Shows

Local Mondays - Declan Bennett plus guests, Localism DJs Mon 3rd November 2008 Big Chill House, Pentonville Road, King's Cross

Local Mondays continue at The Big Chill House - and they're FREE! 

Opening for Boy George on his UK tour just ain't enough for Declan. No, the star lead of the hit musical Rent is coming to the Big Chill House for a Local night, with some real class.

Declan Bennett is a hard-hitting, dynamic acoustic singer-songwriter from England whose unashamed and honest tales of love and sexuality and emotionally charged lyrics have won him a diverse and devoted fan base around the UK and beyond...

No stranger to fame (with mainstream chart success by the age of 20 as part of a pop/rock outfit, a lead role in an award-winning West End show at 21, not to mention a seven month tour of America starring as Roger in rock opera RENT), Declan released his second full-length album “An Innocent Evening Of Drinking” in April 08. Declan recently starred on Broadway for 7 months as Roger in the original award-winning production of Rent and is now performing his own gigs across the US and UK promoting his new record.

From the moment Declan began introducing his solo repertoire at unplugged nights around London a few years ago under the pseudonym sumladfromcov, he began to get repeated requests for recorded material from a rapidly expanding fan base.

Having already experienced the frustration that writing for a major label could entail, he decided to go it alone, and, in 2005, brought out his debut album, The Painters Ball, on his own label Covboy Records, distributed by Proper, available from record shops throughout the UK and worldwide from online stores like www.amazon.co.uk and iTunes.

Over the past few years has been playing numerous respected acoustic venues and festivals around the UK (as well as turning up in a few unexpected places too, including a live set for the cool festival club favourite Silent Disco) and all over America.

He has supported at sell-out gigs for artists as diverse as Boy George, Seth Lakeman and Nizlopi, and has headlined his own packed gigs in places like London's Soho Revue Bar which have drawn fans from as far away as Switzerland, Germany and Norway.

Having released a limited-edition EP The Kitchen in early 2006 (recorded unplugged in his London kitchen and available through his website www.declanbennett.co.uk), and in 2007, a further EP ’10 Nelson Road’ (available under his own name from iTunes) he continues to gig on both sides of the Atlantic, spreading his infectious style of Jagged Pop Poetry