Hello..

Mooli on Radio 1Well it was a good end to the week, finding out that san Francisco rain is this week's essential new tune on BBC radio 1, with Pete Tong on friday.

This is a little bit embarrassing, but also quite pleasing at the same time in a way.

Happy Easter!

As you may know by now, the plan is that the next mooli album will feature guest vocalists!


Just posted a new song working title' Black spring' featuring singer, Hannah from x factor, which we're thinking about releasing as a download single.. Mooli feat Hannah.

Here is a link to Hannah on youtube..


Hannah






What do you reckon to her voice?

Also, a new dance remix of ' San Francisco Rain' is sounding really good! I went out to a club and heard it played on saturday, and it went down really well. More remixes are getting done, and they'll be a sample of it up here on Youtube soon. Already, it's has attracted the attentions of a couple of labels. More news about that soon!

Ben :)






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Well, it's february already! Can't believe it's almost valentines day? Lol.. and , so soon after christmas. Indeed time is racing on again!

But it's been a while since there's been a Mooli gig. That's been the case for several reasons, which will take another blog to fully explain, and go into, but the good news is that there will be a gig in May . On May 29th to be exact, and it will be at the Wychwood Festival at Cheltenham racecourse, with a new live line up. The festival featured newcomer ' Duffy' last year!

We are performing on the BBC stage, and quite excited to see some of the other acts on, which include ' The wonder stuff' Alice Gunn, Natalie Ross, Orphans and Vandals, Dan Whitehouse. Over the course of the weekend, Supergrass, and one of my favourite bands ever ' The Beat' will also be playing, and loads of other good bands. Watch out for a piece in the Independent newspaper soon, and there is talk of a compilation album being put together - possibly to come out via the Indie or one of the other broadsheets .
There is a piece in the NME about it..

http://www.nme.com/news/supergrass/42340

Apart from that, quite excited about a new dance remix of 'San francisco rain' that's being finalised at the moment by a top Remixer.. I've heard the early version of it, and it sounds excellent!! So can't wait to hear the final version..

Also , been doing some writing on a couple of things.. Amongst other things, I have been writing ' top lines' for a new track by the legendary DMC , from Run DMC. That man can rap!! Been quite challenging coming up with chorus ideas for his tune, but the rap is so good, I am determined to nail it once and for all. ..Either way, it's gonna be a wicked record, time it comes out!

No, this isn't another blog about Barack, as much as I'm pleased to see him voted in as President, and leader of the so called free world.

Been pretty slack on the Blogging front lately, for numerous reasons, The chief one being , that I've been in the studio writing lots of new tracks- not all for Mooli I hasten to add.

I have a new manager, who is really well connected especially in America, and he's been putting together some great co - writes with people having a lot of success there and Internationally.

I've been getting together with some cool new co- writers, and writing for other artists, in different genres, and I've got to say, I'm enjoying it immensely. No playing involved on my part, just writing the actual songs.

Some of the people I'm working with have some great tracks under their belt, with US artists like Aretha Franklin, kanye West, Pussycat Dolls, John Legend and Jordin Sparks to name but a few, and I've been doing what's known in the industry as ' top lines'. Basically writing the song to their tracks. It's something I've had success doing over many years and I love it, and it's a different form of expression to composing the music.

I have to admit it can be emotionally draining though, going back over past experiences, and pouring your heart out, time and time again. I find I get more tired, and my mood is subject to change depending on what I'm talking about in the song. It's almost like being an actor, and having to go into character, and taking your character home with you.

I guess it's also like therapy in a way, which is a good thing, apparently, lol. Anyway I am really happy with the songs I've written. One called ' Empty ' and another called ' set it all aside' that I especially love, and the feedback so far has been really positive, so we'll see what happens.

With those sort of songs, you've just got to let go of them, once you've written them, and let them have a life of their own. Can't be too precious about them really, as much as you love them .

In the past few months I've been fortunate enough to have Companies like Disney wanting songs I've written, and I have now got three songs coming out on movies, which is something I've wanted for a while. It's like buses- you wait so long for one, then 2 or 3 turn up at the same time, near enough. Of course, the wait for the royalties is another story, lol.

I think anyone who reads these blogs knows by now that ' One Design' is on a film soundtrack. The film is called Gnaw. It's a British film, and I see that there is a link to the trailer for the movie. I have no idea when it's coming out, but assume it will be sometime in the new year. All I know is that One design is featured in a big love scene.

Here is the link, if you're not feeling too squeamish! Haha
Gnaw Trailer

Ben :) xx

It's been quite a week.

Apart from the fact that history has been made with the election of the incredibly intelligent and charismatic Barack Obama ( I wonder how long it will take for computer spell checkers to catch up) , it would also have been my dear old mum's birthday this week. Shame she never lived to see the day ( she would have been 66 this year). I can just imagine how she would have felt, witnessing scenes around the world of people celebrating the election of a black US President. Now that ( something which seemed unthinkable not so long ago) been achieved, I really hope that everyone comes together regardless of race, religion, and all the old, outdated divides, and work together.

It's time we all got rid of the village mentality and realise that we're all just people living together on the planet at the same time. And no, I'm not a hippy in case you're wondering, lol.

On the day of the election, I recorded a new song' Give off ' with singer, Natalie Ross. We only spent a few hours on the track, so we will probably do some more work on it , once we've lived with it a bit, but thought I'd road test it here for a few days to see what the reaction is to it. Not sure what is gonna happen to the tune at the mo..although It might be billed as Mooli feat Natalie Ross, at some stage next year. We'll have to see how the album is taking shape in the next few months. Hopefully things will work itself out.

Talking about road testing.. someone drove their car into my house yesterday.. luckily no one's hurt, inc the driver- an 18 year old driving a brand new car! Every Tue, it's a student's night in Maidstone, with cheap booze , so he no doubt took advantage of that, but forgot to leave his car at home.

Ben :) x