Benjamin Shaw

The Carpeteer - Benjamin Shaw from Antiherovideo on Vimeo.



When I Fell Over in the City - Benjamin Shaw from Antiherovideo on Vimeo.



'I Got the Pox, the Pox is What I Got' EP is available for order. So please do. I'm really quite happy with it. You can order by clicking on the Pox image below which will take you to our lovely friends at Audio Antihero.

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Born to soiled genes and a small northern town playing second fiddle to the despair-Mecca of Blackpool, life was never going to be all beer and skittles.



After a period of particular awfulness and a short descent into madness, Benjamin Shaw awoke sober one lunchtime, to find himself happily married and living in Melbourne, Australia. So with steps full of spring and a newly gained ‘can-do’ spirit, the happy couple seized the day and followed their hearts up the river of golden dreams, all the way to a tiny, grey, one-bedroom flat in North London.



Lurching from one disastrous Customer Service job to the next, and each day turning to nought but filth, there was one of two paths Shaw could take to escape – either write the next great British novel, boldly staking claim to all that is good and pure in the land; or buy a pushbike and pedal himself into oncoming traffic. Luckily, Shaw had neither talent nor bicycle clips, and instead sat in bars and wrote songs.



’I Got the Pox, the Pox is What I Got’ is six and a half songs of nausea, noise, love, desperation, hope and hilarious anecdote.



With passions for Sparklehorse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Young and Waits; and combining abstract storytelling with fiery musical cluster bombs, Benjamin Shaw has given us a beautifully bitter debut that boasts both fragile innocence and homicidal fantasy - an unforgettable and purifying experience. Get the Pox.



Press:



“as good as Bill Smog and that Palace Brothers guy.” Nic Dalton, Lemonheads



“I just listened to I Got the Pox.it was as magnificent at the end of the 3rd listen as it was at the start of the first.” Jack Hayter, Hefner



“slightly unpleasant … it’s the deal of the century” Audio Democracy



“All I really remembered was him playing tuning pipes as a mouth organ.” Theo Graham-Brown, Pocus Whiteface



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