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BenTunnicliffe

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  • Birthday 16/01/1991

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  1. Hi Folks, I'm cleaning my bass up including a trip to the luthier and I've decided to polish up the hardware myself purely because I've never seen it 'as new' in the time I've been with this bass. From the pictures, can someone tell me A) What's the metal? and B) What off-the-shelf product would you recommend to try and get these tuning pegs shinin' once more?
  2. Depending when it is in the year, any day except Friday or Saturday is my preference as those are the two days that gigs land on most frequently but I appreciate that is the opposite to people with a traditional 9-5!
  3. Hey Everyone, I recently put together a video of my personal highlights as a studio bass player from between 2008 and 2021. Some of which are still available for purchase on CDs! You can watch the video on Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. Some musical theatre reading sessions, folk-pop stuff and even a dash of spoken word in there! Cheers for listening. B
  4. New acoustic cover of Corinne Bailey Rae's 'Put Your Records On' has just been uploaded in full to TikTok / Youtube with me on double bass.
  5. Acoustic cover of Beyoncé's 'Drunk In Love' has just been uploaded in full to TikTok / Youtube / Reddit / Facebook / Tumblr with myself on double bass.
  6. Hi Folks, Today I've announced the run of shows I'm doing with my new project which has myself on bass duties, Maria Lamburn on bass clarinet, Laurie Agnew on drums and Ross Hicks on keyboards. The new compositions we're exploring are all in a Jazz vein and explore the notion of bringing synths into the genre in the pursuit of alien beauty, landing with the impact of electronic music and the fragility of improvisation. Please say 'hi' if you do make it along! Feb 16th - Holyhead Feb 17th - Conwy March 9th - Glasgow March 27th - Bath April 20th - Criccieth April 21st - Blaenau Ffestiniog April 22nd - Caernarfon
  7. I've just dug up some footage from jazz fusion band Antelope's UK tour back in 2015 and found a great snippet of Chris Young tearing it on alto while I'm on bass synth duties (Roland GAIA, Radial DI). This clip is from the excellent venue Bloc+ in Glasgow where the whole night was a storm! The band is now defunct and this tune 'Glass' was never released, along with the majority of the band's repertoire. Watch Video On TikTok | Watch Video on Instagram | Watch Video on Youtube | Watch Video on Reddit | Watch Video on Facebook | Watch Video on Twitter | Watch Video on Tumblr
  8. My Double Bass Solo over a new composition 'Ty Unos' earlier this month with the Jochen Eisentraut trio at The Blue Bell, Conwy, North Wales 14/10/22 (choose your fave social media outlet!) Instagram Video | Reddit Video | Watch on Tumblr| Watch On Facebook | Watch On Twitter | Watch on YouTube
  9. My Double Bass Solo over a new composition 'Ty Unos' earlier this month with the Jochen Eisentraut trio at The Blue Bell, Conwy, North Wales 14/10/22 (choose your fave social media outlet!) Instagram Video | Reddit Video | Watch On Youtube| Watch On Twitter | Tumblr Video | Watch on Facebook|
  10. Hi Folks, For my own original music's gigs, recording & touring I am struggling to find the right keyboard player. I need a musician who is: UK Based (ideally Herefordshire, Bristol, Cardiff or North Wales but I'm open to all suggestions) Interested in Jazz, World Music, Ambient Music Has a poly synth as well as a synth for lead lines with a passion for programming each Experienced Jazz chops for comp-ing and soloing Willing to memorise tunes rather than sight read Willing to come along for the social media ride (allowing me to film videos etc.) Open to doing gigs that do not pay a great deal but that never make a loss Friendly Importantly, while a fully-fledged jazz musician is fine by me, I am also genuinely open to working with the right inexperienced young player if they're genuinely passionate about the music. The music I write is certainly jazz-adjacent with a need for a keyboard player who can improvise but a key passion of mine is that I am endeavouring to create Jazz that involves synths but in a pursuit of beauty rather than in the pursuit of heavyness or funkyness. Think Weather Report and Joe Zawinul's solo work rather than Herbie Hancock's Headhunters. There is a ban on piano and Fender Rhodes in this group. I have hours of fully-written music demo'ed up, venues in mind, years of experience and I'll personally be doing all the boring admin once I find the right person. I am also hosting a jam through the tunes in Bristol early November if anyone does show interest. Although it has not yet gigged, the touring line-up of the band is drums, myself on keyboard bass, front-line horn and then said keys player on chords + top line counter melodies. Two representative tunes for a ballpark: Little Lions - Il Mare Weather Report - Brown Street Please let your keys-playing friends know by sharing this post and let them know they can contact me via any social media outlet if they have an interest in doing some playing. Cheers!
  11. That bass was very good to me but unfortunately had to be sold when I sold every bit of my gear a few years out due to personal reasons. I think it was recently traded here on Basschat but I didn't have the money to have it back in my hands. A beautiful instrument that I'd want to own again but mainly as a thanks to it for being with me through such a long and formative stretch of my 'career'. Cruise ships, musicals, studio sessions, it did it all!
  12. Thanks very much! It felt painfully awkward to try and capture odd bits across the day but with the industry being what it is these days and there being every chance I won't buy another bass until 2034 I thought it might be worth giving it a go!
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