Ben J. Gross
Benjography

  Born in London in 1976
got way into Beatniks & Mahler & Blake
sung in a funk band,drummed in a brass band
wrote first song while revising in library
wished to paint like Bacon or Chagall
and see like Bosch
, heard Dylan & Waits
Bowie, scraped a literature degree, ran 
to Languedocian refuge of inspiration
learnt guitar, sang French & Catalan songs
alongside Whiskey In The Jar and now moves
from exile to the kingdom 

COLLABORATORS
( in roughly chronological order) :

Sam Gross (brother)
Azim Siddiqi, Shane Duffy (The Remains)
Gary Feldman, Duncan Hiscock, Sam Gilbert (The Hippy Childminders)
Sam Gilbert (Herbert's Tree & Other Stories)
Oli Hudson, Chris Jones, Dan Taffler (The Unusual)
Jamie Butterworth, Kez Wickersham, Simon Fiddler, Chris Bee
Graham the Fiddler, Steve the Open-Mic, Johnny "Snake-hips" Johnson
The late, great Jon Featonby, Terry Charles, Rafael Placowski
Lolo, Noon, Josep Peisley, Tom "Yult" Olivier (Dub Corporation)
Pascal Torta, Holysmoke Spook, 
Oli Hudson (The Riddling Reavers), Kieran Pierce, Charles Board
Alain Lebret, Cyrille Barre, Linda "Josephine" Messenger,
Jon Bawn, Jacques Bernier (The Lazybones)
Sion Littledyke - CODA productions
Seb, Sylvain et Clément des Barons Perchés
Nicolas Caudeville, Joan Planes
Marc Aubard, Christophe Tomasin, Jean-Phi Durand
(The Ghost Office)

mis-Spent yOuth - The Unusual in 1996
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