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Three Paycheck Month

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by The Ben Mills Two

 

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1.
smoke rider 02:13
2.
one lingual 01:37
3.
fact and quote one 00:37
4.
doomsday 03:36
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martyrdom 00:37
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gas station change 01:25
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fact and quote two 00:35
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ethanol fuel 01:23
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grand slam call 01:25
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film critics 02:26
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fact and quote three 00:34
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ruby smuckers 03:31
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godfather of soul 01:33
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fact and quote four 00:42
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vegans 01:08
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punk rockers 02:55
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fact and quote five 00:35
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sign guy 03:27
about
Artist: The Ben Mills Two
Title: Three Paycheck Month
Genre: Spoken Word / Comedy
No Label

Originality in the performing arts is on the edge of extinction. Autotune has homogenized the vocals of our best talent into the voice of a singular robot. The modern Hollywood formula for success is to parody movies of other movies that were first TV shows based on comic books. And comedy fans are still herded into cheesy night clubs with cheesier onomatopoeic names and told recycled dick jokes by insult-hurling-keyboard-tie-wearing jackasses stuck in a twenty-five year time warp. Perhaps this last cruel fact is the most damning of our society. Satire is supposed to halt our culture's wayward drift, not drive it further into the repetitive oblivion.

Luckily for culture, The Ben Mills Two's debut album Three Paycheck Month can now be added to the smart arsenal of the cerebral comedy fan. The soundscaped monologues, derived from the unique experiences of a working class comedian and an academic singer-songwriter, are the comedic equivalent of finding long lost money in your pockets when you're broke.

The Ben Mills Two consists of comedian Ben Mills (originally from Nanaimo, British Columbia) and musician David Newberry (originally from Peterborough, Ontario). They met in 2005 while working as cashiers in a splintery ticket window in the historic town of Barkerville in BC. They worked side by side again in the city of Vancouver as cooks in a Gastown pub. During this time they began collaborating on ideas for an original comedy album as respite from the menial chores of their employment. The ideas came to fruition in 2009 when the two created a makeshift studio in Newberry's living room in a Jervis Street apartment. The live tracks were recorded at a theatre in a Science Museum during daylight hours. The CDs were duplicated in Mills' current home city of Halifax Nova Scotia, stretching the 100% Canadian creative process from coast to coast. It was soft released online in November 2009 and was warmly received among the comedian community. β€œIt breaks ground in the grey area between poetry and stand up, brilliant.” Simon King - professional stand up comic.

Summer 2010 marks the full launch of Three Paycheck Month on independent Canadian radio. The digital copies cost $8 and can be downloaded from this website. Physical copies of the CD are also available to residents of Canada for $12 plus shipping costs. Just e-mail benmills36@gmail.com for details. (Free stickers are also available)

This relevant album guarantees to be the best quasi-hybrid-musical-soundscape-comedy that indie radio will hear in 2010. Three Paycheck Month is to the comedy fan what an actual three paycheck month is to the wage slave; deserving redemption that couldn't come at a better time.

For more Ben Mills check out his website:
benmills.ca
credits
released 06 November 2009
Ben Mills - words and vocals
Dave Newberry - music, sound, and back up vocals


all tracks were recorded inside Newberry's apartment on Jervis street in Vancouver BC during the summer of 2009 with the exception of tracks 2, 5, 15 which were recorded in Science World Vancouver on April 3, 2009


produced by Dave Newberry
mastered by Brent Geikie
cover art by Ben Mills
cover layout by Elizabeth Laing


Special Thanks:

Adam Pateman - for booking and recording Mills' performance at Science World.
Elizabeth Laing - for back up vocals on track 12 and putting up with the noise in her living room.
Dave Niehaus - for his creative contribution to track 10.
Hal Sutherland - for his creative contribution to track 12.
Adam Parker – for his creative contribution to track 13.
Myndi Arsenault - for her creative contribution to track 18.
Sandeep Chauhan - for having Mills on his radio show The Late Shift on 101.7 CHLY Nanaimo
Shane Keller – Keller Internet Marketing.

The Ben Mills Two can be reached at benmills36@gmail.com
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