Ben Mandelson
Ben Mandelson (born 6 October 1953, in Everton, Liverpool, England)[1] is an English world musician, and also manager and producer.
Punk and new wave years[]
In the mid-1970s, Mandelson was a student at 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 band 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 a.k.a. 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 the debut album Rivermudtwilight.[4]
References[]
- ^ Chase, Helen Magazine
- ^ Davis, Barry (31 December 2014). "Worldly sounds". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Les Triaboliques at AllMusic
- ^ Rivermudtwilight at AllMusic
External links[]
- Information about Ben Mandelson
- "Hijaz (Ben Mandelson) Journal", Ian A. Anderson, Folk Roots No. 213 (Vol. 22 No. 9) March 2001, pp. 44-45, 47, 49.
- Ben Mandelson at AllMusic
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- 1953 births
- English male guitarists
- Alumni of the University of Bolton
- Living people
- Magazine (band) members
- Musicians from Liverpool
- British post-punk musicians
- British world music musicians
- English record producers
- The Mekons members