Ben Mandelson

Mandelson in 2013

Ben Mandelson (born 6 October 1953, Everton, Liverpool, England)[1] is an English world musician, and also manager and producer.

Punk and New Wave years

In mid-1970s he was a student in Bolton Institute of Technology (now Bolton University), where he met Howard Devoto, future Buzzcocks and Magazine frontman. When punk emerged, he formed a band called Amazorblades, being the group's guitarist.

In 1981, he joined Howard Devoto's Magazine, replacing Robin Simon (who previously replaced a solid member of that band, John McGeoch) and playing on their last album Magic, Murder And The Weather.

World Music Years

In 1982, as "Hijaz Mustapha" he started playing with Lu Edmonds aka Uncle Patrel Mustapha Bin Mustapha, which led to the formation of 3 Mustaphas 3, a band that was active throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s.

He was founding director, in 1994, of the world music fair WOMEX.[2]

In 2009, together with Justin Adams and, again, Lu Edmonds, Mandelson formed the band Les Triaboliques[3] and released their debut album Rivermudtwilight.[4]

References

  1. ^ Chase, Helen Magazine
  2. ^ Davis, Barry (31 December 2014). "Worldly sounds". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  3. ^ Les Triaboliques at AllMusic
  4. ^ Rivermudtwilight at AllMusic

External links


This page was last updated at 2019-11-08 08:19 UTC. Update now. View original page.

All our content comes from Wikipedia and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.


Top

If mathematical, chemical, physical and other formulas are not displayed correctly on this page, please useFirefox or Safari