Singer / Songwriter from Worthing, West Sussex in the UK.

Eyes and Ears are a live music promotions and production team based in Brighton.

https://facebook.com/HazelWoodlandMusic
https://lazerflan.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/Hazel_Woodland

About Me:

I write skeletons - ideas - parts - sparks - where I was once dismayed that I couldn't resolve a song, I've come to embrace my imperfections and just put it out there in the hopes that my messy, skeletons will be fleshed out... maybe with someone else collaboratively, or by myself when inspiration eventually strikes again.

I love to listen to and create music, and as a self-taught guitarist, I have been writing songs since childhood.

Over the years I have performed for hundreds of people both as a solo act and with bands. As an acoustic solo act, I have supported bands such as Enter Shikari and Sandweaver.

In April 2014, my spine was shattered and both wrists broken when I fell backwards 30ft trying to escape my home after a neighbour set off a gas explosion. Luckily I was not paralyzed, but I was given an emergency spinal fusion and had a titanium plate inserted into the radius on my left wrist, reducing my rotation and ability to play guitar.

In July 2015, I had a second wrist operation to remove some of the scar tissue and an osteophyte on my ulna. I'm working hard at physio and hope to continue writing and playing music. I will try to draw inspiration from my experiences just as I have always done.

Influences:

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Rocky Votolato, Missy Higgins, Sara Bareilles, Tegan and Sara, City And Colour (Dallas Green), Sia, Corinne Bailey Rae, Lucy Rose, The Distillers, Brody Dalle, Joan Jett, Heart, Eddi Reader, etc etc...

Other Projects:

Red Tention -www.reverbnation.com/redtention 
(Garage, Disco, Rock) 
Guitarist / Composer / Lyricist / Backing Vocalist.

This Hostility -
www.reverbnation.com/thishostility1 
(Emo, Rock, Punk, Pop) 
Lead Vocalist / Composer / Lyricist

*NEXT GIG: Fri 23rd Jan 7.45pm at FARNHAM POTTERY, Surrey GU10 4SL (solo)*
BENITA JOHNSON is an unsigned singer-songwriter. She has supported the likes of Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers), Boo Hewerdine and Patrick Duff (Strangelove). 
 
Benita’s charity release "Feel Your way" raising funds for Alzheimer's Society & Parkinson's UK is available for download on Bandcamp.

Here are some of the things that other people have said about her music :

“I know we have a lot of home-grown female singers who are very underrated but Benita is quite simply the possessor of one of the best voices to come out of the U.K. in many a year. . it’s not folk and it’s not rock or pop, it’s Benita Johnson doing her thing and it’s beautiful. . . simply breathtaking. . .”

Malcolm Carter, Penny Black Music Reviews


“Grandiose, poetic and almost spiritual”

Alfie Kingston, Sound Music Reviews


“Her song-writing is top-quality stuff, and it’s music that you just gotta hear for yourself. . . I’d be surprised if you’re not convinced you’re in the presence of an unsung genius”.

David Kidman, Netrhythms Reviews


“Gorgeous voice, wonderful melodies; folk with a soulful, sassy heart”

Subba-Cultcha.com

"A cross between Amanda Marshall and Melissa Etheridge" 
Anon, Fan

Surrealist comedy folk ditties on a tiny guitar, touching on subjects such as his suicidal cat, ill-fated hipster romance, and the troubles of being a vegetarian in a zombie apocalypse. 

Influences include Kimya Dawson, Adam Green, Jeffrey Lewis and Beans on Toast.

thelogicalhairs is following