BEN SANDS: Guestbook

Davie Moloney

January 22, 2008

Best Wishes for 2008 to you and your nearest & dearest.

SCOTTS IN LONDON

January 20, 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

January 19, 2008

good to be on the web Ben congratulations with the HUG
www.davidmuldrew.com

Alex L Liggins

January 8, 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

January 7, 2008

Really enjoyed your spot on Shannonside radio, 6th January with Charlie, good music, great craic. All the best.

Cath Mason

January 3, 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

January 1, 2008

awsome... love the we all need a hug song!! WERE CAN I BUY IT? BEST WISHES FOR 2008

Frankie Bannachan

December 31, 2007

1 word - Legend!!

iviewolfe

December 31, 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

December 30, 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

December 30, 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

December 29, 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

December 27, 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

December 9, 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

December 9, 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

December 3, 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

December 2, 2007

glad to hear you are cleaning up it couldn't happen to a better man! with best wishes JOHN AND ANGELA CONWAY

November 29, 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)

November 26, 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

November 25, 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

November 24, 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

November 24, 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

November 24, 2007

CONGRATS ON THE HUG SONG HEARD YOU ON JOHN TOAL SHOW THIS MORNING WELL DONE
CHEERS G MAC

November 24, 2007

love the song hug =]

George and Noreen Dinsmore

November 24, 2007

Congrats and well done!! The songs great, success well deserved!!

clodagh linden

November 22, 2007

hi uncle..!! :-)

congrats with 'the hug' and you sounded very well on 5fm today

xx

M. Edenite

November 11, 2007

Wow!!! I heard the Lincoln Imp is smiling, must have heard the new Imperial Leather advert!

Orla

November 10, 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

November 9, 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

November 5, 2007

Congrats on ur Imperial Leather ad. Well done mate! Keep up the good work

Ry

November 5, 2007

Congrats daddio xoxoxox so proud!!

Cordula

November 4, 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

November 4, 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

November 4, 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

November 4, 2007

Wonderful to hear your'Hug'sound track on the new Cussons advert 'Congratulations Ben' a prize richly deserved.

Heike

October 25, 2007

Hi Ben!
Thanks for the great concert in Jena!
Heike

Mike Kearney

October 9, 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

October 5, 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

September 19, 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

September 13, 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

August 25, 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

August 24, 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

August 14, 2007

Greetings from Oakridge. Hope everything is going to plan. Bump into each other soon. Clemintine Mc Climmond

Silvana

July 27, 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

June 28, 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

June 27, 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

June 27, 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

June 26, 2007

Hey dad just a wee message to say so proud of u :) love you loads xoxoxo Ry

David Powles

June 26, 2007

What an honour for the Archbishop!
See you soon
Dave

Denis Mc Laughlin

June 26, 2007

Fair play to you Ben!! In meeting one of your greatest heroes.

all the Derry best....Denis

D. and E. Maschinger

June 25, 2007

Hope to see you again in the Braunschweig area!

Konni Schmidt

June 25, 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

June 25, 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

June 25, 2007

A great story and picture of you and Archbishop TUTU! It's good to still believe in heroes. I do !

June 22, 2007

Brilliant photo at the front page!

Regards the frog

June 2, 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

May 21, 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

May 20, 2007

Thank you for nice hours and listen your wounderful music.
See you again!

Acoustic Planet with Steve Clarke

May 7, 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

May 6, 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

April 29, 2007

Just to let folk know I really can spell Countries and did not copy from previous message, all the very best Ben

April 28, 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

April 26, 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

April 18, 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.

Marian and Brian

April 18, 2007

A brilliant Concert in Newry. The first part of the evening entertainment was given by family and friends a variety of music,song, verse and exceptional lambeg drumming. Followed by your goodself, in your own inimitable style with songs,foot tapping tunes and stories. Folk from many other contries as well as locals all enjoyed the evening. We have also heard that inexcess of £1700 was raised for Leukaemia Research Fund WELL DONE to everyone who organised and helped with the concert.

JOHN MORGAN

April 16, 2007

Thoroughly enjoyed the Concert in Newry. Very different from last year. You have a very telented family. I hope there is one next year.

Brendan K

April 15, 2007

Fantastic concert in Newry City Hall, Ben. Congratulations and thanks for a wonderful evening!
Brendan

Dara Sands

April 11, 2007

HI WAT UP!!!!!!!!!!!DARA TAKINLOVEYA DARA

Dara Sands

April 11, 2007

Hi BEN cool website. Lovein the pics. Miss u LOADS FROM DARA

Rosis daughter^^

April 2, 2007

Hey ben just wanna send you
greetings from germany....

best wishes
Elisabeth

PS: I hear your songs everday at work

Rose

March 31, 2007

Hi Ben... this Week is running... I hope you has further a good time here in germany! It was so good to see you the first time after ...
Give a big hug to yours...from me and mine Rose & Peter Balzer

Peter

March 17, 2007

Have a great St.Patrick's Day, Ben. I like your "refreshed" website. Hope to see you again soon.

