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Go to the online music store to download my latest album Where Next and my previous albums.

Or go to Amazon.co.uk to order them on CD.

exclusive christmas mini-album - download now

My mini-album of Christmas songs, It's Christmas Whether You Like It Or Not, is now available for download exclusively from my online music store. I've put some previews up on my MySpace page for you to listen to.

bbc four comedy song docs back on iplayer; MBMC repeated

The two documentaries on comedy songs to which I contributed (Comedy Songs: The Pop Years and Time Shift: The Comic Songbook), first shown this time last year, have just been repeated again on BBC Four, and as such are once more available to view via the BBC iPlayer (click on the titles to see each show). 

Meanwhile I've just noticed they're repeating the first series of The Mitch Benn Music Show on BBC7 (nobody ever tells me anything). 

Kirsty in Bass guitar magazine

Click here to download a .jpg of our beloved Kirsty Newton's interview in Bass Guitar Magazine (Chili Peppers, now there's a thought...)

thank you

A big thanks to all who came to see us on our 2009 tour.  It's been a great one and has put me in a good frame of mind for the coming year (see the blog).  

Meanwhile I've updated the gigs page to include all my stand-up gigs from now until the end of the year.

hastings show cancelled

Our show at "Venuu" in Hastings next Wednesday (the 11th) has been cancelled by the venue (or venuu).  This wasn't our decision and suffice to say we're not happy about it, particularly as I'm given to understand we'd already sold a lot of tickets.

To those of you who were planning on coming, I'm very sorry and I hope you can make it to either our London show this Friday or our Canterbury show on Friday 27th.

mitch benn's wondrous stories - now on iplayer

Mitch Benn's Wondrous Stories, the documentary I did for Radio 4 on the subject of prog concept albums, is available to hear here on the BBC iPlayer until next Tuesday (19th).

Watchdog - Ryanair

Here's the third Watchdog vid, complete with guest appearance from Ivan as - well, you'll figure it out.

MITCH BENN & THE DISTRACTIONS - the WHERE NEXT tour 2009

 The tour is now underway - here are the dates. Hope to see you at one or more of them!

SEPTEMBER

25TH NEWBURY New Greenham Arts

OCTOBER

1st DURHAM Gala Theatre

2nd STOCKTON-ON-TEES Arc

4th LINCOLN Drill Hall

6th BANBURY Mill Arts Centre

7th SHEFFIELD Memorial Hall

9th CAMBRIDGE The Junction

10th BRIDPORT Arts Centre

13th ABERYSTWYTH Arts Centre

14th HEREFORD The Courtyard

15th STROUD Subscription Rooms

18th COLCHESTER Arts Centre

21st SALISBURY Arts Centre

22nd FAREHAM Ashcroft Arts Centre

24th BRIDLINGTON Musicport Festival

25th KING'S LYNN Arts Centre

29th HULL Truck Theatre

30th NOTTINGHAM Lakeside Arts Centre

NOVEMBER

3rd LOUGHBOROUGH Town Hall

5th BATH Rondo

6th LONDON Bloomsbury Theatre

7th SPALDING South Holland Centre

11th HASTINGS Venuu

12th SHERBORNE Powell Theatre

19th SWINDON Arts Centre

20th RUNCORN Brindley Arts Centre

21st MANCHESTER Dancehouse

22nd LANCASTER The Dukes

27th CANTERBURY Gulbenkian Theatre

watchdog week 2 - The Yellow Light Of Death

For some reason the BBC have disabled embedding on the "official" YouTube posting of my song, but "Stefan1826MV2" has posted the whole PlayStation 3 item, so here it is (if you just want the song, it starts at 8m15). Quite pleased with the video (and I bet Line 6 are too; their logo gets almost as much screentime as me).