Benedict Roger Wallers is the frontman, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the bandCountry Teasers. His lyrics often deal with taboo subjects such as racism, sexism and xenophobia from first-person standpoints.
Biography
Wallers has been releasing music under various guises since 1995. He is best known for being part of the group Country Teasers, formed in Scotland in the mid 1990s. Wallers is generally regarded to be Scottish, but various places of birth have been put forward, including Saville Row, London and St Albans, Hertfordshire. Country Teasers bassist Sophie Politowicz plays drums in live performances and features on various Rebel recordings. The pair also play together in the band The Devil.
As well as Country Teasers, Wallers records under the moniker The Rebel. Most of the recordings, which are largely abridged musical interpretations of arcane and proper historical text, have not seen official release. Before 1998 The Rebel was not known as The Walrus, but was named Walrus after the Wallers family name. The name 'The Rebel' is a reference and homage to the 1961 film starring Tony Hancock. Ben Wallers represents himself by a symbol called a Spakenkreuz, which is a Swastika with a broken arm, bent backwards to cross over the previous arm in the circularity of the swastika. As far as he is aware, he invented this symbol.
"If Every Day Was Like Christmas / Obey" on Get Thee Behind Me Santa
"Only a dream" on Fruit Machines,
"Hitlers and Churchills" on Sonic protest'',
The Male Nurse
Male Nurse featured Country Teasers regulars Alan Crichton, Eck King, Alastair MacKinven and Lawrence Worthington as well as Keith Farquhar on vocals. The band recorded two Peel Sessions, three singles and appeared on the Guided Missile Records compilation Hits and Missiles. The Male Nurse's output was marked by heavy influence of Mark E. Smith's, The Fall. Releases:
Also the Male nurse Cdr self-released 1998 and 2007.
The Beale
Active between 2000 and 2007, The Beale consisted of Adrian Shaw, Ben Wallers, Leighton Crook, Paul Kearney Peter Hart and Ben Pestell. They released a six-song mini-album titled "21 Years in Kranj", two singles for Guided Missile, and appeared on four compilations.
Skills on Ampex
Skills on Ampex is a joint project between The Invisible Hand, a tapes project by artist Robert McNeill, and The Rebel/Benedict R. Wallers.
The Stallion
The Stallion originated as a musical entity composed of Wallers and Country Teasers guitarist Alastair J. R. MacKinven, which specialized in covers.
The Company
The company is a London recording project involving Amir Shoat and Ben Wallers. Between Autumn 2001 and Spring 2002 they recorded a 99-song album which was then distilled into a twelve-track 12" LP in 2007 and released as Side Three of The Moon on Difficult Time in Mental Jail Records
The Black Poodle
At the turn of the century Ben Wallers was also the vocalist in The Black Poodle who played regular concerts at The Foundry in Old Street, London. The band was the brainchild of Joel Cahen and Amir Shoat, who invited Wallers to collaborate at the concerts by improvising on vocals, guitar and saxophone, which material they would manipulate live.
The Devil
A three-piece group led by Wallers that has only gigged occasionally during the 2000s. They released an album, The Devil, in 2013.
