Ben GC - DJ / South of Houston

06/04/2024

Me and him DJing TONIGHT at the Fortune Brighton - 8pm onwards!!! Brings it likes its summerzzzzzz 🔥🔥🔥

27/06/2023

THIS SATURDAY! 1st July / Nick The Record + Ben GC

July’s edition of the long running South of Houston parties sees the very welcome return for Nick The Record. A genuine legend of the dance music community across the globe, Nick currently holds a residency at The Jazz Cafe in London, and runs his uber cool Tangent nights at Pickle Factory in Lond...

25/01/2022

Party party soon soon

13/11/2020

Please join me Next Friday 20th November, 7-10pm for a DJ Livestream by me, Ben GC, for an evening of music and fun, some good money raised for charity and no doubt a silver skirt…

Six months ago, after a series of weekly livestreams on Twitch, just to bring us all together in a new version of music and drinking as we entered the brave world of lockdown, I did this fundraising event as part of the weekender for Last Night a DJ Saved My Life Foundation ( ).

With the help of an absolute s**t-ton of you lot, a cumulative obscene consumption of booze across the British isles and abroad, and some old music we had an evening of immense fun and worthy charitable achievement.

I think i put a target of £250 on the just giving page and yet by end of an evening of me channeling every ounce of Lenny Henry style televised fundraising power I had we pushed towards £1500 when all the gift aid was counted. This was a significant chunk of the total money of SetForLove MK1.

SIX MONTHS LATER and we go again! Next weekend is the Christmas Appeal Weekender where livestreams will be going all across the world with thousands of DJs taking part, some big headliners (notably Carl Cox and Ben GC).

The work that Jonny Lee and LNADJ does for amazing causes across African and Asia is fantastic and the speed at which the money hits the ground, untouched by any other fees, wages or charges is incredible - every quid literally helps! Funds raised in this Set For Love Xmas Appeal will be distributed across a number ofprojects in developing countries focussed on creating sustainable futures for vulnerable children and young adults. These include projects to stop child labour and get children into education, construction of new schools, centres for the rehabilitation of young girls who have experienced s*x trafficking and domestic abuse, the creation of sustainable resources including water wells.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me, by a) not only joining me to have a really wonderful evening just as we are once again stuck back indoors for Lockdown2.0 but b) to please share this with friends and help to get some more people tuned in and hopefully donating.

😘😘

18/05/2020

WE MADE NEARLY £1400 SO FAR!!!!!
and just so you know, that money has already started to hit the ground in areas in crisis as early as midweek last week!!!! no nonsense, no red tape, no CEOs salaries, your cash went straight out to where it was needed. £50k in total was raised over the course of the weekend. HUGE LOVE xx

JUST WANTED TO SAY A HUGE THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!!! mind well and truly blown.... after an epic 6.5 hour marathon drinking and laughing session and about 100 tunes we raised well over a grand and donations still coming in now mean we have almost hit £1400 with the gift aid included!! We even managed ...

05/05/2020

Please get involved in this on Friday!!
FEEL FREE TO START DONATING NOW. THE MORE THAT’S IN THERE, THE BETTER/SILLIER THE SHOW.
Let’s do some silly things for some brilliant causes
🙌😀🤠

Help Ben GC raise money to support The Last Night A DJ Saved My Life Foundation

04/05/2020

PLEASE SHARE THIS POST.

Big up all of you who have been involved in (ie. witnessed, joined along with, raved to, drunk to, fallen over to...) the Ben GC / South of Houston livestreams every weekend for the past few!!! As you should hopefully be aware this week's livestream is coming to you on Bank Holiday Friday 8th May from 6-9pm ish ;) , as apparently Friday is the new Saturday.

To make things even betterer, we're joining up with the largest DJ event livestream weekend thingymabob and dead excited too. It means that as well as all the normal fun/chaos/shamelessness we can also raise some money for very decent causes during this mad mad time. The DJ Saved My Life Foundation is close to our hearts with our good friend heavily involved, so please come and watch, come and dance, join me, bring beers and a few quid to donate to a worthy cause! Their Covid19 emergency Appeal needs your attention and a few little dollars. Promo coming tomorrow.

