Media

MEDIA APPEARANCES/INTERVIEWS

• The Times (UK/Ireland): “Songwriting duo lifted by You Raise Me Up ruling”. Interviewer: Pavel Barter. April 12, 2020. link • pdf
• The Guardian (UK): “A hit, a writ: why music is the food of plagiarism lawsuits“. Interviewer: Michael Hann (London). March 26, 2020.
• The Times (UK): “Don’t play it again Sam, studios told amid plagiarism fears“. Interviewer: Will Pavia (New York). April 6, 2019
• New York Times: “‘Blurred Lines’ on Their Minds, Songwriters Create Nervously“. Interviewer: Ben Sisario. March 31, 2019
• BBC Radio Scotland: Hal Blaine’s drumming from ‘Be My Baby’: analysis and discussion. Interviewer: Isabel Fraser. March 16, 2019. Audio.
• WBUR (NPR/Radio Boston). “Is It Time To Pull ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ Out Of The Christmas Song Rotation?”. Panel discussion with Maura Johnston. Interviewer: Chris Citorik. December 19th, 2018. Audio.
• ABC (Australian national radio) Science Friction series. “The Beatles… The evolutionary science of pop music. Discussion between Joe Bennett and Armand Leroi. Presenter: Natasha Mitchell. December 16, 2017. Summary. Full podcast (28min).
• Daily Telegraph (UK). Interview about ABBA’s enduring appeal. December 12, 2017. Interviewer: Alice Vincent. Article
• Newsweek (USA): “Happiest Christmas song” research project. December 10, 2017. Interviewer: Dana Dovey. Article
• The Guardian (UK): Has Pop Finally Run Out of Tunes? April 13th, 2017. Interviewer: Peter Robinson. Article
• RTE Radio 1 (Ireland): Plagiarism in songwriting. April 12th, 2017. Interviewer: John Creedon.
• The Guardian (UK): Ed Sheeran may regret Photograph that led to $20m copyright case. April 12th, 2017. Interviewer: Hannah Ellis-Petersen. Article
• Daily Telegraph (UK). Interview about Ed Sheeran’s appeal and success. March 7th, 2017. Interviewer: Alice Vincent. Article
• This Week In Law (TV) How Do You Define a Musical Work? Ep #369. December 9th, 2016. Interviewers: Denise Howell and J. Michael Keys. Video.
• KIRO radio: What is a Forensic Musicologist? November 1, 2016. Interviewer: Rachel Belle. Transcript.
• New York Times: The Man Musicians Call When Two Tunes Sound Alike. October 11, 2016. Interview with Peter Oxendale, Guy Protheroe and Joe Bennett. Interview: Alex Marshall. Article.
• Virgin Radio: interview about memorabilility of song hooks. Interview: Jamie East, September 28, 2016. Audio.
• BBC Radio Scotland: interview about the Millennial Whoop. Interviewer: Isabel Fraser. September 3, 2016. Audio.
• BBC News Facebook Live: interview about Forensic Musicology. Interviewer: Dino Sofos. August 10, 2016. Video.
• LA Times: Popular music and the loss of anger. Interviewer: Lorraine Ali. July 15, 2016. Article.
• NPR Weekend Edition: Interview about alleged Stairway to Heaven plagiarism. Interviewer: Scott Simon. 18 June, 2016. Transcript.
• BBC TV News: interview about alleged Stairway To Heaven plagiarism. Interviewer: Jane Hill. 14 June, 2016.
• Associated Press (Salon.com/Washington Times/ABC news etc). Commentary on Stairway to Heaven. 16 June, 2016. Article.
• BBC Radio Scotland: interview about Ed Sheeran’s Photograph. Interviewer: Bill Whiteford. 9 June 2016.
• Virgin Radio UK: interview about Ed Sheeran’s Photograph and alleged similarity to Matt Cardle’s Amazing. Interviewer: Jamie East. 9 June 2016.
• BBC Radio Scotland: feature about Forensic Musicology. Good Morning Scotland. Interviewer: Laura Maxwell. 16 April 2016.
• BBC Radio 5 live: interview about alleged Stairway to Heaven plagiarism. BBC R5 Afternoon Edition. Interviewers: Sarah Brett and Ore Oduba. 12 April 2016. Audio.
• The Daily Telegraph – ‘Why does Sam Smith’s Bond theme Writing’s on the Wall sound like Michael Jackson’s Earth Song?’. 25 Sept 2015. Interview.
• BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat – ‘How to tell if a song’s been copied’. Broadcast 22 Sept 2015. Interview
• BBC TV The One Show – discussion of the history of Auto-Tune. Broadcast April 2015. YouTube.
• MTV News – discussion of the influences of ‘She’s Kinda Hot’. 20 July 2015. Web interview.
• Discovery Channel ‘Man vs Expert’ – blues guitar with Alexis Conran. Worldwide syndication, from March 2015.
• The Irish Independent – on Blurred Lines / Got To Give It Up comparison. 11 March 2015. Interview.
• The Guardian – interview about forensic musicology. 20 January 2015.
• MTV news – discussion of Uptown Funk. 9 January 2015.
• Voice of Russia Radio – The Brendan Cole programme: ‘Stairway to Heaven and Taurus – panel discussion’. Panelist. Audio. 3 June 2014.
• BBC Radio 4 Today programme: ‘Earworms – why do songs get stuck in our heads?’. With Elizabeth Margulis. Audio. 28 January 2014.
• [as composer] Rockschool compositions (2006-2011 and 2012-2018) performed by guitar examination candidates in schools and other examination venues worldwide.
• UK Songwriting Festival band: guitar and musical director, Bath Spa University (2005-2011) and Bladnoch, Scotland (2012-13).
• [as composer] Songs co-written with Andi Neate performed at festivals and related venues (Glastonbury Festival, Wicker Man Festival, international touring etc). 2009-2014.
• Song for Bath 2011: musical director, guitarist and judge.
• Joe Bennett and the Burnsong songwriters, Burnsong The Homecoming, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh (30.11.09). Concert and interview broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland.
• Burnsong The Gathering, BBC TV centre Glasgow (30.11.07). Interview broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland.