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The Second Hand Marching Band & Benni Hemm Hemm Faults ..... a collaborative album between Iceland and Scotland Benni and Pete met in 2007 at one of the first Second Hand Marching Band performances. Pete, Ross, Rich and Fraser from SHMB started playing in Benni’s band. At the same time Pete and Benni recorded some songs together as a collaboration between the Second Hand Marching Band and Benni Hemm Hemm.
SHMB have played tiny venues like Tchai Ovna tea house, and big venues like the Liquid Rooms and stages at festivals such as The Big Tent Festival, Wickerman and Belladrum. They have toured in Scotland and England, and will be heading to London for the first time this year as a full band.
folk tales (Eliminate Evil, Revive Good Times).
The band first began to take root when Hermannsson, after a limited release of his solo SummerPlate EP in 2003, moved to Italy for a Nine songs have been produced in Edinburgh, few months and began to write a new batch of Glasgow, Fife, Cumbernauld and Reykjavik. A songs. With a full band, including trumpet, bass, long project stretching over seven year, 800 and flügelhorn, Benni Hemm Hemm issued their miles, sixteen instruments and eight singer. SHMB have counted members of Withered Hand, self-titled full-length debut on Iceland's The album is a totally self-funded, DIY, selfBenni Hemm Hemm, Danananaykroyd, John Smákökurnar Records in September 2005, with recorded, self-produced, self-assembled produc- Knox Sex Club, Trembling Bells, Big Hogg and reissues in Japan, Europe, and North America tion. This is no mean feat for a normal band but Eagleowl in their ranks, as well as many dozens coming the following year with the help of P-Vine try it with 17 people in 2 countries! of other bands and music groups. and Morr Music, respectively. In November of 2006 the group's second album, Kajak, recorded They are known for collaborating, having played The Second Hand Marching Band started in in just a few days at Sigur Rós' studio, came out the only accompanied versions of songs from RM 2007 as a big folk ensemble in Glasgow. They in Iceland, and by May 2007 it had hit U.S. Hubbert’s first album in a one-off performance in have released a number of EPs (Dance to Half shores. The band's third studio album, Murta St. 2013, and adding their shambolic ensemble Death, Grit and Determination), compilations Calunga, followed in 2008. In 2011 Benni Hemm sound sound to Zoey Van Goey, Withered Hand (Compendium, And the rest will follow) and an Hemm returned with the album Skot, featuring and Beerjacket. album (A Hurricane, a Thunderstorm) through Hermannsson backed by the Icelandic pop enindependent labels and self-release. All reBenni Hemm Hemm is the project of Benedikt semble Retro Stefson. cordings are self-recorded in sheds, garages, livH Hermannsson from Reykjavik, Iceland. BHH www.thesecondhandmarchingband.co.uk ing rooms and bedrooms, carefully put together has created a number of albums of varied styles, https://twitter.com/shmb over time. from full brass ensemble pop (Kajak) to darker www.facebook.com/secondhandmarchingband
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