Inviting DJs all over the world to broadcast simultaneous live streams to raise funds for Last Night A DJ Saved My Life's Covid-19 Emergency Appeal.

01/05/2020

Here's a little edit of the after dark part of the livestream from last week. Back once again for more civilised Lockdown antics tomorrow (Saturday 2nd May) from 6-9pm. Do please join us, you'll need a big pile of beers and a decent sized space to roll around in. twitch.tv/bengc5000 please give the twitch channel a follow and don't forget to invite your pals!

26/04/2020

Thanks to everyone who came and joined Ben Gc on saturday evening. Umpteen outfit changes, a nod to David Byrne, loads of disco, afro and house and even some Maxi Priest, only ran 30 minutes over and remembered the whole thing which is some improvement on the week before! Your comments and interaction make it what it is. If you fancy watching or listening again, get it now before the copyright algos get stuck in and portions of it get muted in the next few days....

THE PROFESH SESH...... https://www.twitch.tv/videos/602425524

AND See you next weekend for the next installment 😀😜
To be notified of exactly when the next episode will be next weekend please give twitch.tv/bengc5000 a follow and you will be notified in due course!!!!!

bengc5000 - Music & Performing Arts - Twitch

08/04/2020

05/04/2020

last night's party was a huge success and we all had loads of fun - some of us maybe too much fun 😂

3 hours billed turned into an unsurprising 5 hours seeing us through til midnight - apologies to the neighbours. Was my first time livestreaming anything so bear with as I'm sure we'll improve over time. Here's to many more, but if you wish to watch last night's fun it'll be online for a week or two. Sign up to twitch and follow me and you'll be notified of when future livestreams happen but I'll be sure to try and post the news up here too!
Last night party: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/583286274
Follow Ben Gc here: https://www.twitch.tv/bengc5000

Big shout out to everyone who helped make it happen and of course big happy birthday to Emma Hillman and anyone else who celebrated last night. xx

bengc5000 - Music & Performing Arts - Twitch

12/02/2019

Damn, we're half way through Feb, time for some South of Houston news about our monthly parties at the Fortune Brighton.......

Big shout out to Jackson Lee for manning the ship for the JANUARY party. 😍

Coming up for your delights soon, first of all,
THIS SATURDAY (Sat 16th Feb) sees Mike Bradbury (Balearic Ultras Radio Show) and Dan Storey (Last Night A DJ Saved My Life) stepping out for some B2B biznizz.... two of not only the nicest, but possibly the most handsomest, DJs in town... megaswoon.💋

MARCH's party (Sat 16th Mar) sees long time South of Houston badman resident, Ben Monk with a special guest for the night Mr Jan Hammered (Spiritland / London etc)... muchos noice! 🍰

APRIL (Sat 27th Apr [not our usual 3rd saturday of the month slot]), we've got our intrepid explorer David Loja, fresh back from Guadeloupe with more wax than a Caribbean candle factory playing alongside yours truly, Ben Gc. This s**t goes off! If you know, you know 💥

And for MAY (Sat 18th May), who's your daddy?! that's right, 10 year resident and superhuman Duncan Paterson joins Ben GC - DJ / South of Houston for festival time rinse out.

After that it's summer and that means seaside South of Houston carnival on the beach at the Fortune. 3rd Saturday every month. Peas and disco. 🏝✌️

Big up to Laurence, Nino, Sebastien, Carley, Jake and all the crew at the Fortune of war. bring on 2019.

11/01/2019

Heads up.... the wonderful Jackie and Jayne are manning the decks for the first South of Houston party of the year. Next weekend, Saturday 19th January at the fortune of war. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

21/12/2018

A little something to push on towards the weekend with.... ✌️😎

https://www.discogs.com/Hot-Chocolate-I-Just-Love-What-Youre-Doing/release/997995 https://kon1200.bandcamp.com/track/i-just-love-what-youre-doing

16/10/2018

After a medium extended stint out of the country I'm pleased to get straight back into action by playing at this awesome party in Brighton on FRIDAY with old B-town associate Ali Back (not sure we've played on the same bill for at least a couple of years). Should be a fun night with the Wolfcub Digital crew at The Western Front.

