Bane of My Life - Tales from Rock'N'Roll's ashtray Master Blaster

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Ladies and gentleman, Ben Hannah is a man with his fingers in many pies.

Adding grooves and grit to Leeds Punk rock n rollers, Nosebleed, polishing your turds as the production talent at The Organworks, throwing the renowned DIY shindig the Pie Race festival and doing, something, at Merch Stall

Inexplicably we managed to not mention Pie Race once during this session but I will not see the chance for puns go begging. Hopefully the gaping wound of that omission is salved by instead feauring Ben’s experiences with his arm down a blocked pub toilet.

Here at BoML we’re always a fan of ballsy moves so very much approve of Ben jacking the day job and pursuing his Producing calling. The testimony is starting to build up that he was right to do so as per this glowing testimony from the Bar Stool Preachers following a recording sesh in Blackpool with him

“I want to take a minute to sing the praises of Ben Hannah.

I’d met Ben a few times on the road, and always enjoyed his company. His band Nosebleed absolutely fucks and I always put their name forward to support BSP whenever I could. It was only the last year or so though that I started to take real notice of his production skills. As a relatively untrained musician, a lot of my critiquing of music comes from feel and direction, and practically all of Ben’s production work is lathered in vibe and so often, the aesthetics of the music were spot on (check out Casual Nausea’s latest album for a great example of that). I got lost in a little Ben Hannah rabbit hole for a while, and it’s one I’m glad I did.

I decided to go out on a limb and ask him to come and capture our ‘demos’, knowing full well it might be a bit ambitious to expect everything to come together. But Christ on a bike was it one of the best decisions I ever made. Especially when our other options were huge producers out of huge studios.

Ben is a great producer. Always keen to say yes, but still always keeping an eye on how egged the pudding is. He’s got a fantastic ear and a genuine enthusiasm for his work. Hilarious and creative, he was a fucking delight to be around, even on the 18 hour days we were pulling together. Even though he and I are very different people, this process reaffirmed for me that pure hard work and inspiration can lead to life affirming relationships and incredible output.
Ben, if you’re reading this, thank you so much my mate. I’ve got no idea what’s going to happen with this album yet, but thanks to your ability to translate the bands ideas and songs into audio gold, I’m sure it’s going to go far.

Full of love. 10/10, would bang.
Xxx”

Other notable work (to me anyway) includes “Demons” by Casual Nausea. Most intriguing, he’s been making waves on the Leeds pro wrestling scene by jazzing up the all-important walk on music. There’s absolutely no reason why he wouldn’t be able to tidy up your piece of shit thrashing so pick up that phone.

Another solid Leeds man, Ben’s dad, gets a mention, which is not as uncool as it sounds. I can indeed confirm that he does have a book called Big Ed’s which you can check out here
https://www.tnsrecords.co.uk/shop/paul-hannah-art-big-eds-book/

Nosebleed have been on ice like almost everything else during 2020. At the time of recording they almost had a band practice but i’ll let you have a listen to see how badly that went awry! They will come back blazing no doubt as they were seriously busy before the enforced lay off. The Police bothering vid where they drag around pretend dead bodies made of Motorhead T Shirts should be compulsory viewing and found here
https://youtu.be/q8KaxTy2PbQ

Tunes in order:
Nosebleed - Time and Time Again
Nosebleed - Make Up Your mind
Acid Drop - Mary How We Tried
Nosebleed - Scratching Circles
Nosebleed - Kick Me When I’m Down.

Johnny Holt, drummer of Fair Do’s, here’s the need to know factfile:

Sour beers, wry humour, big veg, tanning banes, doing drawing under false names and the devastating reveal that Danny is not the most important one in the band. Bane of My Life has got the lot.

When i’m thinking Fair Do’s, i’m thinking of extremely broad accents as well as tekky skills. The following hour will subject you to both in no small degree, but come through it and you will be changed.

There are four characters within that outfit, some more vocal than others, although a lack of verbosity, or not, is no indicator of crucial contribution to the rockin’. Something I discovered in the course of this Lancastrian odyssey.

Mr Holt was the weapon of choice in this instance, having demonstrated some keen extra-curricular activities via Instagram over the last year or so. At the time of writing (Feb 21), no band is up to anything particularly fascinating so I needed answers from other avenues of inquiry. Namely his big veg and long line of impressive breads i’m getting hot under the collar about on a daily basis.

As is only right, John’s magnificent moustache has its brief moment in the sun too. His place amongst the greats assured by pulling off a look that most just dare to dream of.

Fair Do’s album, “Leopards” is available now on Lockjaw Records and on the usual streaming platforms
https://lockjawrecords.bandcamp.com/album/leopards

Fair Do’s tunes in order appearance on the show
Candleman
Closing In
One of Life's Great Lessons
Hostile Company
Both to Blame

Bane of My Life Podcast would be a sorry shitshow without the aid and charity of the following:

Mike Irving - web design and general nous. https://www.mike-irving.co.uk/
Producer Will - Rescuing the sound from my butchery https://www.pressuredropstudio.co.uk/
Ian T - Intro music, jingles
Matt Wray - Logo design https://bollingtonprintshop.co.uk/