BEN SANDS: Guestbook
Pam Openshaw
13 May 2008
Thankyou,what a interesting
life you & your family have led & continue to do,i enjoyed reading it & look forward to reading more of yoou & your family. TC,,,Pam
René
18 April 2008
hi mr.sands,
cant wait for your gig in Darmstadt / Germany.
take care
René
martine
18 April 2008
you came to my school last year in co. armagh craigivon st.anthonys ps we write a song thanks for coming
15 April 2008
Hi Ben,
My husband's grandfather was
Ben Sands.Our daugher,Cecile,
the genealogist, has traced
the familly to Ireland. I don't think there is any connection tho as my husband
Walter Lee, cannot carry a
tune in a lead bucket. lol.Ket me know if you know
of anything. Ben lived in
New Albany Indiana,and my husband and I were born and bred across the Ohio river, in Louisville (pronounced loo uh vul)Kentucky. We live in the Ozark Mountains of
Arkansas now in a place called Prairie Grove. If you
are ever over here, give us a ring.
Good Luck in your music.
Honey (Sullivan) Sands
Noels
7 April 2008
Hi Ben. Finally I've had a look at your website and it's very impressive. Wow! you must be so fit for all those tour dates..I can't wait to listen to your songs when I'm back in civilization and broadband as we are only on dial-up here in the mountains! My very best wishes to you and your family and for a successful tour. Lukim yu wontok (see you later friend). Noels Famularo, Papua New Guinea.
2 April 2008
It’s pleasing that, you Marian and Brian, has been there(in Nerwry) like last year… every year… that’s good to hear
God bless you all
Marian and Brian
1 April 2008
Congratulations Ben on the 3rd wonderful concert in Newry at the weekend in aid of Leukaemia Research. Yourself, your family and friends gave us night to remember. All this of course would not have happened without all the hard work Barbara did in organising the whole event.Well done and thank you to everyone. Lincoln Imp, well you missed a treat, maybe next year?
lincoln imp
30 March 2008
Hi Ben
Sorry we couldn't all be with you at the concert yesterday evening. Hope it went well.
30 March 2008
Hi Ben & the whole family... today is a very sunnyday - Spring arriving Germany too - slowly but surely... I’m/we are so sorry; that we couldn’t enjoy, your concert in Newry yesterday night … Our thoughts are with you all and I’m sure it was a great success for the other “Sands family” and for Leukaemia Research
Give a hug to your nearest and dearest … Take care and are blessed.
All the best for your time in Germany.
issy fraser
30 March 2008
HI there Ben, been a fan of yours for a few years now,met at GLENFARG FOLK CLUB,over the moon to hear your beautiful music being recognised on TV.well done!"
Peter Kerlin
27 March 2008
Hi ben, just surfed by and wanted to tell you I'm definitely coming to your concert in Wernigerode. Can't wait to meet you all there again. Take care and have a great tour!
Tracey Russell
25 March 2008
Your music is so beautiful thankyou. I would like to bring my sick friend to see you and your family on May 9th in Staffs as I know that she will so enjoy the experience. I would love to know more details about the venue - tickets/prices etc. could you please help. Thankyou for your time.
Hermann Glaser-Baur
18 March 2008
The blood-pressure is rising.
We are looking forward to having you live at the 15th Yard Fest on September 13th 2008 at the Flax Mill in Derrylane/Dungiven.
Lea
14 March 2008
very nice song, thank you for sharing:-)
pat
9 March 2008
wow i like your songs,i remeber my grandpa sing like u go,he just thought of funny things & start singing,& making it up as he goes,somethings we would help god bless u & your work u do for the Lord,
Maria Bakonyi
9 March 2008
Hi Ben Sands,
I was saw your web site,and I was hearing your song, It was wonderful.
I was very happy, thanks.
God Bless You
Maria from Hungary
Neville Hymus
9 March 2008
A hug a day keeps everything at bay, it is the only way to live. Everyone should do it and like in one of Joe Cocker's songs PASS IT ON .
Tracy Denton
3 March 2008
I love the Hug song in the soap advert - brilliant song, great singer!
Hope to hear you "live" some day!
Tracy
diane bennett
14 February 2008
Love the song put to the advert
Maire Devlin
12 February 2008
Hi Ben
Looking forward to your concert in Newry City Hall on March 29. If it is half as good as last year I"ll be well satisfied!
See you then
Maire
Stiv
4 February 2008
Hi Ben.
