2023 Shows
January 19th - Ben Chapman-Smith featured headliner at Bridie Molloy’s Open Mic - St John’s NL
January 28th - Ben Chapman-Smith at Landwash Brewery - St John’s NL
2021 Shows
January 25th - Ben Chapman-Smith Hosts MusicNL’s open mic @ The Ship - St John’s NL
April 5th - Ben Chapman-Smith Hosts MusicNL’s open mic @ The Ship - St John’s NL
May 24th - Ben Chapman-Smith Hosts MusicNL’s open mic @ The Ship - St John’s NL
June 5th - Benedict Drinks @ NinePenny Brewing - CBS NL
June 12th - Benedict Drinks @ Newfoundland Distillery - Clark’s Beach NL
June 25 - Slowpoke @ The Corner Pocket With Ultimata - Corner Brook NL
June 26th - Benedict Drinks @ RagnaRock Brewing - St Anthony’s NL
June 30th - Benedict Drinks @ Bumble Bee Bight Brewing - Pilley’s Island NL
July 1st - Benedict Drinks @ Bumble Bee Bight Brewing - Pilley’s Island NL
July 3rd - Benedict Drinks @ Port Rexton Brewing - Port Rexton NL
July 4th - Benedict Drinks @ Dildo Brewing Co. - Dildo NL
July 5th - Ben Chapman-Smith Hosts MusicNL’s open mic @ The Ship - St John’s NL
July 10th - Benedict Drinks @ Baccalieu Trail Brewing - Bay Roberts NL
July 24th - Benedict Drinks @ Quidi Vidi Brewing - St John’s NL
August 5th - Benedict Drinks @ Landwash Brewery - Mt Pearl NL
August 20th - Hot Dog! @ Plan B With Jim Jones and Ultimata - St John’s NL
August 21st - Slowpoke lp Release @ The Rock House with sHeavy and The Birchmen - St John’s NL
August 26th - Benedict Drinks @ Boomstick Brewing - Corner Brook
September 20th - Ben Chapman-Smith Hosts MusicNL’s open mic @ The Ship - St John’s NL
October 25th - Ben Chapman-Smith Hosts MusicNL’s open mic @ The Ship - St John’s NL
November 1st - Ben Chapman-Smith Hosts MusicNL’s open mic @ The Ship - St John’s NL
November 22nd - Ben Chapman-Smith Hosts MusicNL’s open mic @ The Ship - St John’s NL
November 27th - (Not so) Silent Nights Christmas Quartet @ The Ship - St John’s NL
December 13th - Ben Chapman-Smith Hosts MusicNL’s open mic @ The Ship - St John’s NL
December 17th - (Not so) Silent Nights Christmas Quartet @ Quidi Vidi Brewing - St John’s NL
December 23rd - (Not so) Silent Nights Christmas Quartet Live Stream @ Bad Times Club - St John’s NL
News
2022 NEWS
Comprehensive Slowpoke News
Slowpoke Live in Aregentia Video
https://doomedandstoned.com/post/685773958865387520/slowpoke?fbclid=IwAR2gj5Mf-6PJA_HXPthi5lgonxhoW_WZgmmYy9MRgsPhroCjww3a3NrsTwQ
“SLOWPOKE belong to that strange, and because of that elite, group of bands that relish in what should be called omnimetal…The St. John’s collaboration of Ben Chapman-Smith (bass, vox), Cameron Legge (guitar), Adam Young (drums) float effortlessly (and at time jerk violently) between rock and metal subgenres, grabbing a little of this, dabbing on a little bit of that, a joyful (if jagged) potpourri of sludge, desert, stoner-doom, psychedelic and prog.”
-Billy Goate, Doomed and Stoned
Slowpoke Chart info
Live In Argentia video #52 on Tinnitist’s Weekend Mixtape
https://tinnitist.com/2022/06/01/midweek-mixtape-139-songs-from-a-whopper-of-a-wednesday-side-3/?fbclid=IwAR3P4joVWyvQ3O3Kc537MNhZ-V60nmxGnCY4m6_8SepawraY9iQ0rL98WKM
2021 NEWS
Slowpoke LP Reviews
“Despite their chosen name, Slowpoke is Anything but a Slouch…… A welcome blast of fresh air from our friends to the north”
- Billy Goate, Doomed and Stoned
https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2021/08/04/slowpoke-self-titled-windtalker-premiere/?fbclid=IwAR05Dt_0aUN3PcnSOGJ0lwJbl5cOOwXEbGwQ2fd5Czs3eGhGzfSe2g5wkZU
”It is a gleefully troublemaking record almost from its very start” “The ease with which they bring together more extreme forms of metal and heavy rock isn’t to be discounted. They do it in the correct way: by doing it. It’s not a ceremony. There isn’t a stop and then everybody quickly retunes and starts playing Morbid Angel riffs. It becomes part of the self-titled’s personality, part of the band’s personality…They make it make sense, even if the sens it’s making is of its own kind. And on a first Release, ‘its own kind of sense’ is all the more impressive.”
