download Or Stream Here In May 2015 I sat down with my buddies Stefan and Wheels at Brianiac Studios in Yokine, Western Australia, to have a chat for their Reverb. podcast series. It was stacks of fun. The result is a really, really extensive interview that covers my formative years in The Hydey punk scene; playing in bands like zxspecky and Project Mayhem, and running Blazing
CDs Available On Bandcamp Mindless Greg The Media Consumer was recorded on a whim. I’d landed a sweet deal for an afternoon’s recording at Spirit Recording Studios in SW11, on the south bank of the Thames, London. At the time I still had it in my head that my earlier demo recordings would comprise an album, so I wanted to do
iTunes • Rdio • SoundCloud • Spotify • Triple J Unearthed • YouTube Written in Leederville W.A. in mid-2012, the tune came to me instantly, but it had some rather bollocks lyrics. “My name is Ben and I’m bored and enraged…” – I guess I was finishing up one era of my life and beginning a new one. But it was never a serious matter. Meanwhile I’d developed this idea of