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STORY



The Lodger are:



Ben Siddall: vocals, guitar, piano

Joe Margetts: bass guitar

Bruce Renshaw: drums & percussion

Tim Corbridge: 2nd guitar & lap steel



The Lodger was formulated by Pontefract-born songwriter, singer and guitarist Ben Siddall inside a Leeds bedsit in 2004 as a solo project, quickly becoming a 3, then a 4-piece. After a few well-received 7-inch singles on a variety of independent labels such as Angular Records and Dance to the Radio, a debut album titled “Grown-Ups” was released in June 2007 around the world.



This was swiftly followed up by a second record in May 2008, “Life is Sweet” which was again licensed to various labels all over the universe including the legendary Slumberland Records in the USA (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Crystal Stilts) and coincided with tours of UK, Europe, Japan and USA and festivals.



A new 4 song 7” E.P. led by the track “I Think I Need You” will be released this June by Elefant Records of Madrid (Camera Obscura, Au Revoir Simone et al), just in time for the sunshine.in the meantime Ben is locked in the study with guitars and keyboards and notebooks until Album 3 pops out. For the new material which the band are currently rehearsing, the personnel of the group continues to grow – adding trumpet, saxophone and viola.



DISCOGRAPHY



CD - Dance to the Radio: Leeds featuring Unsatisfied (Dance to the Radio) April 2005 SOLD OUT

7" single - Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion (Dance to the Radio) May 2005 SOLD OUT

Split 7" single - Getting Special (Wrath) June 2005 SOLD OUT

CD on front of Thee Humbug Issue 3 featuring Unsatisfied (Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation) September 2005 SOLD OUT

7" single - Watching/Not So Fast (Double Dragon) December 2005 SOLD OUT

CD - What We All Want featuring You Got Me Wrong (Dance to the Radio) February 2006

7" single - Let Her Go (Angular) May 2006

CD - Blue Skies Up: Welcome to the New Pop Revolution featuring Not So Fast (Dogbox) May 2006

CD - Future Love Songs featuring Simply Left Behind (Angular) Nov 2006

CD - On the Bone Vol 1 featuring Let's Make A Pact (On the Bone) Feb 2007

Digital Download single - Kicking Sand/Centuries (Angular) Apr 2007

CD/LP - Grown-Ups (Angular/Speak N Spell/Noise Deluxe/Fabtone/Slumberland) June 2007

7" single - The Good Old Days (Bad Sneakers Records) May 2008 SOLD OUT

CD/LP - Life Is Sweet (Bad Sneakers Records/Slumberland/Noise Deluxe/Fabtone) May 2008



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