- The Obelisk
https://www.hellfire-magazin.de/slowpoke-slowpoke/?fbclid=IwAR2-Qoo2XznmjnK5DkrzRC0OhdTbHQSzK8_9fSn_vEIIqZsLtNA0WWA0Zd4
“Some bands in the field of Stoner Rock / Stoner Metal sound too uniform for some people. A band that can by no means be blamed for this comes from Canada…The band juggles stoner rock and sludge metal, heavy psych and hardcore punk,…And the best thing of all: The songs not only have funny names like “Stony Iommi” or “Sid the Cat”, they make a lot of damn fun — all of them! 9/10”
- Mathias Keibler, Hellfire Magazine
https://metal-digest.com/2021/07/17/slowpoke-slowpoke/?fbclid=IwAR2gj5Mf-6PJA_HXPthi5lgonxhoW_WZgmmYy9MRgsPhroCjww3a3NrsTwQ
“A rolling stone gathers no moss and considering the connotations associated with their name, Slowpoke have been moving relatively quick, gathering a reputation as a fantastic live band. Well, that was until the global pandemic shut everything down. So Slowpoke did what every good band does, they decided that this would be the best time to record their self-titled debut album.
That rolling stone may not have gathered any moss, but what it has done is run over everything in its path collecting little bits of genres from heavy metal, through stoner and doom with a helping of fuzz and psychedelia. Naturally, this means that this Canadian three piece have delivered something very interesting. ‘Slowpoke’ is an album which rattles the core of your torso, but it manages to do this without concentrating on nothing but fuzz, this album has melody in heaps with enough chorus hooks to have the listener engrossed for hours with enough balls to appeal to fans of everything from Melvins, through Clutch and Queens of the Stone Age.”
- Adam McCann, Metal Digest
https://www.metalepidemic.com/slowpoke-slowpoke/?fbclid=IwAR1ouZ8h0ZkYHdqySbgauNV_vBHGiBZNJEx0B-z3Mv6PZw9zey3m4_ScLjI
“It takes balls to open your debut album with a nine and a half minute, mostly instrumental track. Stony Iommi shows that Canadian threesome Slowpoke have them in abundance… They have an impressive array of styles in their arsenal which they can flip between at a moment’s notice. Ben, in particular, being able to seamlessly switch from a clean rock style to a guttural bark. This means that despite there only being seven tracks on the album, they manage to cover include everything from Southern-fried rockers (Windtalker) to sludgy doom (Sanctuary, Miami Camo) and the raucous three-minute blast of Slumlord”
- The Metal Epidemic Blog
https://stonerking1.blogspot.com/2021/08/slowpoke-slowpoke-review.html?fbclid=IwAR3vfVIXOTDTBkAeELv7y4VQYyzAVP9ZpQeyooPWm872M91IKrYRnU8UgTw
“We at Desert Psychlist are always up for something that is a little off-kilter and left of field so when we were introduced to Canadian outfit Slowpoke it was a match made in heaven. Slowpoke…are not what you would describe as your basic rock'n'roll band, they are a band who play all the right notes but not always in the order you might expect, it is a trait that makes their self-titled debut "Slowpoke" not just a great listen but an essential one.”
- Frazer Jones, Stoner King
http://www.ahasverus.fr/blog/slowpoke-canada-self-titled-2021.html?fbclid=IwAR0WbO-hxzbc6_HlChbnIM1LAhQtyKC9ONoQtVcNSI-loeFvx3HA8mATHL4
“Slowpoke surfs according to his moods on the currents of rock. It presents epic, progressive and psychedelic passages then moves on to a more instinctive writing…a somewhat unclassifiable album”
- Ahasverus
https://outlawsofthesun.blogspot.com/2021/08/slowpoke-st-album-review.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR3WOAmUiF6qTtteZZihKPPjkt-yqjDTpfM2XvrtM0VdeqUbfWAzyB-B3Go
