Ben Lee - Australian Tour 2005

It’s been a pretty cool year so far and I’m working hard to stand behind this record with all the tenacity I can muster. I’ve put together a sweet 5 piece band led by my long-term collaborator Lara Meyerratken. We’ve been doing a bunch of shows to launch the album over here in the U.S., and we just played Conan Obrien the other night. We’re getting ready to head out on a 6 week co-headline tour of America with Harmar Superstar which should be a nightly party.

But the best thing has been beginning to feel the response of my fans to the new album. It’s an album that I poured my whole heart into, and it seems like people get that. In Australia I was totally overwhelmed by the public reaction to ‘Gamble Everything For Love' and seeing it chart so highly on the hottest 100 was quite a coup. We’re just at the start of this campaign and there are long battles ahead, but I’m determined to get this music to every corner of the world that I can reach.

So in the immortal words of Timothy 'Speed' Levitch, this tour is for “all the soldiers of bliss who, though trapped deep behind enemy lines, strut".

Big Love,

-Ben lee