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Best known for his sixteen years as songwriter-performer-producer with Tracey Thorn in multi-million-selling alt-pop UK duo Everything But the Girl (1984-2000), London-born Ben Watt is also a prize-nominated non-fiction writer, record label boss and DJ. In 2014, he returned to his earliest folk-jazz roots as a solo singer-songwriter with the award-winning album, Hendra, his first for thirty-one years. The follow-up Fever Dream was released in April 2016. He has also written two memoirs; the first, Patient (1996), was a New York TimesNotable Book of the Year, the most recent, Romany and Tom (2014), was long-listed for the UK’s premier non-fiction award, the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Bernard Butler is an English musician and record producer. He has been noted as one of Britain&#8217;s most original and influential guitarists. In 1989 he forged a songwriting partnership with Brett Anderson forming the group Suede and co-writing and playing guitars on every recording until 1994. From there, Butler continued to play music and produced/played on records for the likes of Aimee Mann, Duffy, Black Kids and the Libertines.

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Ben Watt (Everything But the Girl) Talks with Bernard Butler for the Talkhouse Music Podcast

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