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Sean

Sean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

AUG 25, 2003 05:00 PM

At an age when most of us were worrying about our acne, Australia-born singer-songwriter Ben Lee was in a band called Noise Addict, touring the world, and making records that garnered the praise of no less than Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and the Lemonhead's Evan Dando. At 16 he made his first solo record, Grandpaw Would, followed by 1997's Something to Remember Me By, and his most commercially successful record to date, 1998's Breathing Tornadoes. Numerous setbacks, following the release of Tornadoes,...

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

AUG 25, 2003 05:07 PM

Note: At the time I wrote "Ben Lee's new cd ___ __ hits stores today.." it made sense. Took a little while for this one to go up.

Anyone else notice the bit about him, Ben Folds, and Ben Kweller being in the shower together? I asked his publicist for a fact-check on that quote, I thought I'd surely misheard, but nope, it's true. tongue

Jayne

Jayne

SUICIDEGIRL

United Kingdom

AUG 25, 2003 05:12 PM

the shower thing was sorta hard to miss smile
But I love Ben Lee! It's about damn time he's finally put something out again, I'd missed hearing him, his cds have been on my shelf too long. (Although I swear it hasn't been four or five years since his last came out...but I guess maybe it has, he knows best Anyway) I guess that means it's time to give em a whirl again, right? I think so.
I am sort of keeping my fingers crossed, I miss him as well as fountains of wayne when they were in portland in july. frown sad.

60ftQueenie

60ftQueenie

Australia
December 2002

AUG 25, 2003 09:55 PM

I love ben lee... I used to hang out with him alot at a record store I used to work in in sydney around the time of grandpaw would..... heh.. .its amazing.. but I still just see him as a geeky teenager... but his girlfriend of like 7 or 8 years if one of the biggest female stars in hollywood...

its cracks me up... and to all you non aussies out there... you want a good aussie accent... here is your man... ben lee... the quintesential aussie accent

edited due to terrible spelling!

[Edited on Aug 26, 2003 by 60ftQueenie]

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

AUG 25, 2003 10:26 PM

60ftQueenie said:
I love ben lee... I used to hang out with him alot at a ecord store I sued work in in sydney around the time of grandpaw would..... heh.. .its amazing.. but I still just see him as a geeky teenager... but his girlfriend of like 7 or 8 years if one of hte biggest female stars in hollywood...

its cracks me up... and to all you non aussies out there... you want a good aussie accent... here is your man... ben lee... the quintesential aussie accent



That's true, it's a marvelous accent. smile

Coco

Coco

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

AUG 25, 2003 10:52 PM

Nice lil interview, Keith.

I sat behind Ben Lee and Claire Danes at the Bjork concert at Radio City Music Hall (October 2001). Cute couple!

crispy

crispy

NEWSWIRE

Philadelphia, PA

AUG 25, 2003 11:10 PM

mmmm ... Clare Danes ...
good enough for me.

venal_polish

venal_polish

Australia
June 2003

AUG 25, 2003 11:22 PM

ha...thats wicked 60ft...ive never met him myself but he's actually first cousins with a friend of mine...they look rediculously similar...brown curly hair etc...and she's had dinner with claire danes bla bla bla...small crazy world.

60ftQueenie

60ftQueenie

Australia
December 2002

AUG 26, 2003 12:05 AM

intresting footnote about clairedanes (and I suppose it involes ben lee tongue ) is that she bought my friends copy of the pop up karma sutra at a stall he had at glebe markets....

woo go ben!

and great interview keith btw..... yay for interviwing ausses on this thing!

Eris

Eris

SUICIDEGIRL

Oregon, USA

AUG 26, 2003 12:07 AM

i don't care how old he is or hot hot clair danes is:

i'd be ben lee's pop queen in a heartbeat.

Cherie

Cherie

Providence, RI
October 2002

SEP 23, 2003 08:51 PM

Ben Lee rules and his new CD is amazing.love