Ben Walker

candysaysit:

Favourite Flavour — Candy Says (live) (by candysaysit)

This is from our Wilmington Arms show in London last week. It was such a fun room to play. If you weren’t there, just whack this up to full screen 1080p, turn the volume up and pretend you were.

The audio was recorded on Narco’s Zoom H4 held up towards the back of the room and it sounds amazing! I’d happily play the Wilmington Arms again if it sounds that good, and Salvador the sound guy made life very easy for us on stage too.

Shugo Tokumaru “Katachi” (by Kijek / Adamski)

Serious stop motion. Wow.

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I just liked Driven By Their Beating Hearts - fanmade video contest by Cynthia Rumery on Vimeo.

Re-Sync Media - Showreel 2012 (by Cork On The Fork Ltd)

You’ll spot some sneak previews of Little Fish supporting Gaz Coombes and our Barn Session in there… These guys are awesome at making videos.

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A Silent Film – Danny, Dakota, and the Wishing Well (by Daisy2629)

Great video. And a great review!

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Little Fish China Tour 2012 (by JujuNez)

We’ve been making these little video posters recently. It’s quite a good idea, but for some reason we’ve taken it upon ourselves to translate them into languages we don’t understand.

This one’s especially good. I have literally no idea how to pronounce Chinese. I found an app that shows you a rough phonetic version of the characters. Between Google Translate, the phonetic app and my terrible pronunciation, this may be the best game of Chinese whispers ever.

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Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six - Living In The Aftermath (via debtrecords)

Makes me really want a dog. Great song, too.

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A 2.9 mile walk from Headington to Jericho (by ihatemorningsdotcom)

I walked from Headington to Jericho listening to Naked Baby Photos by Ben Folds Five and taking Hipstamatic photos of things along the way. The walk took exactly an hour, which means you’re experiencing the journey 25.7 faster than I did. When I got there I made this video on my phone and found an old demo of my Oxford song to use as the soundtrack.

You can also hear the finished song (thank God I rewrote that second verse…).

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To Burn or Build With (Acoustic session for BBC Oxford Introducing)

springoffensive:

Let’s make this go viral, yeah?

For sure. As if we didn’t have enough to do, when I saw Spring Offensive tweet about an impromptu session at Magdelen Bridge, I hotfooted it down there with Juju. We ended up singing and playing for a beautiful acoustic recording of To Burn or Build With, which they were filming for a BBC session.

The song builds and builds, then right at the end the camera pans around to reveal Juju singing and my nimble fingers working some magic on the piano. Good times all round.

In all seriousness: this song, this session and this band are outstanding. If you don’t know them yet, go and watch the video, then get involved.