Thank you to the supporters who turned up to see myself and poet Helen Gregory perform our poetry/song set last night at Halo in Bristol. Thank you also to the Acoustic Night team who booked us. It was a great evening and very lovely to see you all. I’m looking forward to hearing the recording

Some of you may have missed the live show last night with BCFM’s Dave Miles. All is not lost! You can listen to it with the following link, at your leisure. I occupy the first half hour-ish with  a bit of chat and three new songs.

http://bcfm.org.uk/wp-content/Podcasts/20111128220001.mp3
Bj

For anyone who’s out there on the web via any of the following sites, it may be useful to know you can also connect with me here:

http://www.myspace.com/benitajohnson

http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/benita-johnson/21/308/251

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=758567891

http://soundcloud.com/benitajohnson/album-medley-mix-you-should

http://www.last.fm/music/Benita+Johnson

http://www.bandwagongigs.com/epk/BENITAJOHNSON

http://twitter.com/#!/benthirteen

Just copy the links, paste them into your browser and go!

I’ve recently been in touch with the gang at The Lansdown Hall (used to be “The Space”) in Stroud, and it turns out they’re having a fundraising event this Saturday 12th Nov. Lansdown Hall is a charity-run venue and multi-fundtional arts space right in the centre of the community, for the community and in order to put on events, host workshops and classes etc at an affordable rate, they need to raise income from fundraising wherever possible. So I’ve lent my services as a volunteer and will be doing some impromptu acoustic sets in the cafe area on Saturday afternoon between 2 – 5pm. If you feel like catching some of my original tunage during daylight hours – perhaps after a wander round the farmers market that shuts up around then – it would be great to see you. There’ll be other activities going on at the venue too, of course. Full details can be found here:

http://lansdownhall.org/home.html

Woosh! Now that Glastonbury and Larmer Tree Festivals are becoming memory I have time to reflect and enjoy them 2nd time round…

It was a real privelage to be part of the show on the Poetry & Words stage at Glasto. My sets went down really well so my thanks to the audiences for playing their part in helping me warm up the stage for the poets each day. Thanks also to the audience, musicians and organisers at the Fluffy Rock (you know who you are!) for graciously allowing me to prance about and muddy your stage too. I had a great time. A very special acknowledgement also goes out to the guy who sold me the hat those live pics just wouldn’t have been the same without it!!

Fond memories of Larmer Tree festival are now lodging themselves in my grey matter too. New friends. Some incredible and inspiring poetry experiences I hadn’t thought possible. Well received performances at The Social and the lyrical Lostwoods stage. Dancing in the rain to the music on the main stage… And the Social audience members each and every one who shook off their friday fatigue and lent their voices to me on request – I salute you. Thank you.

Fantastic! Heading to Glastonbury with the early-birds this weekend and not a cloud in the sky! Not-a-one! Yea verily
Should you know anyone who’s going be sure to let them know to look out for some impromptu sets from me at various caf’s about the place… I’ll also be warming up the stage for the poets at the Poetry&Words stage in Theatre and Circus ffi: http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/areas/theatre-and-circus/poetryandwords
It’s all on the Gigs page anyways…
Oh and come and say hi if you see me
bye for now

The mailbox on this site has now been fixed. Apologies to anyone this has inconvenienced. I will now get your emails without issue.

… and here’s hoping it’s a good one

Thanks for stopping by the site! All quiet on the Gigs front for the moment – I’ll keep you posted…! Please take time to browse the Free Stuff, check out the Store and if you need to Get In Touch please note until you hear otherwise it’s best to use the following email address: benitajohnson76@yahoo.co.uk as site contact seems to be down. I’ll let you know when it’s back online.

That’s all for now. Take care everyone and start as you mean to go on

Anyone heard of JEBO? Well you shoulda. Their Debut and Second albums were produced by ex Island Records’ John Burns and Real World Studios’ Ben Findlay. They are perhaps the most exciting musical thing emerging from Bristol (2nd to myself ) and THEY ARE PLAYING AT THE THUNDERBOLT FOR A MERE £5 TOMORROW NIGHT ……… AND SO AM I!
For info about the venue and directions etc go to: www.thethunderbolt.net
look up JEBO on Facebook and YouTube…
and come down to the Bolt tomorrow drink some nice real beer or whatever you fancy, park yourself on a nice comfy sofa and e.n.j.o.y………. mm