Artist Profile

Dennis Hopper Choppers

Label: DWink
Agent: Sinan Ors

One-man-band dynamo, Ex Silverjets and Menlo Park bassist and all round super-music-machine Dennis Hopper Choppers (aka Ben Nicholls) is making quite a name for himself as one of the main characters on the one-man-band circuit.

His debut LP Chop was released in 2007and is 13 tracks of high-plains-via-East-London fretboard wrangling and heartfelt rockabilly stomp, with his rich and astonishingly versatile baritone giving the album a soaring range.

'It was on a night off in New York that I went to '91Brownies' and saw a gig that made me reconsider my musical options. I'd heard of Hasil Adkins through my research in Worthing Library, some kind of mountain man, rockabilly one-man-band, who recorded all of his songs himself in a shack at his home, never managed to find any of his records though.

'There he was, a man of about 70, birds nest hair, beat-up guitar, bass drum and high hat, playing scary songs about ugly women and death. When the audience pissed him off he got up and smashed his guitar over the high hat and left the stage, it all made such sense. It was at this moment that the Dennis Hopper Choppers began to plant itself as an idea in my head. Hmmmm''