ben richardson
Ben Richardson is the bass player in Sunderland based indie rock band 'Plastic Glass'. The band started playing locally in 2018 and have since gained a huge following in the area. With the support of radio stations and venues they have been able to gig across the UK. Ben is also a promoter who co-founded 'Unison music and Events' in 2019 with friend, and fellow musician, Elliot Scott. 'Unison' works closely with Sunderland venue 'Independent' to support the local music scene.
I’m the bass player in Sunderland indie rock band Plastic Glass. We’ve been part of the North East music scene for around two years now. It’s been great. We’ve kept growing and have recently been able to play shows across the country in places like Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow. Having support from the likes of BBC Introducing, Amazing Radio and BBC 6 Music has helped us really find our feet in the scene and we are chuffed with all the support we get.
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Now when asked about a funny story about the band, there’s a fair few for me to choose from but funnily enough they’re all associated with out lead singer, Lewis.
Our first gig was in 2018 at Pop Recs in Sunderland. At the time we were too young to go out into town so we went back to our local pub for a couple of illegal pints. Lewis, being the lightweight of the group, has one bottle of Newcastle Brown and one jäger bomb that resulted in him running around outside.
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Then he clapped out on the floor. Once a lightweight always a lightweight.
Oh and another story about Lewis being useless …. So this one time, we’re on the road heading to Manchester for a gig somewhere called The Castle Hotel. We get there and the manager asks to check our ID’s with it being an 18+ event. We all hand over our IDs and I look over and see Lewis panicking, he didn’t have his ID.
At the time it was the most stressful two hours of my life!
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The manager said we couldn’t play and everybody tried to sort out another band to play. In the end it was fine and we got to play. Looking back now it’s just funny that we drove three hours to Manchester to nearly be turned away because Lewis forgot his ID.
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