“When I Fell Over In The City / The Carpeteer” is the double A-side single taken from Benjamin Shaw’s “I Got The Pox, The Pox Is What I Got” EP.
Benjamin is giving away the first A side ‘When I Fell Over In The City’ download it below. He says: “We’re milking his only pop song before we alienate everyone who’s still listening” with…“There’s Always Hope, There’s Always Cabernet” – the debut album out November 21st.
FREE MP3: BENJAMIN SHAW – When I Fell Over In The City
He says:
Now, as you may know, Blackpool is a town built on disappointment and despair. Growing up on these windy shores, Benjamin Shaw had an awful lot of time on his hands.
After a period of particular awfulness, and a deep descent, Ben fell for a whimsical fair lady on the other side of the planet, and promptly moved his life over to Melbourne, Australia. After a year in Melbourne, playing gaggles of shows Ben returned to England with a wife and an array of new songs and recordings. Now living in the woods of North London, Ben has recently been playing all the main dives you’ve never heard of.
Shaw is a “missed grunge by a couple of years” superstar if ever there was one. Okkervil Rivers, Jeffrey Lewises and Sparklehorses have become the diet, and with all the agility you would expect from a gangly, pale washing line of a man, Benjamin Shaw is coming at you.
His “I Got The Pox, The Pox Is What I Got” was released in the colder months of 2009. It was six and a half songs of nausea, noise and hilarious anecdote…then things got serious.
AUGUST//
20 // LONDON, Ant-i Folk Summer Festival @ 12 Bar
24 // EDINBURGH, Electric Circus (supporting Neil Pennycook (Meursault/Cold Seeds) and John Edgell)
29 // LONDON, Half Moon
