BREAKING: Ben Lee is fun! Ask him, he’ll tell you. Ben Lee has been one of Australia’s most successful singer songwriters of the new millennium. Cigarette’s Will Kill You and Catch My Disease have been radio staples for years and his 2006 smash, We’re All In This Together became an unofficial Aussie anthem during the pandemic. Never one to take himself seriously, Ben is in it for the good times. A prolific collaborator, Ben has worked with too many artists to mention, runs a podcast network and even directs movies! “I’m Fun!” is not only the name of his most recent album of pop gems full of songs with names like “Born for this Bullshit” “Arsehold” and “Parents Get High”, it is also the mission statement that has guided him through a 3 decade long career. “Professionals are the worst part of the music industry, they’re pretty much ruining it,” he tells me with a wink “I’ve always put adventure as my first priority. Full-tilt, all the time. Fun is the unexpected. Fun is building something, burning it down, then building it back, bigger, weirder and better.” Ben is also a renowned collaborator with friends and allies like Ben Folds, Sarah Silverman, Lena Dunham, Shamir, Christian Lee Hutson, Zooey Deschanel, Washington, Georgia Maq, Money Mark, Tom Robbins and Josh Radnor. He also runs a podcast network with his wife, actress Ione Skye, built around the couple’s flagship show “Weirder Together”. There are basically no rules in Ben’s creative world, and his live show follows the same policy: Fun is always the compass.