+ you can catch me at the The Eddy "Edinburgh" for rarely seen these days Ben GC vinyl throwdown on SATURDAY night, this weekend (20th October)... now, just need to find someone to carry me rekids.... 😂👍

01/10/2018

If like me your sitting by a pool in Andalucia, Southern Spain, in the 27 degree heat, drinking a beer and daydreaming, this is the perfect accompaniment! 🍺🌞
Alternatively, works just fine in the office.

This is a marvellous mix of laid back grooves from my old chum and Morzine DJ brother, KVNG, who's out in SF currently. ENJOY 👍👍👍👍

Recent mix I've put together including samples recorded on my latest trip

29/08/2018

And to keep things rolling, here's the awesome Ben GC show from 1BTN a couple of weeks ago.... plenty of
beauties on this one ✌️👊

Link for listening: https://www.mixcloud.com/ben-gc/ben-gc-thursday-23rd-august-lunchtime-show-12-230pm/

Tracklisting:

Grandbrothers - Ezra Was Right
Makadem / Behr - Nyako
Amadou Et Mariam - Bara (Joaquin’s Sacred Rhythm Dance)
Sacha Mambo / Keeto - Sending My Love
Turf - East Side Harmony
KH - Question
Luke Vibert - I Love Acid
Secret Squirrels 11 - Side A
Jaime Read - Symphony 808
Key Tronics Ensemble - Calypso Of House (Paradise Mix)
Loraine Jonson - The More I get
Kleeer - Open Your Mind (Joey Negro Seeekret Mix)
Blaze - Seasons Of Love
Nova Nova - Tones
Aussteiger - Alura
Roundtree - Get On Up
Burnin Beat Feat. Olive Masinga - Searchin
Ray Mang - Aphreako
Diskobeistit - Birkelunden
Demuja - Move
Body Music - Just One
T Coy - Carino

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29/08/2018

Friday Feel Good Pride Special from a few weeks back is finally up on mixcloud :) if you aren't ok with a fair bit of poptastic cheese, oodles of glittery disco and plenty of 80s you might wanna leave this one, you cold-hearted misery guts......

😉

Link to listen: https://www.mixcloud.com/ben-gc/ben-gc-fri-3rd-aug-friday-feel-good-pride-special-1-4pm/

Tracklisting:

Karriem Riggins - Summer Madness
Pino D’Angio - Hey Ciao Tu (Guido Minisky & The Reflex Edit)
The O’Jays - I Love Music (Joey Negro Sweet Music Mix)
Diana Ross - Have Fun Again
Roy Ayers - Love Will Bring Us Back Together (DJ Vas Rework)
Hercules And Love Affair - Hercules Theme
Crazy P - The Come On
Groove Armada Feat. Candi Staton - Paris
Wetty Bright - Slip Do It (V Feels So Good Edit)
Loraine Jonson - The More I Get
Orlando Julius - Disco Hi-Life (2009 Edit)
Bananarama - Cruel Summer (Extended Mix)
Donna Summer - Spring Affair
Thelma Houston & George Benson - Don’t Leave Me This Way
Harold Melvin & The Blue Tones - Don’t Leave Me This Way
The Communards Feat. Sarah Jane Morris - Don’t Leave Me This Way
Linda Clifford - Runaway Love (12” Version)
Cotonete Vs Dimitri From Paris - Parribean Disco
Adeva - In And Out Of My Life
Cerrone - Supernature
Sheryl Lee Ralph - In The Evening
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (12” Extended Mix)
Christine And The Queens - Damn, Dis Moi
Masters At Work - Work (Eugene Glasgow Rejacked Mix)
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Cameo - Candy
Double Exposure - My Love Is Free (DM House Version)