Robbie McKörner

March 13, 2007

Hi Mr Sands,

lovely music, great homepage. I´m lookink forward to meet you on stage in Erlangen. Mac

Martha Gallogly

March 8, 2007

Hello Ben;
I got your email and it is always nice to chat to you. Would love to meet you some time and hear you sing.
Where can i catch you.

Nigel

March 5, 2007

You sound good Ben.
Nice website.
Keep doing it.
Nigel

Chris Lea

February 12, 2007

I really like your new web page Ben. Maybe see you in Denmark !!

Lincoln Imp

January 23, 2007

Great to see you and Bars in Bingham recently. Looking forward to the next time you head this way. Ps Tim the tinker man is innocent!

Ian Kane

January 15, 2007

Ben
Sitting here at work in the north of Scotland - started thinking about Thailand and St Patrick's Ball and in particular the great time I had over that week long period with Tommy and your good self. Have a great New bYear. Let's hope our paths can cross again

Ian kane

Ingrid Seggewiß

January 1, 2007

Hi Ben,
the best wishes for 2007. It was nice to meet you and your wife in Dundalk last Thursday. Hope to see you sometime at a concert in Germany.

Best regards

Ingrid

Hans Jørgen Jensen

December 22, 2006

Hi Ben. It' a VERY nice website You have. I have listned to Your songs and tunes and I like very much what I hear. Maybe we'll meet on day, it would be great. all the best wishes from Denmark...

gillie banks

November 30, 2006

Hia Ben is this a new albumn you have out the HUG great love a hug how do you just capture the people feeling within all your songs just warm to it as its in my heart too.
Got my grandfathers handmade fiddle fixed but I'm struggling I'm best at being the singer I think the Scots suppressed the wummen to be just singers and I can maybe accept that just yer wee pal Gillie Banks Bute

Carol Emerich

November 14, 2006

Nice site, Ben! I like the changes. That photo of the mountains is stunning! You're looking well, I'm glad to say. I hope to see you sometime down the road. Come back to California! I hope our mutual friend Steve conveyed my greetings to you in July.

Anita Schmidt

November 7, 2006

A wonderful concert in Ketsch - come back soon! A.S.

September 24, 2006

You meet some weird and wonderful people Ben. Is that where you get your inspiration for your great songs or is their a secret source

Jenifer Rozak

September 19, 2006

So, Ben. I soll you nun in the end auch write. You know my English is not good. I thank you for the nice evening in Dessau and hope, we will see again. All the best wishes from Jenifer.

Jan Blümel

September 19, 2006

I'll never clean my guitar again as it sounds much better in your hands ;-))))among monkeys, eagles, elephants and pelikanes. the minute you walk in the room...we are better already

steffen rozak

September 19, 2006

Hallo Ben !
Ich habe mich echt gefreut dich kennen gelernt haben zu dürfen.ich hoffe das mann sich bald mal wieder sehen wird,bei katjas geburtstagssesion denke ich.ich kann es dich aber auch so fragen da du ja neben lotti sitzt .sei leib gerüsst aus dessau steffen

ketscha

September 19, 2006

you shouldn't allow all these strange people to leave messages in your guestbook ;-)they all pretend to sit on a couch with you...does this have a hidden meaning or do you all just have the same psychoanalyst?

chocolotte

September 19, 2006

Well,what can I say? You're sitting next to me on the couch so why should I write anything in your guestbook? The exchange rate for bananas and chocolate is 0:1.

Dessauer Fans

September 19, 2006

Hallo Ben
Wir hoffen, dir hat der Tag bei uns in Dessau gefallen.
Wir hatten viel Spass und bedanken uns für deinen Besuch.
Viele liebe Grüße von Steffen, Kerstin und Jenifer

Isobel

September 10, 2006

Hello Ben

This is Your oldest sister in law I love your web page.

The Grimm Sister

August 27, 2006

Hi Ben, great to see you on the web. I hope we meet us soon in September.

Rose

August 26, 2006

Dear Ben,
Your page is realy Well done - I saw the pictur and started to smil...all the best until we see us and give a hug to your whole family ... I wish I had a penny for every time I think of you all
Rose

Michaela

August 22, 2006

Dear Ben,
thanks for your music!!!!

Maureen Magee

August 16, 2006

Enjoyed the Sands Family concert in Castleblayney very much - keep up the good work!

Dagmar H

August 10, 2006

It was wonderful to meet you in Rostrevor and hear your concert with your Family - a true highlight of the wonderful Fiddlers Green Festival. We see you in County Down next year too, I hope - and maybe in Germany before then!

Pat McCann

August 10, 2006

Fantastic gig at Fiddlers Green! Well done to the whole family - and John Sheahan! What a great Festival - we'll be back for more next year.

Maggie H.

August 7, 2006

Thanks for a great concert on the Saturday of Fiddlers Green and for the friendship and warmth that flows round the festival!

Anja & Sean

July 5, 2006

Dear Ben,
your website ist wonderful. Hope to see you in Germany this year! All the best for you and your family, Anja

unapete

June 30, 2006

we have to lisen to some you music somtime