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BenBen + Lily

BenBen + Lily Desmond + Mock Deer

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BenBen + Lily is a wildly symbiotic bond between two New York based songwriters who regard each other as musical siblings and partners in magic. They look forward to their second UK tour in July 2024 in support of their newly released EP 'White Elephant,' which has been streamed over 30,000 times in less than a month.

Lily Desmond is a violin sorceress whose writing can be dark and primeval, but always laden with gorgeous, ornate vocals. Her violin playing appears on the soundtrack for the new A24 film I Saw the TV Glow starring Brigette Lundy-Paine. BenBen is an animation director, as well as a storied singer, songwriter and studio producer. He has worked in the studio with artists as illustrious as the Indigo Girls, Brandi Carlile, folk goddess Samantha Crain and Dungen's psychedelic mastermind Gustav Ejstes. An exotic leaf blowing on a weird autumn wind, Ben's high-tenor voice sounds like an uncanny hybrid of Thom Yorke, Elliot Smith and... Michael Jackson. Together, BenBen + Lily make music that is infectiously melodic and intimately magical.

“Ben Wigler has been all over the indie rock landscape... craft[ing] deluxe, swirling indie odes that mine Beatles-y textures, songs dense with instrumentation and unconventional percussion.” - Stereogum

"BenBen crafts music for sensitive souls seeking an otherworldly indie rock wonderland to get lost in, and don’t we all need that sometimes?" - Third Eye Psych Rock

Socials: @benbensings // @lilygoddamndesmond

Line Up

BenBen
Lily Desmond

Mock Deer (Ricky Damiani) is a singer and songwriter based in London. A self-taught musician with a unique playing and writing style, he has spent the majority of his life in the North of England and has re-immersed himself in the capital’s Alt-folk scene over recent years, playing shows for many of the best local promoters as well as touring both in the UK and in Europe. As well as writing original music for theatre and television he has released two EPs, 'Cold and Bright' and more recently 'How We Used to Live' released in July 2015. His renewed involvement in the live music scene has seen him play shows supporting great acts such as The Burning Hell (Can), The Migrant (DK), Sam Brookes (UK) and Kristin McClement (UK) as well as appearing at several UK festivals, including Festival N6, Wilderness Festival, Ramsbottom Festival, The End & Uncivilization Festival He is currently recording an album with producer Scott Fitzgerald and collaborating with many friends he's met on the way, The Album promises to be something special and will hopefully be finished by the end of the year. Between the recording schedule he'll be playing shows and festivals in the Uk/Europe throughout the year