Ben Roberts – Album Launch – Full Band Gig + Guest Support – Pillow
Join us for the official launch of Ben’s latest album Transition. This will be a full band show featuring pieces from the album set among the spellbinding improvised sound journeys that define Ben’s unique and powerful live cello performances
Friday 23rd January 2026 | 7:30pm
@ The Barrel House Ballroom
Tickets:
£12 (+fee) - Full price
£14 (+fee) - Feeling generous (help pay the artists a little more)
£10 (+fee) - A bit cheaper (for those who need it)
Join us for the official launch of Ben’s latest album Transition, released in December 2025, a soundtrack to turbulent times. This will be a full band show featuring pieces from the album set among the spellbinding improvised sound journeys that define Ben’s unique and powerful live cello performances. Spanning disparate realms of spirituality, punk, sound design and alternative healing, cellist Ben Roberts is on a quest to challenge conventional experiences of music, harnessing ancient vedic principles and the science of sound for conscious connection with mind, body and spirit. “We’re creating a new musical paradigm,” says Ben, who last year held a rapt audience in the palm of his hand at St Mary’s Church, Totnes with his ‘Vibrator’ show – praised in CLASH magazine as ‘an uncanny spiritual awakening.’
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