Benni Hemm Hemm - Eliminate Evil, Revive Good Times (2014)

Benni Hemm Hemm is the band of Benedikt H. Hermannsson. He writes the band´s songs and produces the band´s recordings.
The band is an organism that is hard to explain. Its members are in total around 300. At shows the size of the band is usually somewhere from 3 to 40.
Benni Hemm Hemm´s first release was the SummerPlate EP, in the summer of 2003. The EP was a solo release, produced by Benedikt H. Hermannsson. It was released in 30 copies.
The first performance of the big band of Benni Hemm Hemm, was on the 1st of May, 2004, at the 5th birthday of Kitchen Motors. In November the band started recording in Sundlaugin. There were seven songs recorded on 24 tracks on a very busy weekend. In May 2005 the band recorded five more tracks in the infamous Klink & Bank. In September 2005 the Benni Hemm Hemm album was released in Iceland, on Smákökurnar. In early 2006 the album was released in Japan (on P-Vine Records) and in Europe and the US (on Morr Music).
In spring 2006 work started for Kajak. The album was written in a very short time, and recorded in June. The album was released in Iceland in November (on Smákökurnar). In January 2007 Kajak was released in Europe and in May in the US (on Morr Music).
In October 2006 the band performed music to the film Berg-Eyvind (Mountain-Eyvind) at the Reykjavík Film Festival, composed for the event, commisioned by the Reykjavík International Film Festival. There were two perormances at Tjarnarbíó, Reykjavík.
In the Fall of 2007 Benni Hemm Hemm recorded an EP, Ein I leyni, that was released in Iceland in December that year.
Benni Hemm Hemm´s latest album was recorded in February 2008 and released in Iceland in June (on Kimi Records) and in Japan January 2009 (on Afterhours). In the summer of 2009 the album will be released in Europe and the US (on Kimi Records).
Benni Hemm Hemm has played in Tokyo, St. Gallen, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Höfn á Hornafirði, Seyðisfjörður, Portland, Húsavík, Ísafjörður, Kyoto, Houston, Austin, Dresden, Seattle, Stokkseyri, Oslo, Berlin, Brighton, Cleveland, Stockholm, Paris, Washington DC, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Diksmuide, Vienna, Copenhagen, London, New York, Rostock, Philadelphia, Frankfurt, Wilmington, Hannover, Köln, Atlanta, Phoenix, Akureyri, San Francisco, Malmö, Minneapolis, Chicago, Hoboken, Siglufjörður, Boston, Edinburgh.