Ben Ottewell & Ian Ball & Ben Ottewell in Fremantle

Ben Ottewell & Ian Ball are English singer-songwriters and guitarists, best known as founding members of Gomez. They helped form the band in Southport in 1996 and contributed to its multi-vocal sound on albums including the Mercury Prize-winning debut Bring It On and Liquid Skin. Their best-known songs include “Whippin’ Piccadilly,” “Get Myself Arrested” and “How We Operate.” Ben Ottewell & Ian Ball played Glastonbury Festival with Gomez in the band’s early years and later returned to the road for the 2018 Bring It On 20th-anniversary tour. Anniversary concerts for Liquid Skin followed, before the pair took their shared repertoire into smaller UK clubs and theatres under their own names. The pair perform as singers and guitarists, drawing on their solo records as well as songs they wrote and recorded with Gomez.

Ben Ottewell is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known as one of the three lead vocalists in the alternative-rock band Gomez. The group formed in Southport in 1996, and its debut album, Bring It On, won the Mercury Prize. Ottewell’s solo records include Shapes & Shadows, Rattlebag and A Man Apart. In 2018, Ben Ottewell toured with Gomez for the 20th anniversary of Bring It On, performing the album in full. The group returned to the album-in-full format for its 25th-anniversary concerts in 2023. His solo concerts center on his voice and acoustic guitar, drawing on his own records and the Gomez catalogue. He has also toured in a two-songwriter format with fellow Gomez member Ian Ball. With Gomez, he performed at Glastonbury Festival and V Festival.