Keep up the good music.....
http://www.utro45.t35.com
Hok Morris
4 February 2008
I don't understand why we don't hear your songs on the radio.
Anne Hassan
3 February 2008
What wonderful warm words of comfort are to be found in your music , where can I find a copy of the words of the 'HUG'.
Davie Moloney
22 January 2008
Best Wishes for 2008 to you and your nearest & dearest.
SCOTTS IN LONDON
20 January 2008
Congratulations Benny, with all those HUGS I feel better already. We love the ad and have had your cd playing on a loop. Keep up the volume!
davy muldrew
19 January 2008
good to be on the web Ben congratulations with the HUG
www.davidmuldrew.com
Alex L Liggins
8 January 2008
Just bought "Better Already" and it has not been switched off for the past four hours. What a first class album- definately the number 1 in my collection. Thanks Ben.
A&E
7 January 2008
Really enjoyed your spot on Shannonside radio, 6th January with Charlie, good music, great craic. All the best.
Cath Mason
3 January 2008
I love We all need a Hug. I am at work now listening to it on my IPod. I was born and raised in Scotland and now live in the States,makes me very homesick. I will be teaching this to my grand children.I make sure all my family have hugs every day. Thank you for this.
jo
1 January 2008
awsome... love the we all need a hug song!! WERE CAN I BUY IT? BEST WISHES FOR 2008
Frankie Bannachan
31 December 2007
1 word - Legend!!
iviewolfe
31 December 2007
Like many others i heard your ''hug'' song on tv for an ad, i love it, gonna join your email list if thats ok.
will be also looking for more of you online and elsewhere, happy new year Ben
Big Hugs :)
Iviewolfe
Jilly
30 December 2007
Ben I came across your web page by mistake and I AM SO GLAD I DID! your "Hug" song brought tears to my eyes and warmth in my heart. Thank you so much - I am now a fan ! Love all your music. Good luck and happiness for the future. Hugs Jilly
Jenny Flintoft
30 December 2007
Hi Ben! What beautiful, heartwarming lyrics are the words to "Hug" and what a different world it would be if everyone gave just one more hug every day. We've now framed the lyrics in our home, so hopefully any visitors we receive will be inspired to do just that! Hugs away!
Peter
29 December 2007
hi Ben,
sorry, but we heard your song through an Ad on TV and was moved by the lyrics that mean a lot to my wife and I at this time of year.
You have 2 more fans and we shall listen and enjoy your CD.
Keep up the good work and we wish you luck now and for the future.
Peter & Eve
anna mclaughlin
27 December 2007
Hi, I am your cpusin Mary's daughter, we were all up in Mcmahons in Rostrevor last night, listened to your new song and were delighted it's doing so well!!
Anna
Geoffrey Og Laverty
9 December 2007
I would like to thank you for coming to our music presentation at Loughgiel out of schools club. Congratulations on the hug song we all think it is great. I hope you come next year again.
Sian Richards
9 December 2007
Ben, Love your huggable advert, have sent a hug message to my daughter in Australia as a christmas wish and ordered your CD with the Hug song - great !!
Lincoln Imp
3 December 2007
Ben
What a wonderful ad for Imperial Leather. How clever they are to recongise real talent. I suppose no more dirty jokes! So proud to know you. Do keep the Hug going.
I even heard Terry Wogan quote your words from 'Hug'
Love from
The (Smiling) Lncoln Imp
angela.conway2@btinternet.com
2 December 2007
glad to hear you are cleaning up it couldn't happen to a better man! with best wishes JOHN AND ANGELA CONWAY
29 November 2007
Dear Ben and all of yours
The time of hugs (xmas time is starting) I saw just the advert too at www. and it brought a smil in my face... huggable snuggable also for my skin =-) all the best to you all
Noeleen Butler (Purdy)
26 November 2007
Loving the new advert! Heard it the other day and have been singing it ever since. I remember hearing my little neice singing it in the back of my dad's car, (Mickey Purdys car that is) and couldn't believe I was hearing it on the TV. Well done again, you put a big smile on my face.
Nodlag Neill
25 November 2007
Hi there Benedictamus Adoramus! What a wonderful success story. I saw you on UTV LIVE the other night and then heard you on BBC Radio Ulster yesterday. At last, good clean talent has been recognized. See you soon!
Susanne
24 November 2007
Hi Ben,
what a success ("HUG") for you. Your great ! Big Gratulations to you for this song, you and your wonderful homepage.
