Ben Lurie is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n musician, best known as a member of the Scottish alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band The Jesus and Mary Chain

The Jesus and Mary Chain

The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride, Glasgow in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid...

 from 1989 to 1998.

Biography

Ben Lurie was born in London

London

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 to Australian parents and moved back to Australia when he was 4. He returned to London at the age of 20, where he joined The Jesus and Mary Chain for the Automatic

Automatic (The Jesus and Mary Chain album)

Automatic is the third album by Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. The Mary Chain on this record is basically the core duo of brothers William and Jim Reid, with a drum machine providing percussion, and even a synthesizer filling in on bass guitar. The only other credited...

tour. After the tour, he became a full time member and contributed to the band's last two albums Stoned & Dethroned

Stoned & Dethroned

Stoned & Dethroned is the fifth album by the Scottish alternative band The Jesus and Mary Chain. After spending most of 1992 touring, including a slot on that year's Lollapalooza tour, the band went into the studio during January 1993 with the notion of recording an acoustic album...

 and Munki

Munki

Munki is the final studio album released by The Jesus and Mary Chain. After leaving Blanco y Negro, the Reid brothers signed to Sub Pop in the U.S. and Creation, who had released their debut single "Upside Down" in 1984, in the UK. After hearing the rough mixes to half of the songs on what would...

. After the band split up in 1998, Ben together with Jim Reid

Jim Reid

Jim Reid is the lead singer for the alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, which he formed with his elder brother and guitarist William Reid -The Jesus and Mary Chain:...

 formed the band Freeheat

Freeheat

Freeheat are a British Indie rock band formed by Jim Reid and Ben Lurie of The Jesus and Mary Chain and Romi Mori and Nick Sanderson of The Gun Club....

. Ben also produced records by other bands such as The Parkinsons

The Parkinsons (band)

The Parkinsons were a punk rock band originally from Coimbra, Portugal, formed in the mid-1990s, but later based in London, known for their outrageous live performances.-History:...

 and Tompaulin

Tompaulin

Tompaulin were an indie pop band formed in Blackburn, Lancashire, England in 1999, and named after the Irish poet, critic, and lecturer Tom Paulin....

. He moved back to Australia in 2004, where he currently works as a graphic designer

Graphic designer

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.