Ben Marwood
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Ben Marwood is an English singer-songwriter from the English town of Reading.
Musical career
As part of the contemporary London folk scene, Marwood has performed alongside Frank Turner, Chris T-T and Emily Barker amongst others.
Ben is a good friend of Xtra Mile Recordings artist Frank Turner and was part of Turner's extended backing band at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, and appeared in the video for Turner's single Long Live the Queen.
Playing solo shows from 2002, in 2008 he released his debut mini-album, This Is Not What You Had Planned to some critical acclaim, followed by a three-way split album entitled Exclamation at Asterisk Hash which also featured friends Oxygen Thief and Jim Lockey. Both were released on Broken Tail Records, a small indie label run by Marwood. The debut album Outside There's A Curse was released on London-based Xtra Mile Recordings on 31 January 2011 to further critical acclaim, with Kerrang! awarding it a score of four out of a possible five Ks and Rocksound awarding an eight out of ten. The album release was supported by two national headline tours alongside Oxygen Thief, and a support slot with Frank Turner in May 2011. All undistributed copies of the album were subsequently destroyed in the arson attack on the Sony DADC warehouse during the 2011 England Riots in August 2011.
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Ben Marwood
ALBUMS
- Back Down released: 2013
- Outside There's A Curse released: 2011
- This Is Not What You Had Planned released: 2008
Back Down
Released 2013- For the Skin and the Bone
- These Are the Days When You Can’t Go Home
- The Soundtrack to the Trailer for Your Miserable Christmas Special
- Under Lock & Key
- This Industry Eats Its Young
- I Promise You That It Will Be Okay
- An Escape From Yeehaw Junction
- We Are No Longer Twenty-Five
- Demons
- Don’t Call It a Comeback
- Murder She Wrote
- Lake Wales
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by Ben Marwood
Outside There's a Curse
by: Ben MarwoodIn the distance there's the changing of the night
Wrapped in blanket cloud to tear your wrongs from rights
This is life traversed more than day by day and you don't have to be a looker just to see you've lost your way
What do you say?
In the morning he will realise what we've done
She'll pack her things and never tell of how we won
It's a change of heart, but this change of heart isn't shared by everyone, but this change of heart won't help you if you run
My darling go to sleep for me
And yes I saw it coming but it still came as a shock when your words made me a liar
I spent the evening locked in books trying to find the route you took out of this mire
This is love in versed and played inside out and yeah you may well be the flautist, but there's still no need to flout this all about
It came as no surprise to me she had to go
Her path at sunrise dusted through with April snow
It's a change of heart, but this change of heart isn't shared by all you know
And this change of heart won't help you lift the low
Go to sleep for me
Ladadada
And it came to this and broken ribs in Rotterdam I'm trying to feel the weight and feel my way, but not at all
Now I'm waltzing through this angry phase of tired eyes and sickly sweet malaise, to turn a phrase and throw the fight
In the distance there's the changing of the night
Wrapped in blanket cloud to tear your wrongs from rights
It's a change of heart, but this change of heart's going to vanish come the light
And this change of heart won't help you, but I might.
But I might