Susanne
Pamela Smith
24 November 2007
Thank Goodness for the Imperial Leather advert, otherwise I may never have heard this music. Just order my first cd and can't wait to hear the rest of your music. Fabulous!
GERALD PETER MCCARTHY
24 November 2007
CONGRATS ON THE HUG SONG HEARD YOU ON JOHN TOAL SHOW THIS MORNING WELL DONE
CHEERS G MAC
24 November 2007
love the song hug =]
George and Noreen Dinsmore
24 November 2007
Congrats and well done!! The songs great, success well deserved!!
clodagh linden
22 November 2007
hi uncle..!! :-)
congrats with 'the hug' and you sounded very well on 5fm today
xx
M. Edenite
11 November 2007
Wow!!! I heard the Lincoln Imp is smiling, must have heard the new Imperial Leather advert!
Orla
11 November 2007
Here i can't belive ur from were im from, i was watching the add and me and my friend went and were seaching the internet for this hug song fair play to ya have to say the song is class on the imperial leather advert. the best of luck Orla and Carla.
Melody
10 November 2007
So enjoy stopping in from time/time to check out your web site and listening to your music.Such great pleasure it brings me and even at times helps me get ideas for poems I might be working on at the time.
Davie Moloney
5 November 2007
Congrats on ur Imperial Leather ad. Well done mate! Keep up the good work
Ry
5 November 2007
Congrats daddio xoxoxox so proud!!
Cordula
5 November 2007
Wow!!! Aren't they smart, these soap people! Everybody'll want to buy the lovely foam now! May Your wonderful music bubble on and on and on...
By the way: When will we see, hear and hug You in our Rhein-Neckar-Region again?
Ruth Raspe
4 November 2007
Hi Ben,
i enjoyed it very much to meet you in Cologne.
I love your songs "Going To Morrow" + "Back On The Diet On Monday" Bye rr
Anne
4 November 2007
Dear Ben, you and "your" ad keeps me busy to creating/sending hugs.
I'm SO proud of/with you!
Bis bald ;->
Adam and Eve
4 November 2007
Wonderful to hear your'Hug'sound track on the new Cussons advert 'Congratulations Ben' a prize richly deserved.
Heike
25 October 2007
Hi Ben!
Thanks for the great concert in Jena!
Heike
Mike Kearney
9 October 2007
Hi Ben,
Just popped in to have a listen and I must say, I love your latest stuff...
Will email you later,
Cheers,
Mike
Kells
5 October 2007
Hiya Daddy,
fantastic news about the hug, have always been proud of you now I'm proud for you too. Love you loads K xox
Huge hugs from all in Leitrim
Hans Jørgen Jensen
20 September 2007
Hi Ben.
Hope all is well. I've just confirmed Your link on my website: http://www.mckenna.dk
I'm sorry it took so long. Your website is great, and Your songs too. I will look on it closer, when I'm back from job.
Keep up the good music.....
Kristen
14 September 2007
I saw you in concert whilst I was visiting in ireland at the belfast lyre conference(I play the fiddle and the lyre)and I enjoyed you sooooooo much I listen to your cd all of the time, I think thst your music is awesome!
Your fan,
Kristen
Janice
25 August 2007
A lengthy story... I hope you don't mind.
I wanted to tell you a sweet story about you, your music and what it meant to my father....and ultimately, what it meant to all of us.
My mother was in intensive care for 7 months, during which she was mostly comatose, on a ventilator. Unresponsive. Muscles contracted. Eyelids dried. It was with great sorrow we signed the Do Not Resusitate order last December. We were working at accepting the inevitable. She kept lingering. My dad would not give up. Suctioned her tubing every 15 minutes day and night. I couldn't even believe he could do that at his age. She's 80 yrs old. My father is 89. Yet, he insisted on sleeping at the hospital every night.. tending to every slight sign of life in my mom. His devotion could be the reason they called her recovery miraculous. She is home now, quite functional. To think none of us thought we'd never hear her voice again.
I was there a great deal of the time. We kept looking for CDs to play... something to make my mother respond. I had my laptop. The hospital system did not allow for access to myspace. Yet I could favorite-place the stand-alone players. I bought some religious CDs... Alan Jackson had a very good one, but I didn't want her to think she was at her own funeral. Then I played your music for my dad. He immediately loved it. He wanted me to write out the lyrics for 'Better Already'. He started singing that to my mother every day. Many times, his voice stayed strong while his eyes filled with tears. It seemed to be what she liked most. It was perfect.
