"I Didn’t Want To Fake It": Why Ben Watt Retired

UK DJ-songwriter Ben Watt recently told theMusic's Danielle O'Donohue that there are some thing he isn't going to miss with his DJ career on hold. "I've actually always been a bit of a morning person. I've tended to buck the trend of rock'n'roll," Watt says. "And it did change my time patterns for a while. I remember coming home from one night out just as the girls were going off to school. And they couldn't understand what the hell was going on – Dad coming up the garden path with a bag of records."

Since putting Everything But The Girl on hiatus at the start of the new millennium, Watt had been concentrating on his dance label Buzzin' Fly and his DJ career. But recently Watt has been looking around for the next challenge.

"I feel like I need a break from all of that. I felt like I was soft-pedalling a bit, lacking the firepower I once had. I didn't want to fake it. Also I instinctively had something bubbling up inside of me that wanted to get back to words and songs. It was just timing. I may well come roaring back as some awful veteran DJ at some point," Watt says with a wry laugh.

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