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Name:
Tim Bennett
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8,966
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Style:
Indie Rock
Joined:
Jul 19, 2006
Latest Activity:
3 days ago
Subscribers:
130
Website:
full-length produced videos & live performance videos
About Me:
Bennett's emotive use of lyrics metaphorically encapsulates his demons and triumphs set against modern soulful rock melodies. His fans responded back in full force with a ground breaking action- they personally funded this thinking man's rock and roll band's first studio album "Miseducated" raising over $30,000 through Sellaband.
The enthusiastic cry of Bennett's fans waving dollar bills to get this guy into a studio caught the attention of two ubër multi-platinum music professionals: Steve Hardy, Master Mixing Engineer, whose Grammy Award winning work includes such artists as Alicia Keyes, U2, Jay-Z, Prince, etc and secondly, Master Mixer Ted Jensen, who has worked with everyone from The Police, to Madonna, Green Day, Dave Matthew's Band, etc and won a Grammy for his work on Norah Jones' Album of the Year Come Away with Me. Add Producer Jeff Thall into the mix, this dream team got hooked on Tim's poetic addictive sound, honest lyrics and began recording Bennett's "rock collage of everything I've ever loved and probably some things I didn't" in New York City.
The first single off the album, "Black Rain" is an infectious sing-at the-top-of-your lungs-with-the-car-windows-rol
He's painted houses, acted in award winning commercials, canvassed for political organizations; he's been a courier, been photographed for Vogue, Bazaar, Armani and GQ; he's worked as a translator, a cook and dancer, but he has never sold his soul. Tim has had lunch with Mussolini's grand daughter, he's performed live in Kate Moss' living room, he's been abducted by an Italian Countess, lunched with Kylie Minogue, and survived two major earthquakes! Tim was forced to drink a pint of Cobra's blood in China, he was arrested for spying, protected by the Mafia, and dated Miss Italy; he was kissed by an Orang Utan in the jungles of Borneo, suffered temporary blindness, and has camped in the rain forests of Central America. Tim was the first white man to meet the Sultan of Brunei's witch doctor, been scolded by the Queen Mother, and has climbed the highest mountain in Southeast Asia. His music reflects a life lived in comfortable nooks and on the emotional fringe.
When asked what was one of his most memorable music moments is besides playing in his favourite spot "Water Rats" in London, Bennett responded, "Singing in the New York Subway. There was a very old Chinese man who kept getting up and putting a dollar in my case until he'd given me nine bucks. When I said thank you - he said that I sang from the heart with such passion that people needed to hear what I was saying and he was giving me the money so I could make a CD." Tim seems to make a lot of people feel that way about him. - by Mary Ann Rounseville
Record Label:
SELF RELEASED
Label Type:
Independent
Band Members:
tim bennett , ed wright, duncan haynes,
Influences:
CHAOS,BEAUTY, LOVE, ISOLATION, FAMILY, SADNESS, ANGER, FRIENDS, THINKING TOO MUCH, TRUTH , POLITICIANS AND THEIR GREEDY GAMES, FREEDOM, LIES, BEAUTY,HEADLINES & MEDIA MANIPULATION, LIBERTY, DECEPTION, SELF BELIEF, PAIN, ANGUISH, RAIN, FOOD AND MUSIC IF IT'S SINCERE!
Sounds Like:
Jeff Buckley, U2, Foo Fighters, Snow Patrol, Radiohead, Starsailor, Johnny Cash, Coldplay, Queen , Pink Floyd
Hometown:
Tuscaloosa AL
Country:
United States
Occupation:
musician
Companies:
Tim Bennett & Civilized Tears
Schools:
Won Scholarship to Cheadle Hulme School Stockport Tech College (studied Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics) , Trent University - only stayed for one year - left to travel the world and follow my dreams
Interests:
Life and beyond
Movies:
Too many to mention
Music:
Anything that gives me goose bumps
Books:
Too many to mention
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