Ben Stewart is experimenting on you. He’s probing you to find the alien in your head. Ah, it may be cunningly disguised as human, it may even THINK it’s human. But the way it sometimes bursts with fits of despair, passion, happiness or fury; the way it shrinks away like a frail shy bird; it’s definitely an alien. Using puzzling words and colourful melodies, Ben’s music is sometimes beautiful, sometimes violent, sometimes furious, sometimes fragile and sometimes darkly funny. He draws influence not only from other music (David Bowie, Radiohead, the Dresden Dolls, Nirvana and Bob Dylan), but also books (Hugo, Rushdie, Marquez and Ginsberg), musicals, theatre, cinema, newspapers and the faces of the alien-filled people walking the streets. Ben searches for the grey areas of life, between personal artistic vision and popular sensibility, looking for ways to describe the alien in himself and in all of us
