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Ben Hemming
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min
Disaster in December
To be totally honest with you I'm glad to see the back of 2018, the year ended in bit of a disaster really... to say things didn't go according to plan is a bit of an understatement. To begin with things seemed to be going well enough, I had a last practice with my band before recording began, which seemed to go well, and then we went off into the night to have a beer or two, and from that point on wards things seemed to go slightly pear shaped. The next day I was due to have
Ben Hemming
- Dec 1, 2018
- 2 min
New Album Underway Soon...
December looks set to become one of my busiest months to date and gets the ball rolling on what is to be a very hectic schedule for me. On the 7th of December I will be locking myself away in the recording studio with my band to finally begin work on my new album 'The Devil Beside Me'. It feels like it's been a long road leading up to this point and so much seems to have happened since I released my last album in 2017, 'City of Streets'. I've been on two European tours, playe
Ben Hemming
- Feb 1, 2017
- 2 min
The heaven and hell of recording
If somethings hard then it's usually worth doing, and this is especially true of the recording process. I can't say that it's been easy recording my new album 'City of Streets', it's been tough to say the least, but I can say that it has been rewarding if not a totally enjoyable experience. Although I'm only half way though the process, I've learnt so much that I already feel I'm better at my craft than I was when I began this journey. The recording in earnest is now finished
Ben Hemming
- Jan 1, 2017
- 3 min
New Year, New Goals...
2017 promises to be quite a year if things go according to plan, with some big things lined up for the future. The biggest, and most immediate, being the recording of a new album. It's something that I've been working on for a while my last album 'Broken Man', released in 2015, seems like an eon ago. And a lot has changed since those two weeks in April that I sat down in my home studio and recorded the 12 songs that made up the release. It seems amazing to look back now that
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