Big ol' Update: BBC Live Sessions, NEW benmale/hello, Album No.4, NEW Shop.

BBC Live Sessions

Hello all! It's been a hot minute since my last update, so please enjoy this special bumper edition. There is unfortunately no toy to collect or free CD though, sorry about that.

It's been a super busy summer finishing up the next album, more on that in a bit - but I'm happy to report that it's more or less done, with my first new singles coming Oct 31st and Nov 28th this year! Very excited to share those with you. 

To top off a busy few months, and with absolutely perfect timing, the lovely Angelle Joseph from BBC Introducing in Suffolk & Norfolk reached out to me and invited me along to record some live sessions. As I type this I'm fresh back from the studio, I had a really great time. Thanks to all of you for the opportunity, I'm so glad you all enjoyed it as much as I did.

I did three tracks along with an interview, two of which are from the upcoming album and have yet to be released!

The broadcast date is currently TBC, but I'll be sure to update you when I have the details so you don't miss your chance to hear the new ones, assuming this goes out before the new tracks do!

Make sure you're following, I'll ping out the date + time for that when I have it.

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benmale.co.uk/hello

In other news, I've made some improvements to benmale.co.uk/hello this week!

In an ever changing online landscape, I've always been keen to keep anything you could ever need available via my website in one place, rather than scattered all over the internet.

Traditional websites, however, leave very little room for everyone to get involved and have their say - modern social media is also lacking this in it's current form, so I'm hoping the new benmale/hello can be our new hangout space. 

One of the most important parts of doing this is talking to all of you - something which I used to love and have very little opportunity to do now online, so I'm hoping that as more of you start listening and get involved that this will fix that! 

There is a board for all releases, past and present, a general discussion board which I'll check in on regularly, a live chat room called Shoutbox available in desktop mode on all pages and for now, a Please Read welcome board explaining what on earth this 2009 era forum is doing on my website. 

Right now it's brand new, so it's pretty bare bones (though you can of course help to fix that by signing up and saying hello!), but this will be the future home where I can hang out online with you all, get your input on set lists and talk about where to book shows, share new ideas and chat with you live as new music as about to release, just as we used to. Speaking of which... 

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Album no.4

I've been quietly working away in the background since my last show on my next album, currently untitled, and am pleased to report that it is more or less finished! 

I'll have more details to share soon, including track names, run time etc - but for now, you an expect the first singles on the 31st Oct and 28th Nov. 

Please also enjoy the amazing artwork which I've had comissioned for the album, created by my wonderful mother, Karol. I love it, thank you so much. X 

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NEW Shop

And last, but not least, and about bloody time - you can finally actually buy real things on this website. Merch?? Crazy, I know. 

There are currently only three things to choose from, bare with me, but for now if you're after a CD copy of Everything's Fine, a signed lyrics card or a Before I Go compact cassette, then please fill your boots!

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If you've made it this far, please now go and find something else to do. And thank you, of course. As always I'll have more to share with you soon. 

Until then, thanks! 

Ben.