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Please Note: To book seated DINNER & SHOW tickets please call the venue on (02) 9544 3844 - All tickets sold through this site are General Admission. GA tickets are allocated for standing room only. A general admission ticket does not guarantee seating. All Shows Are 18+“I firmly believe Ben Salter to be one of Australia’s best singers, and if I weren’t so goddamn competitive, one of its best songwriters as well.” – Tim Rogers Ben Salter is one of Australia’s most highly regarded performers and songwriters. As well as being a founding member of Giants of Science, The Gin Club and the three-time ARIA-nominated Wilson Pickers, he is also an accomplished solo artist, releasing 3 highly acclaimed LPs The Cat (2011), The Stars My Destination (2015) and Back Yourself (2017).As a solo artist, Ben Salter delivers eclectic, esoteric arrangements and sounds that take in elements of rock, pop, jazz, folk, country and beyond, whilst all maintaining a coherence and inimitable melodic style. Ben Salter has performed relentlessly across Australia and the world, both solo and with his band, and his captivating live performances have become quasi-legendary. To date he has collaborated, written and performed with artists as diverse as Mick Thomas (Weddings, Parties, Anything), Tim Rogers (You Am I, The Temperance Union), Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger), Gareth Liddiard (The Drones) and Marlon Williams, to name a few. He has toured with acts such as Cat Power, J Mascis, Gareth Liddiard, Counting Crows, Marlon Williams and most recently Built To Spill.
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Ben Salter Biography
Ben Salter is one of Australia’s most highly regarded performers and songwriters. He makes eclectic, esoteric music that defies easy classification, drawing on elements of indie rock, folk, jazz, electronica, country and beyond whilst maintaining a coherent and inimitable melodic style that coalesces around Salter's powerful and emotive voice.
Salter has written and/or collaborated with artists including Marlon Williams, Vika & Linda Bull, Gareth Liddiard (The Drones/TFS), Emily Wurramara, Robert Scott (The Clean, The Bats), Mike Watt (The Minutemen, Porno For Pyros, The Stooges), Tim Rogers (You Am I), Liz Stringer, Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger), Julien Wilson, Mick Thomas (Weddings, Parties, Anything), and Dan Kelly. In June 2021 legendary Australian performers Vika & Linda Bull released Salter’s ‘My Heart Is In The Wrong Place’, as one of two singles from their sophomore album “The Wait”. It was written by Salter specifically for the duo.
Over the past two decades Salter has toured extensively throughout Australia and across the world, performing at venues ranging from the Australian High Commission in London, to outback pubs, Icelandic community halls, Japanese garages, Honolulu dive bars, Breton sheep farms, Swiss lounge rooms, and many more besides. Salter has supported a number of international touring acts including Built To Spill, The Counting Crows, Cat Power, J Mascis & The Violent Femmes. He has performed at festivals across Australia and the world including Dark Mofo, Queenscliff MF, Brunswick MF, Port Fairy, Queensland Music Festival, Binic and The Great Escape.
For the past two years Salter has been semi-permanently installed at Museum of Old & New Art in nipaluna/Hobart, writing, recording, collaborating and performing in his own studio within the museum, entitled Ben Salter Import Export. He has just concluded his second stint, which saw him spend 161 days over 9 months in total in the space, and record over 150 songs. He has thus far released eight albums worth of material recorded at the studio including last year's twenty-one words for happiness and recent releases Mayday and pierres. These are in addition to the thirty + albums Salter has already released both as a solo artist and with his various projects including The Gin Club, Giants of Science, The Wilson Pickers, The Young Liberals and Hownowmer.
The lyrics to Salter’s songs “West End Girls” & “You Me & The Sea” make up part of a permanent installation in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley Mall along with songs by The Saints, Railroad Gin and The Go-Betweens.
Read MoreSalter has written and/or collaborated with artists including Marlon Williams, Vika & Linda Bull, Gareth Liddiard (The Drones/TFS), Emily Wurramara, Robert Scott (The Clean, The Bats), Mike Watt (The Minutemen, Porno For Pyros, The Stooges), Tim Rogers (You Am I), Liz Stringer, Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger), Julien Wilson, Mick Thomas (Weddings, Parties, Anything), and Dan Kelly. In June 2021 legendary Australian performers Vika & Linda Bull released Salter’s ‘My Heart Is In The Wrong Place’, as one of two singles from their sophomore album “The Wait”. It was written by Salter specifically for the duo.
Over the past two decades Salter has toured extensively throughout Australia and across the world, performing at venues ranging from the Australian High Commission in London, to outback pubs, Icelandic community halls, Japanese garages, Honolulu dive bars, Breton sheep farms, Swiss lounge rooms, and many more besides. Salter has supported a number of international touring acts including Built To Spill, The Counting Crows, Cat Power, J Mascis & The Violent Femmes. He has performed at festivals across Australia and the world including Dark Mofo, Queenscliff MF, Brunswick MF, Port Fairy, Queensland Music Festival, Binic and The Great Escape.
For the past two years Salter has been semi-permanently installed at Museum of Old & New Art in nipaluna/Hobart, writing, recording, collaborating and performing in his own studio within the museum, entitled Ben Salter Import Export. He has just concluded his second stint, which saw him spend 161 days over 9 months in total in the space, and record over 150 songs. He has thus far released eight albums worth of material recorded at the studio including last year's twenty-one words for happiness and recent releases Mayday and pierres. These are in addition to the thirty + albums Salter has already released both as a solo artist and with his various projects including The Gin Club, Giants of Science, The Wilson Pickers, The Young Liberals and Hownowmer.
The lyrics to Salter’s songs “West End Girls” & “You Me & The Sea” make up part of a permanent installation in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley Mall along with songs by The Saints, Railroad Gin and The Go-Betweens.
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