So, you have played a significant role in our lives, whether you knew it or not. Thank you!
Mike Madigan
24 August 2007
Take Your Time..great song. So are your others, but that song has touched myself and my special friend(krl) very much!
All the best
Mike Madigan
www.thesharecroppers.net
Gerald Joseph
14 August 2007
Greetings from Oakridge. Hope everything is going to plan. Bump into each other soon. Clemintine Mc Climmond
Silvana
27 July 2007
Starting from today you got a brand new fan in Romania. Listerning your music makes me feek into a journey in a fairytale land.
Silvana
http:\theseea.blogspot.com
PHONSIE
28 June 2007
THE POOR ARCHBISHOP DOES NT KNOW WHAT HE IS LETTING HIMSELF IN FOR.THE NEXT THING NOEL DEVLIN WILL WANT TO HUG HIM,,,
Cordula
27 June 2007
Great!!! Congratulations! I'm an admirer of those hugging good people, too... The verse is a real heartbeat of love - may it hug its way around the world! Hug you, Ben!
And sunny greetings from Ketsch :o) Cordula
Karen
27 June 2007
Well that's just lovely Ben - I am delgithed for you. D'ye see now where huggin' gets ye - good on ye crittur!
Don't stop huggin.
Bugsanhisses from Germersheim
Ry
26 June 2007
Hey dad just a wee message to say so proud of u :) love you loads xoxoxo Ry
David Powles
26 June 2007
What an honour for the Archbishop!
See you soon
Dave
Denis Mc Laughlin
26 June 2007
Fair play to you Ben!! In meeting one of your greatest heroes.
all the Derry best....Denis
D. and E. Maschinger
26 June 2007
Hope to see you again in the Braunschweig area!
Konni Schmidt
26 June 2007
Congretulations Benny,
I also admire Desmond Tutu and his engagement for peace and justice. Its a great day for us all.
greetings
Konni
Bike for Peace and New Energies NGO
www.bikeforpeace.de
lincoln imp
26 June 2007
Ben
What an unforgettable experience it must have been to meet the incredible Desmond Tutu and what a memory for him to leave Ireland with the permanent gift of his hug in words.
Well done to everyone concerned
Cheryl
26 June 2007
A great story and picture of you and Archbishop TUTU! It's good to still believe in heroes. I do !
Mary
25 June 2007
Hi Ben,
Congratulations, great hug! great website, looking forward to browsing around,
I love all the photos too, can see so many resemblances - see you soon
Love
Mary
22 June 2007
Brilliant photo at the front page!
Regards the frog
2 June 2007
A VerySM ;-)to you all in and around Newry just I instaled a new kind of musikplayer on our PC so We can "HEAR your MUSIC" again All the best to you all.
Karin Mühlbeyer
21 May 2007
Dear Ben,
as lovers of Irish and Scottish folk music my husband and I thoroughly enjoyed your performance in Landau at Kreuz & Quer. Take care and all the best, Karin.
Julius from Landau
20 May 2007
Thank you for nice hours and listen your wounderful music.
See you again!
Acoustic Planet with Steve Clarke
7 May 2007
Looking forward to listening to your program and perhaps finding you in performance when we visit 'across the pond' next spring. I'll also be looking over here for some of the music from your featured artists so folks here can have a good listen!!
Elizabeth
6 May 2007
Ben I have been telling your stories to all my friends after hearing you in Downpatrick. I don't understand why we don't hear your songs on the radio. Some of them are very funny. I am looking forward to your gig at Fiddlers Green
Marian
29 April 2007
Just to let folk know I really can spell Countries and did not copy from previous message, all the very best Ben
28 April 2007
Right Marian… Folk from many other Countries enjoyed this evening… We - “was delighted” to be a part of these. It is good to hear that any £ come together for the Leukaemia Research Fund
drop by drop = an ocean
Richard Scoffom
27 April 2007
Hello Ben,
By chance I was listening to the BBC "Celtic Heartbeat" and your song "Wish I had a Penny" came on.
It was enjoyed by all on the dock at Stones Marina on Vancouver Island, Canada where my Boat and home is moored.
Simple, powerful and wonderful.
Thank you.
Arlene
18 April 2007
Hi Ben,
Thank you for the wonderful evening on Friday.
It was lovely to see and hear such talent. Did enjoy the lambeg drums in particular.
The whole night was amazing
and I was delighted to be there.
I have my ticket booked for next year.
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