Cahill Grill: The Smallgoods’ Ben Mason picks dream dinner party guests and Desert Island Discs

The Smallgoods’ Ben Mason picks dream dinner party guests and Desert Island Discs ahead of their Satellite video premiere

EVERYONE’s favourite band called The Smallgoods is back with a video premiere of Satellite in this here nook and/or cranny of the internet.
You’ll need go right to the bottom of this Cahill Grill to watch it, that’s how you scroll.

Let's check in with big Small’ dog Ben Mason about what makes him fire up and what makes him Netflix n grill.

Real name?

Benjamin Mason

Guilty pleasure?

S Club 7

Where is home?

In bed underneath my three cats

Career Plan B?

Musician

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Biggest annoyance?

The non existent word “incidences”

Earliest Memory?

Drinking strawberry milk at kindergarten

Your Best Quality?

Having a good memory

And your Worst?

Having a good memory

The Smallgoods - Melbourne band with new single Satellite

5 Dream dinner party guests?

Chris White (The Zombies), my dad, my wife, a couple of people to do the dishes

5 Desert Island discs?

Odyssey and Oracle - The Zombies, The Party - Andy Shauf, Circle High and Wide - Snout, Thunderhead - Clouds, Greatest Hits - S Club 7

Advice to teenage self?

Everything in Back to the Future comes true!!

What did you have for breakfast today?

Hot chocolate with mozzarella in it - it’s a thing. And a good thing at that!

Top of your bucket list?

Don’t have one

Biggest inspiration?

My primary school music teacher used to give a Mars bar to the best recorder player in class each week. So, chocolate.

Secret crush?

Alison Brie

Secret skill?

Terrible at the drums

Melbourne band the Smallgoods IN 2003. L-R: Shags Chamberlain, Ben Browning, Ben Mason, Gus Franklin, Lachy Franklin

What do you see when you look in the mirror?

A reminder to buy Windex

Starstruck moment?

Meeting Brian Wilson on stage before his latest Melbourne performance. I got the vibe that the feeling was mutual

Career highlight?

Performing Odyssey and Oracle in its entirety with a killer band to a gracious audience.

Favourite tipple?

Melbourne Breakfast

FUN SONGS BIT AND A REWARD FOR ANSWERING THOSE QUESTIONS

Song that always makes you shake your rump and nearly split your pants and why?

Don’t Stop Movin’ - S Club 7. It’s like the Jackson 5 but way less soul.

Song that is a hidden gem that not many people know about but everyone should know about and love…and how you discovered it?

Don’t Want to Say Goodbye - Cut Worms. It’s everything good about the ‘60s, but from now. Think Everly Brothers meets Of Montreal.

Song that you would gladly listen to 5 times in a row if you were stuck in an elevator for half an hour and you had to think calm thoughts?

Never My Love - The Association

Song to prepare you for battle, fire you the f**k up and make you feel like you were armed to teeth and why?

Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye. I’m a lover, not a fighter

Song to get someone you rather fancy in the mood for luuuuuuurve?

Anything by Prince.

How did you develop your creative vision?

By paying attention to small details and spending time inside my brain.

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE (ECHOES)

Here the band stumbles out of the Dandenongs and into a city full of sky and back into our collective consciousness with Satellite.

SEE: The Smallgoods, Evelyn Morris, Ross McLennan, The Spotted Mallard, Sydney Rd, Brunswick, Fri, April 5. $17.64. https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/the-smallgoods-satelite-single-launch/110998

HEAR: Lost In The Woods, (due June) The Lost & Lonesome Recording Co.