Sometimes in my day to day job I find myself thinking “wow, never would’ve guessed this would happen to me today!”. One such time was on a run-of-the-mill promo day with Ben Harper and his rockin band Relentless7 (who, by the way, have one of the craziest drummers since The Muppets’ Animal. Check out the drumfill at the beginning of this track!).

Sorry, I digress! So we were filming a rage Guest Programming special, the holy grail for any wannabe DJ. The coveted honour of a rage Guest Programming involves selecting 50 of your favourite music videos from a red bible the size of a telephone book and taking over one of the longest running Australian video shows for an evening – I mean, who wouldn’t give their first born for this opportunity? The artist then records intros to their favourite of these 50 songs. So we were filming this in a hotel suite (as you do, more often than not) with Ben and R7 when one of the band members discovered the fluffy white bathrobes in the wardrobe. All of a sudden I’m ordering another 2 bathrobes up from concierge and things start to look more like a cigar lounge than a film set…

You can see the guys in little else than those robes this weekend on ABC1! Tune in and don’t forget your rubber ducky!
www.abc.net.au/rage/archive/s2630696.htm

Oh, and in case you were wondering what Ben Harper’s Hottest Song of All Time is, it’s Stereophonics Maybe Tomorrow. Here here, Ben.

The lovely folks at Moshcam have put up their footage of the entire Ben Harper & Relentless7 gig at the Metro Theatre in April.

A definite highlight was ‘Fly One Time’. It was great to see the crowd so into a song that they’d never even heard!

Click here to see the whole show.

No, this is not a ‘white lie’. Nor is this a ‘dark time’. This is way more exciting for me!

What we have here is a stream of the entire new Ben Harper & Relentless7 album ‘White Lies For Dark Times’ which is officially out now.

Ben Harper & Relentless7 - White Lies For Dark Times

If you love it as much as I do, you can follow these links to order your copy now through JB Hifi & Itunes.

We have a Sydney city date with Ben Harper and Relentless 7 this Thursday**. Can’t wait to see Ben gain some altitude (he tends to jump… alot).

Unless you’re heading way up north for the Blues & Roots Fest this long weekend, there’s only one other chance to see Ben Harper live on this trip… If you’re a Melbournian on April 12, you can join the rove audience when Ben, Jason, Jordan, and Jesse hop on stage. Submit your deets here on the rove website.

The vid for Shimmer & Shine shows that life on tour with the guys would be serious fun. I bet their van driver has already submitted his demo – that’s how Ben and Relentless 7’s guitarist Jason Mozersky met.

To hear and share Fly One Time and Boots Like These from the upcoming album White Lies For Dark Times, grab the widget.

** Head to Faster Louder to win a ticket for the Syd show