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  • Culture Café #5 // Frank Benbini // Musician-Uncle Frank / FLC

    Culture Café #5 // Frank Benbini // Musician-Uncle Frank / FLC

    Frank Benbini is the drummer with Fun Lovin’ Criminals and he’s also the man behind Radio Riddler and Uncle Frank.

    Uncle Frank also consists of multi instrumentalist Naim Cortazzi, and they’ve just released their album ‘Smiles for Miles’ on MITA Records.

    This isn’t the first time I’ve spoken to Frank, I interviewed him in September 2012 when FLC were playing Arthur’s Day in Dublin.

    Uncle_Frank_Irrestistible_Me_Culture_CafeYou can listen to the interview here or via the video below. I really like Frank, there’s something about him that makes you at ease with me immediately. He might be in the Criminals and pretends to be the hard man, truth is, he’s a big huggy teddy bear! At the start of the podcast, I mention that Frank had ‘promised’ that the next time we met he would greet me, laid out covered in rose petals.. Here’s why >> It’s the cover to his Irresistible Me E.P.

    The interview was recorded before an album showcase in (the legendary) Dean Street Studios in London. We also get ‘I said to Owen Wilson‘story from Frank and Frank also gives us an insight into life with his kid brother, Darryl’s music asBoy Kid Cloud.

    Thanks to all the Dean Street Studios gang, Scream Promotions, especially Holly, and MITA Records for making me feel so at home, mucho love x

    If you are of a sensitive disposition, there are some naughty words in there, your Granny mightn’t like it.

    You can find out more about Uncle Frank on their snazzy website.

    Feature photo from Uncle Frank’s Soundcloud

  • Tune(s) of the Week 21/04/2012 – Huey Morgan and The New Yorkers

    Tune(s) of the Week 21/04/2012 – Huey Morgan and The New Yorkers

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    We all know Huey Morgan, slick front man of Fun Lovin’ Criminals, BBC Radio 2 & 6 DJ, TV Dog trainer extraordinaire.. He’s left FLC behind for an album with ‘Huey Morgan and The New Yorkers’. He’s still backed up a group of friends, including FLC drummer Frank Benbini. So what’s different?

    This is a AA release starts with ‘The Way it Was Before’. Huey’s raspy vocals are quite Tom Waits like, there’s no shortage of F bombs in this mid tempo track which is driven by a nice rhythm section and bass line. The track is a look at society and how things have changed, always interesting to see people’s points of view.

    The second track is ‘Fall on Me’, something completely not what I thought I’d hear Huey Morgan would make. It’s a definite country track, complete with slide guitar and laid-back backing vocals. This is the kind of stuff, you’d expect to hear in some weird bar or truck stop in middle America. Lyrically though, this tells the story of a man away from home and getting a letter from his loved one. Maybe a hark back to Huey’s marine days and a saved gem from then?

    This is a definite departure and shows a different side to Huey. Having listened to his BBC Radio shows and the kind of artists he plays, it’s not beyond the stretch of the imagination to see where his ‘solo’ influences come from.

    Both tracks are taken from Huey Morgan and The New Yorkers’ album ‘Say it to my Face’ and while there are points in the two tracks where you can point to, perhaps, FLC similarities, it definitely isn’t FLC. Enough here to entice me to check out the album.