“Slowpoke carry on creating their own blend of Punk fuelled Sludge/Stoner Metal with interesting ideas contained on all of the songs.” - Steve Howe Outlaws of the Sun Blog
https://time-for-metal.eu/releases/slowpoke-slowpoke/?fbclid=IwAR3bVCTr4vqJ76nBtAZo71E_01SFDgZfXL1gOu_wBC91o4zQYsKC42RZ5XY
https://www.paranoid.si/novice/3-8-2021-kanadani-slowpoke-predstavljajo-nov-single-slumlord?fbclid=IwAR2zLTof3WOjOYxPfxx-yY7J-KmZb_8pfnDhl-vjqVQiZ84cLK1O1GC39wI
https://www.metalnopapel.com/post/a-banda-canadense-de-stoner---doom-act-slowpoke-lan%C3%A7a-lp-de-estreia?fbclid=IwAR26hkWaVI53bK796HTQvSzuN3rRrBMeXhwy8c1XkyQ45ho1mVGY6y-fwO0
Slowpoke Single - Windtalker
https://metalshockfinland.com/2021/08/08/canadian-slowpoke-release-new-single-windtalker/?fbclid=IwAR2gj5Mf-6PJA_HXPthi5lgonxhoW_WZgmmYy9MRgsPhroCjww3a3NrsTwQ
https://www.metalorgie.com/news/156890_Slowpoke-stoner-Canada-a-mis-en-ligne-Windtalker-ici?fbclid=IwAR06MhsptZ15k5yTSypk2cqcvorDlqNPL6p0mTnBg61ocFKlFQNAaBkGTns
Slowpoke Single - Slumlord
https://outlawsofthesun.blogspot.com/2021/08/canadian-stonerdoom-act-slowpoke.html?fbclid=IwAR2CEcUvYt4_8ql6KDySs_gINU9Uk3NubjxOYTx-MR16qTroON8B_ToVRaA
Slowpoke Single - Sid The Cat
http://permafrost.today/2021/08/07/slowpoke-drawing-from-a-wide-range-of-inspiration-including-bands/?fbclid=IwAR0WbO-hxzbc6_HlChbnIM1LAhQtyKC9ONoQtVcNSI-loeFvx3HA8mATHL4
https://obliveon.de/slowpoke-sid-the-cat-ein-psychodelic-doom-mix/?fbclid=IwAR1iA8veEdVHz2u0L5jWpEsMDdJrJsDb5V3KMN2eDuxL99yg4B2IiXqAixc
Slowpoke Teaser
https://doomed-nation.com/canadian-stoner-doom-metal-act-slowpoke-announce-self-titled-debut-album-and-release-album-teaser/?fbclid=IwAR0xoVK7B4YzgUP-3f7VYKiFiRaAfRUChA7eRpOdjYhFtOytHpL8m13ffM4
Slowpoke LP Announcement
https://www.madaboutrock.co.uk/2021/07/canadian-stonerdoom-act-slowpoke.html?fbclid=IwAR25abCj6ID8Qr1QdOwyzV7njm82K03oEuZ4POhKb6H2uRcnAoZxtMAj1jo
https://metalshockfinland.com/2021/07/14/canadian-slowpoke-announce-debut-lp-release-album-teaser/?fbclid=IwAR1gkgUyHMw--sQYk0Lm6dBG-Zo8oncd3RyNApQHIWFIQ8wdol3eT_0JCus
Slowpoke Chart info
Sid The Cat #81 on Tinnitist’s Weekend Mixtape
https://tinnitist.com/2021/07/16/weekend-mixtape-side-5-196-songs-for-those-who-think-too-much-is-never-enough/?fbclid=IwAR0xoVK7B4YzgUP-3f7VYKiFiRaAfRUChA7eRpOdjYhFtOytHpL8m13ffM4
Slumlord #83 on Tinnitist’s Weekend Mixtape
https://tinnitist.com/2021/07/30/weekend-mixtape-side-5-162-songs-that-will-stick-to-your-ribs/?fbclid=IwAR06MhsptZ15k5yTSypk2cqcvorDlqNPL6p0mTnBg61ocFKlFQNAaBkGTns
Windtalker on GBHBL’s Single Slam
https://www.gbhbl.com/single-slam-underoath-immortalizer-dying-wish-ben-blutzukker-barrelhouse-first-fragment-slowpoke-wormwitch-gama-bomb-and-grand-cadaver/?fbclid=IwAR1kHu6el6LB1R0Iupd9S3FH2o4HuNxF0I0wc3IbiswhoJQ4GPhRdFtPsc4
2020 NEWS
September 3rd 2020
- New performance Stream & Interview -
Benedict Drinks played a live set and was interviewed by Jesse Read in episode #36 of Dropout Entertainment’s online streaming series ‘Quarantine songs’. Ben’s part of the episode starts at 1:37:00.
Video link to episode #36 of ‘Quarantine songs’
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2560204704290630&extid=ZPxdkRDNCz3gWXRi
Benedict Drinks Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benedictdrinks/
Dropout Entertainment:
https://dropoutentertainment.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/DropoutEntertainment
July 30, 2020
- New collaboration -
‘Riot’ by ‘Adventure Team Assemble!’ Ben Featured as the lyricist vocalist and arranger on this modern metal core banger. The collaboration also ended up on Heavy NFLD’s Compilation album ‘Burn the Leeches’
Youtube Link to ‘Riot!’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbmV1gt-Rpc
Youtube link to ‘Burn the Leeches':
https://heavynfld.bandcamp.com/album/burn-the-leeches