Benjamin Francis Leftwich, National Centre for Early Music, York, October 29
ON Monday, the debut album by York singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich takes its place in the CD racks across the country.
Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm carries rather more of a media vibe than usual for a York musician, trailed by radio support from BBC radio presenters Jo Whiley, Zane Lowe, Greg James and Dermot O’Leary, for whom he recorded a live session on his Saturday afternoon Radio 2 show.
His cover of Arcade Fire’s Rebellion from that session attracted 30,000 downloads, while his Helen Downing-directed promo videos have clocked up 400,000 views on YouTube, and all ten dates on his debut headline tour sold out in February and March. His support spot on Noah & The Whale’s April travels brought him further attention, and festival appearances at Glastonbury last weekend, Camden Crawl, Dot-To-Dot, Bestival, Boardmasters and Green Man will only add to the impetus.
Ask Benjamin – or plain Ben as he used to call himself in earlier gigging days in his home city – how he will feel when he first sees the album in the shops and he leans forward, a little weary eyed, in the City Screen café bar. “Can I be completely honest with you?” he says. “I think stuff like answering questions is kind of funny. I’m usually chilling with friends in my room, just drinking and chilling.
“I’m not trying to make it a magical thing. I’m 21, I’m writing my songs and releasing them. Everything is on a bigger scale now but I’m not looking to change my perspective that I just love playing guitar and writing songs.”
His album press release from Chuff Media introduces him in big bold type as “This Year’s Most Intriguing New Discovery”, and once more Benjamin looks somewhat nonplussed. “Intriguing? I got Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record of the Week [on Radio One] with Pictures and people are picking up on it, but there are loads of other people who are intriguing. Or maybe I’m being humble; I don’t know.”
Reticent might be a better word for it, but the songwriting has a quiet confidence about it, his lyrics as much as his way with an acoustic guitar attracting accolades for his two EPs, last year’s A Million Miles Out and this year’s Pictures.
“I can’t hide from the lyrics being the talking point,” Ben acknowledges. “But I’m so involved, it’s difficult to be one step removed from that.
“The lyrics come in their own way; they might come straightaway or they might come over a few months; there’s no formula to it.
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