Gentle Ben & His Shimmering Hands Brut Album Premières - Brisbane

Like the one-night stand you hoped to never see again, Gentle Ben & His Shimmering Hands are back to ruin your life, break your heart and make your loins quiver.

Gentle Ben can't stay still, shaking his head and arms with shimmering hands that draw numerous arabesques. Charismatic as hell, he takes all the stage presence, leaving the other musicians well sheltered in their expert concentration …

 After leaving France in a smouldering, postcoital ruin, Gentle Ben turn their sights to the east coast of Australia to unleash their new album, ‘Brut’.

Gentle Ben returns to business with an album that joins the very select club of absolute masterpieces ... The melody, the orchestration, the voice… It’s breath-taking... haunted and elegant at the same time … lyrically packing a punch the record is littered with Regret, Bitterness, Tragedy, Redemption.

The Brisbane haute couture swamp rockers played at a former tobacco factory under a big-top, in a 14th century pub, in front of 10,000 fanatical French fans at Binic and will be hitting the road in September to sojourn Naarm, Taungurung Country, Gadigal and Meanjin. 

Supported by Refedex and Anna & The Morphics.

Refedex

Refedex; tough and sad sounding rocknrolling postpunk, probably. will likely include songs about commitment, domestic terrorism, community sport, and alcoholism. not very fun, but rather loud.

Anna & The Morphics

Anna & the Morphics are a new gender-diverse Femme-Punk pro-LGBTQIA+ band and all share influences of punk, post-punk, new-wave, no-wave , dark-wave, Goth, alt-pop & Riot Grrrl plus. We believe performing live is a platform for voicing oneself however and in whatever fashion, and having fun. We are an inclusive, supportive group of diverse humans. Girls to front. Trans & queer rights now, free Palestine & Always was and always will be aboriginal land.