Ben Watt /// Label boss, artist, remixer
Son of a Glaswegian jazz pianist-bandleader and a half-Romany gypsy actress. Partnered Tracey Thorn in Everything But The Girl for 20 years. DJs only so as he can have a hotel breakfast in bed the next morning. He loves the beats of vintage John Ciafone and named both Buzzin' Fly and Strange Feeling after Tim Buckley songs. He pretends he never reads but secretly loves Philip Roth and Anne Sexton. He very nearly died in 1992 from a rare auto-immune disease. Serve him a well-mixed gin and tonic whenever possible, preferably in front of an old Werner Herzog film with Klaus Kinski in it. |