THE LODGER: Ben - singing, the guitar. Joe - the bass guitar. Bruce - the drums, singing + Tim - lap steel/2nd guitar joining the band live + occasionally Sarah - background vocals, percussion.
CONTACTS:
Any press or radio enquiries relating to the new single please contact Luis at Elefant Records: elefant@elefant.com
Any press or radio enquiries relating to the new single please contact Luis at Elefant Records: elefant@elefant.com
OUR SECOND ALBUM 'LIFE IS SWEET' IS OUT NOW!..
Tracklisting:
1. My Finest Hour 2. The Good Old Days 3. Falling Down 4. Honey 5. The Conversation 6. A Hero's Welcome 7. A Year Since Last Summer 8. An Unwelcome Guest 9. Running Low 10. Nothing Left (To Say) 11. Famous Last Words
Buy in UK - http://badsneakers.co.uk/BSR/BSR-SHOP.html
Buy in Germany - http://www.amazon.de/Life-Sweet-Lodger/dp/B0016420QQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1211119326&sr=8-1
Buy in USA - http://www.amazon.com/Life-Sweet-Lodger/dp/B00163LU9U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1211119362&sr=8-1
Buy in Japan - http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail/2684631
BUY OUR DEBUT ALBUM ON CD!
Our debut album "Grown-Ups" was released in the UK on Monday June 11th 2007 on Angular Records (CD/download) and in North America/Canada on Monday June 4th 2007 on Slumberland Records (CD/LP worldwide).
Tracklisting:
1. Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion / 2. Kicking Sand / 3. Getting Special / 4. You Got Me Wrong / 5. A Free Period / 6. Simply Left Behind / 7. My Advice Is On Loan / 8. Let Her Go / 9. Watching / 10. Unsatisfied / 11. The Story's Over / 12. Not So Fast / 13. Bye Bye / 14. Let's Make A Pact
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
a year ago, in a record store that i spent every saturday at and is now closed, i was sifting through a pile of cd's. i found all these speak & spell albums, and found "grown-ups". i eventually saved you onto my computer, a year later. i listened to all of it. and i think it's quite lovely. word
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