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01/08/2018

Ben GC radio show on 1BTN from last Thursday!
GO GO GO!! 🔊🔊🔊✌️✌️✌️
Listen>>> https://www.mixcloud.com/ben-gc/ben-gc-1btn-thurs-26th-july-10am-12noon/
Tracklist>>>
Margie Joseph - I Can’t Move No Mountains
Gwen Guthrie - Seventh Heaven
Windy City - Chicago (Kon Edit)
Project Sandro - Tears
Letta Mbulu - Normalizo
Kiki Dee - Chicago
Carbonara Tomkinson - To Get Kinky
Sudan Archives - Come Meh Way
Amadou Et Mariam - Bara (Joaquins African Dub)
Rocha - Hands Of Love (Fingers Of Sand)
Stratus - Fireflies
Romare - Rainbow (Club Mix)
Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer
Cotonete Vs Dimitri From Paris - The Hustle Parisian
Voilaaa - On Te L’Avait Dit (Dimitri From Paris Super Disco Blend)
Carthago - Alech
Marcos Valle - Estreller
Sinnamon - I Need You Now
Cameo - Candy

30/07/2018

Catch me DJing at the mega 1BTN Pride party at Fortune of war on Saturday from 9-10pm.

27/06/2018

STOP THE PRESS: Catch BEN GC and Duncan Paterson playing some ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ grooves THIS AFTERNOON at the Fortune of war on Brighton Seafront. Beer / Tunes / Sunshine.... what's not to like?! 😎

Soul Makossa Manu Dibango Label: Atlantic Released: 1973 Written By, Composed By, Arranged By -- Manu Dibango "Soul Makossa" is a song released as a single i...

26/06/2018

Awesome fun had at La Bonne Aventure festival in Dunkirk this weekend playing on the Bug Bar. Take me back to France immediately!!! :) ❤️❤️☀️😎 Ben Gc

GO GO GO ! Ben GC aux platines de son soundtruck directement sur la digue, on commence à s'ambiancer ! 🕺🌊

26/06/2018

26/06/2018

09/05/2018

Ben Gc will be playing this AWESOME 48hr party (line-up is ridiculous) form 9-10am on the Saturday morning. Check out this wicked promo vid by Jøsh Dee.... 18th-20th May, Great Escape Weekend. Get plenty of rest before then, folks! 😀🤘

18/01/2018

Fresh 2 hour house mix from Ben Gc as played live on 1BTN last week! '95-'05. all vinyl. all good. enjoy >>>

Listen: https://www.mixcloud.com/ben-gc/south-of-houston-w-ben-gc-house-house-house-thursday-11th-jan-1btn/

09/11/2017

Tonight's South of Houston will see another look into the past as we take you back to the 1995-2001 era, specifically one corner of the UK club scene. The melting pot where UK Funky moved through into 2-Step, Speed Garage, UKG with hints of US House squeezed into the mix - aka GARAGE. This 2 hour straight up B2B session sees old man Ben Gc playing alongside the young-Hungarian-gun David Loja who has recently discovered 'Garage' (remember he was well under 10 year's old during that period).
Join them from 8-10pm this evening LIVE from anywhere in the world on www.1BTN.fm or 101.4FM if you in the Brighton zone. Eeeee-Zeeeee. ✌️

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14/09/2017

For dancing in Brighton this weekend.....

The Bens // The Fortune // Sat 16th Sep

06/02/2017

Last week's radio show with Ben GC and Big Al
https://www.mixcloud.com/ben-gc/south-of-houston-show-thursday-2nd-feb-ben-gc-with-guest-big-al/

Joined once again By Alastair 'Big Al' Reid for a little dip into his extensive record collection. Start off with some house and take you full circle via some Indian Rolling Stones. OBVS.

24/01/2017

Last week's radio show on 1 Brighton FM featuring Ben Gc and Tara Elie..... Check it out! BEWARE: contains utter nonsense :)

Worst possible inauguration avoidance, international cuisine clangers, christmas memories, burps, rowdy fan heaters and awful regional accents. Ben GC and Tara together for the first time in 2017. New Year banter and tune dropping of the highest order. Hold tight. Join Ben GC on Thursday 26th Januar...