Ben Lovett
Ben Lovett
Ben Lovettis a current American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer from Georgia. Lovett is the founder of record label, Lovers Label. His non-film compositions are released under the names LOVETT and Lovers & Friends...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSinger
Date of Birth30 September 1986
CountryUnited States of America
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I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
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I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.
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Communion was born out of shared frustration in 2006. We felt that although the likes of MySpace and YouTube opened up the playing field for songwriters online, people's discovery of these new artists was only skin deep.
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There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
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I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.
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Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
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A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.