Ben & Jason were a singer-songwriter duo from London

London

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 consisting of Ben Parker and Jason Hazeley. Formed in 1998 and pre-empting the so-called New Acoustic Movement by about a year, they released three albums on Go! Beat

Go! Beat Records

Go! Beat Records was a record label launched as a subsidiary of Go! Discs Records for dance artists like David Holmes and Portishead. When Go! Discs folded, Go Beat continued as a label within the Universal Music Group....

/Universal

Universal Records

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: Hello, Emoticons and Ten Songs About You. When they were dropped from their major label deal, the band released their final album, Goodbye

Goodbye (Ben & Jason album)

Goodbye is the fourth and final album by British singer-songwriter duo Ben & Jason. It was released on October 13, 2003 on the independent label Setanta.-Track listing:#"Mr...

, on the independent label Setanta

Setanta Records

Setanta Records is a UK Independent record label. The label was at the forefront of the indie Irish music scene in the late eighties and nineties as itchampioned young Irish groups.-History:...

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As songwriters-for-hire, they collaborated with Mundy

Mundy

Mundy is an Irish singer-songwriter. 'Mundy' is a nickname given to Enright, as it not only refers to his name Edmund, but it is how he pronounces the word "Monday".-Biography:...

 and Martine McCutcheon

Martine McCutcheon

Martine McCutcheon is an English singer, television personality and Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress. McCutcheon had minor success as one third of the pop group Milan in the early 1990s; however, it was her role as Tiffany Mitchell in BBC's EastEnders that made her a household name in the UK...

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Their biggest hit was Air Guitar, which reached #76 in the UK charts. Far better known is their collaboration with Kinobe

Kinobe

Kinobe are an electronic duo, hailing from west London. Comprising Julius Waters and Dave Pemberton, they have been categorized as "techno-house funk"...

, Slip Into Something... (from the album Soundphiles).

The pair went their separate ways in December 2003 after disappointing results but excellent reviews from the penultimate album "Ten Songs About You", and in particular the seminal masterpiece of a single "The Wild Things".

Ben Parker went on to form the band Lux Luther with bass player Ollie Russian, drummer Ben Carpenter (now of the Creepy Morons) and guitarist Gavin Slater (now of Ghosts

Ghosts (band)

Ghosts are a British indie/pop band from London, and were ninth on the BBC's Sound Of 2007 poll. Before signing with Atlantic Records in November 2006 they were previously known as Polanski...

) in 2004. After varying success on the London gig circuit the band split in May 2006 when Parker decided to go solo. Ben appeared on the 2004 CD Scissors In My Pocket by Polly Paulusma

Polly Paulusma

Polly Paulusma is an English singer-songwriter. Her first album, Scissors in my Pocket, was largely recorded and produced by herself at her home...

 in 2004, toured the UK with David Berkeley

David Berkeley

David Berkeley, born David Berkeley Friedland on 22 September 1976 in New Jersey, is an American singer and songwriter.He has released four studio albums, one live album and has published a book, all of them self-produced under the Straw Man label, in a recording career that begun in 2002.Berkeley...

 in 2007 and has also collaborated with Sophie Solomon

Sophie Solomon

Sophie Solomon is a British violinist, songwriter and composer who fuses many different musical influences into her music. In January 2012 she will take up the Directorship of the Jewish Music Institute, SOAS.-Early life:...

 on her second solo studio album. More recently Ben has composed the music for BBC3 sitcom How Not To Live Your Life

How Not to Live Your Life

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 and worked on the John Lennon

John Lennon

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 biopic Nowhere Boy

Nowhere Boy

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 as music tutor, arranger & producer. He now has a new band, Braxton Hix, formed in 2009 with singer Kate Aumonier

Kate Aumonier

Kate Aumonier is a London based singer-songwriter born in Sussex, England. Her debut album was released in 2004 entitled 'Here I am'.-Biography:...

 and produces and writes for new artists such as Pearl & The Puppets and Dutch singer Waylon.

Jason Hazeley now writes comedy, and is one of the authors of The Framley Examiner

The Framley Examiner

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, Bollocks To Alton Towers

Bollocks to Alton Towers

Bollocks to Alton Towers: Uncommonly British Days Out is a humorous travel book written by Robin Halstead, Jason Hazeley, Alex Morris and Joel Morris , which showcases unusual attractions, left-field museums and one-off days out in the United Kingdom.The introduction describes the book as "a...

, Far From The Sodding Crowd and Viz

Viz (comic)

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Singles

• Emoticons (1999)
• Air Guitar (1999)
• Romeo And Juliet Are Drowning (2000)
• The Wild Things (2001)
• How The Hell Do I Explain? (2001)

Albums

• Hello (1999)
• Emoticons (2000)
• Ten Songs About You (2001)
• Goodbye
  Goodbye (Ben & Jason album)
  Goodbye is the fourth and final album by British singer-songwriter duo Ben & Jason. It was released on October 13, 2003 on the independent label Setanta.-Track listing:#"Mr...
  
  (2003)

Collaborations

• Slip Into Something... (Kinobe featuring Ben & Jason, from the album Soundphiles, 2000)
• Unfair Weather (Kinobe featuring Ben & Jason, from the album VerseBridgeChorus, 2001)