Review Fix Exclusive: Tony Benn Talks Goals for 2021 And More

March 5, 2021 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with singer/songwriter Tony Benn, who discusses his origin in music, creative process, goals and more.

Review Fix: How did the project start?

Tony Benn: I have been playing most of these songs live for years and I really wanted to record them, so I went to the Animal Farm Studio in London to get them done. Now with all that’s going on in the world it seemed like the a fitting time to release the single “If we make it through the Winter”.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like? 

Benn: A joy and a torture. I’m very lucky because I love it and coming up with the initial idea for a tune is usually fun and relatively easy, the downside of this is that finishing a song is much harder than starting a new one so it takes me an age.

Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?

Benn: I hope they are all standout but the one I’m really loving at the moment is “If I cross your mind”. I think it is the song of mine that sounds the least like anything else, but the most like myself live it’s thoughtful (at least I think it is) it’s odd and vaguely traditional, I wrote it on a Summer day in my kitchen (I write nearly exclusively in kitchens) and I was just feeling great, I was happy with my life thinking about the past fondly but with no desire to go back to it.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?

Benn: Years ago my brother got me into writing a list at the start of each year with your goals for every year you are alive so 20 goals if you are 20, 40 if you are 40…that kind of thing. Usually I’m not the best at it but this year I’m flying through it and my list has everything from ambitious baking and devising the perfect set list to tour plans, but my main goal is to be as content and successful as I can be, without one endangering the other. 

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Benn: I would like them to enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoy playing it.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Benn: Well short term (the next 10minutes) I’m going to make dinner for my wife, mother and sister. Long term I plan to release two more singles before, finish writing songs for my next album and do a small tour or if I can’t go on tour at least to have booked one for next year.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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