Declan Bennett Declan Bennett (aka sumladfromcov) is a 25-year-old, hard-hitting, dynamic acoustic singer-songwriter whose unashamed and honest tales of love and sexuality and emotionally charged lyrics have won him a diverse and devoted fan base around the UK and beyond... No stranger to fame (with mainstream chart success by the age of 20 as part of a pop/rock outfit, and a lead role in an award-winning West End show), Declan is now taking his own, personal, at times dark and intimate songs to all corners of the country. From the moment he began introducing his solo repertoire at unplugged nights around London a few years ago under the pseudonym sumladfromcov, he began to get repeated requests for recorded material from a rapidly expanding fan base. Having already experienced the frustration that writing for a major label could entail, he decided to go it alone, and, in 2005, brought out his debut album, The Painters Ball, on his own label Covboy Records, distributed by Proper, available from record shops throughout the UK and worldwide from online stores like www.amazon.co.uk Over the past year he has been playing numerous respected acoustic venues and festivals around the UK (as well as turning up in a few unexpected places too, including a live set for the cool festival club favourite Silent Disco at Wychwood Festival). He has supported at sell-out gigs for the likes of Boy George at Ronnie Scotts London, Seth Lakeman in Exeter and Nizlopi in Worcester, and headlined his own packed gigs in places like London's Too2Much, which have drawn fans from as far away as Switzerland, Germany and Norway. Having released a limited-edition EP The Kitchen in early 2006 (recorded unplugged in his London kitchen and available through his website www.declanbennett.co.uk), he is now working on his second album, due for release early in 2007. Website: www.declanbennett.co.uk Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/declanbennett <<< back