Ben.Harper is an Australian who grew up in the Adelaide Hills and has not yet fully adjusted to human society, despite relocating to Melbourne and then, after a murky financial misadventure, to London.

His public appearances have been rare, seldom venturing out of his bunker in East London, where he spends his time evading creditors and nursing his obscurity, mistaking it for genius. Over the past twenty years he has succumbed to pressure on a handful of occasions to present some of his music or artwork to the public in a small gallery or bar.