Ben Lee announces dates

Ben Lee's new album, The Rebirth of Venus (out now) is dedicated to Venus, the Goddess of Love and Beauty. Lee has announced two UK Live dates this March at O2 Academy 2 Birmingham on Thursday 26th and Manchester Academy 3 on Saturday 28th.

Ben Lee has been living as a working musician for over half of his lifetime. Beginning at the age of 14, Lee (now 30) has continued to stay grounded and spiritually focused. Aside from the honor of winning four ARIA Awards (Australia's equivalent to the Grammy), Ben has started to make regular appearances with various symphony orchestras throughout Australia.

Following the first set of sold out symphony performances with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, Ben will play with the Queensland Orchestra in Brisbane featuring hits such as "Catch My Disease," "Cigarettes Will Kill You," "We're All In This Together," and more. He also wrote and produced the original soundtrack to the film "The Square," which was nominated for Best Soundtrack at the 2008 AFI Awards (Australian Equivalent to the Academy Awards).

Ben's songs have been used in over 30 film, TV and commercial syncs off his last two albums. In the last year he's had syncs on "Grey's Anatomy," "One Tree Hill," and Kohl's Department Stores in the US and Coca Cola internationally. His music was also recently used in the trailer for "He's Just Not That Into You," starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Anniston, Drew Barrymore and Scarlett Johansson. Awake is the New Sleep (Ben's first release for New West Records) garnered rave reviews, career-high worldwide sales, and a hit in the track "Catch My Disease." The album went Double Platinum in Australia, where the single went on to become the first ever independently released #1 radio song in Australian history and went Top 10 in Canada, Spain and the Benelux, and Top 20 in the US.

A portion of proceeds from The Rebirth of Venus which was produced by Brad Wood, will be donated to FINCA's Village Banking program. FINCA offers financial services, not charity, to the world's lowest-income women entrepreneurs. This creates jobs, builds assets and generally improves the standard of living in these destitute communities.

To see Ben Lee live:

March
Thursday 26th O2 Academy 2 Birmingham 0844 477 2000
Saturday 28th Manchester Academy 3 0161 832 1111

Tickets are £9 and are available now at www.gigsandtours.com 24 hr cc hotline 0871 2200 260.

For up to date information on Ben, visit www.ben-lee.com