Ben Christo
Benjamin Christodoulou aka Ben Christo joined The Sisters of Mercy in 2005 to replace long-time guitarist
Adam Pearson, who had left the band after their Twothousandfive Tour.
Ben Christo played his first gig as a guitarist with The Sisters of Mercy during their 25th Stage Anniversary
at the House of Blues on February 16th, 2006 in Las Vegas. The concert was also the starting shot for the
worldwide 2006 Tour Sisters Bite The Silver Bullet.
Since then, Ben Christo plays lead guitar, at times also bass and does some background vocals with
The Sisters of Mercy. Here's an interview with him about how he came to join the band. If you should
need an impression of his guitar playing click here.
Ben Christo is widely known for his love of hard rock, punk, glam, metal and rock in
general. Already before he joined The Sisters, he occasionally appeared as a DJ at
various events. He is currently one of the inhouse-DJs at the weekly Decadence
events, the hard rock hangout in St. Moritz Club, London, Soho.
Right from the beginning some time relatively recently, Ben Christo has also been a
member of Shot Through The Heart, a "monthly night of live hard rock, AOR and
glam metal covers in North London", named after a Bon Jovi song and dedicated
to covering 80s classic tracks from AC/DC, Def Leppard, and Skid Row to
Guns N' Roses, Heart or Whitesnake to mention just a few. Here he would
play (lead) guitar or do the vocals or background vocals. The live sets are usually
enhanced with guest musicians from various rock/glam/metal groups and followed
by an Aftershow DJ-night with Ben Christo until 4am. Ben Christo can be found on
Twitter and Facebook. He is also the vocalist and guitarist of Killswitch UK.
Apart from the above mentioned activities, Ben Christo has also been a founding member of the London-based band Night By Night or, in short, NxN. Starting in 2008,
they produced their first official video Time To Escape followed by the promo video to their most recent single The Moment released on August 5th, 2013. NxN toured
in March 2014 supporting Swedish rockers Europe, who were also sharing the stage with The Sisters of Mercy at Rock Zottegem in July 2014. In June 2015, however,
the band declared "Now, for the foreseeable future, we will be exploring different avenues. Thank you again for all your passion for NxN!!" and went on hiatus. For possibly
upcoming developemts and more info, please keep an eye on the official Night By Night website. The album (and more) can be ordered from here
Some more stuff on/from Ben Christo and NxN
- Already in March 2013, Night By Night was awarded single/EP of the year with "Time To Escape" at the 2013 Pure Rawk Awards.
- On Friday, June 27th, 2014, Classic Rock Magazine played the new NxN single A Thousand Lies on their Tracks of the Week Round-up! Likewise, the according video
- was aired first exclusively via the Classic Rock website. NxN's single A Thousand Lies is now generally available for download @iTunes....
- On 6 Juli 2014, online music magazine Rockoverdose featured an extended interview with Ben Christo about the history of NxN, his music with The Sisters of Mercy,
- the new NxN album, video production, future gigs and touring, and everything one might possibly want to know. It was once available at:
- Ben Christo (NIGHT BY NIGHT, THE SISTERS OF MERCY) on Rock Overdose:"The beauty of NxN is that it is everything I have always loved about music in one band"
- but unfortunately, it has meanwhile disappeared. All we can offer you now, is this large article/interview with Screamer Magazine, L.A. of July 2014:
- http://screamermagazine.com/interviews/proofed-night-night-moment-finally-arrived/
- Another interview of 2014 with Ben Christo (in German language, however) can be found @Terrorverlag.com/Interviews/NightByNightBenChristo...
