Bio
Benni Hemm Hemm is the band of Benedikt H. Hermannsson. He writes the band´s songs and produces the band´s recordings.
The band is an organism that is hard to explain. Its members are in total around 300. At shows the size of the band is usually somewhere from 3 to 40.
Benni Hemm Hemm was born when he released the SummerPlate E.P. in the summer of 2003. The E.P. was a solo release, produced by Benedikt H. Hermannsson. It was released in 30 copies.
The first performance of the big band of Benni Hemm Hemm, was on the 1st of May, 2004, at the 5th birthday of Kitchen Motors. And after that performance there was no turning back. In November the band started recording in Sundlaugin. There were seven songs recorded on 24 tracks on a very busy weekend. In May 2005 the band recorded five more tracks in the infamous Klink & Bank.
In September 2005 the Benni Hemm Hemm album was released in Iceland, on Smákökurnar. In early 2006 the album was released in Japan (P-Vine )and in Europe and the US (Morr Music).
In spring 2006 work started for Kajak. The album was written in a very short time, and recorded in June.
The album was released in Iceland in November, on Smákökurnar.
Early 2007 Kajak was released in Europe and in the US in May (Morr Music).
In October 2007 the band performed music to the film Berg-Eyvind (Mountain-Eyvind) at the Reykjavík Film Festival, composed for the event, commisioned by the Reykjavík International Film Festival. There were two perormances at Tjarnarbíó, Reykjavík.
Benni Hemm Hemm has played in Tokyo, St. Gallen, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Höfn á Hornafirði, Seyðisfjörður, Portland, Húsavík, Ísafjörður, Kyoto, Houston, Austin, Dresden, Seattle, Stokkseyri, Oslo, Berlin, Brighton, Cleveland, Stockholm, Paris, Washington DC, Dublin, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Diksmuide, Vienna, Copenhagen, London, Luxembourg, Edinburgh, New York, Rostock, Philadelphia, Frankfurt, Wilmington, Hannover, Köln, Glasgow, Atlanta, Phoenix, Akureyri, San Francisco, Malmö, Minneapolis, Chicago, Hoboken, Siglufjörður, Boston, Cologne, Strassburg, Cork
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Saga
Benni Hemm Hemm er hljómveit Benedikts H. Hermannssonar. Hann semur lögin sem hljómsveitin flytur og stýrir upptökum í félagi við frábæra samstarfsmenn.
Hljómsveitin er fyrirbæri sem erfitt er að útskýra. Heildarfjöldi hljómsveitarmeðlima er í kringum 300, en á tónleikum er hljómsveitin yfirleitt mönnuð 3 – 40 manns.
Benni Hemm Hemm varð til þegar hann gaf út smábreiðskífuna (EP) SummerPlate sumarið 2003. Smábreiðskífan var sólóplata, pródúseruð af Benedikt og var gefin út í 30 eintökum.
Fyrstu tónleikar hinnar stóru hljómsveitar Benna Hemm Hemm voru 1. Maí 2004, á 5 ára afmæli Tilraunaeldhússins. Og eftir þá tónleika var ekki aftur snúið. Í nóvember byrjaði hljómsveitin að taka upp í Sundlauginni í Mosfellsbæ. Þar voru 7 lög tekin upp á 24 rásir á einni helgi. Í maí 2005 tók hljómsveitin svo upp 5 lög til viðbótar í hinu víðfræga Klink & Bank.
Í september 2005 gáfu Smákökurnar út samnefnda hljómplöta sveitarinnar. Snemma árs 2006 gaf P-Vine records svo plötuna út í Japan, en þýska plötuútgáfufyrirtækið Morr Music gaf plötuna út í Evrópu og Bandaríkjunum.
Vorið 2006 hófst vinna við næstu hljómplötu sveitarinnar, Kajak. Lögin voru samin á mjög skömmum tíma og tekin upp í júní.
Kajak var gefin út af Smákökunum á Íslandi í nóvember sama ár. Snemma árs 2007 gaf svo Morr Music út Kajak um víða veröld.
Í október 2007 samdi Benedikt tónlist við kvikmyndina Fjalla-Eyvind, sem hljómsveitin flutti á Kvikmyndahátíð í Reykjavík. Verkið var flutt tvisvar í Tjarnarbíói.
Benni Hemm Hemm hefur leikið í Tokyo, St. Gallen, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Höfn á Hornafirði, Seyðisfjörður, Portland, Húsavík, Ísafjörður, Kyoto, Houston, Austin, Dresden, Seattle, Stokkseyri, Oslo, Berlin, Brighton, Cleveland, Stockholm, Paris, Washington DC, Dublin, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Diksmuide, Vienna, Copenhagen, London, Luxembourg, Edinburgh, New York, Rostock, Philadelphia, Frankfurt, Wilmington, Hannover, Köln, Glasgow, Atlanta, Phoenix, Akureyri, San Francisco, Malmö, Minneapolis, Chicago, Hoboken, Siglufjörður, Boston, Cologne, Strassburg, Cork