HUGE NEWS DAY!!!
Memoir announcement! New video! Fun!
Hi, it’s Ione. I am jumping for joy that the time has come to reveal the cover of my upcoming memoir, “Say Everything”, which will be published by Gallery Books Spring 2025. Can’t wait for you to get to know me more and hear the stories I’ve been waiting my whole life to share. Now available for pre-order from https://bit.ly/4cz9ECv
About The Book
Unfiltered and uncensored, actress Ione Skye’s memoir is a wild ride of Hollywood thrills, confessions, and desire, as well as a deeply meditative and lyrical reflections of a messy, sexy, unapologetically unconventional life.
In 1987, sixteen-year-old Ione Skye landed the breakout role of Diane Court, the dream girl who inspires John Cusack’s iconic boombox serenade in the hit Cameron Crowe film, Say Anything. While Skye seemed perfectly typecast as an aloof valedictorian, her reality was much messier.
The love child of a magnetic ’60s It Girl and the folk-singing legend Donovan, Skye chased her absent father’s approval throughout her life. Wounded by his rejection, she sought warmth through infatuations and affairs with the brightest lights in her path—Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, Matthew Perry, John Cusack, and Robert Downey, Jr., as well as ’90s “bad girls” like Jenny Shimizu, Ingrid Casares, and Alice Temple. On the heels of a toxic teen relationship with the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis, Skye leapt into wedded bliss with Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz. But marriage was not the magical hall pass to adulthood Skye had imagined, and the fairy tale ended in heartbreak.
A decade of sex, film, art, babies, and adventure later, Skye will reconcile with her father and connect with a fellow seeker, the Australian musician Ben Lee. But when Lee’s world of gurus and cults threatens to subsume the couple, Skye must risk losing her soulmate to define, on her own terms, what it means to be a lover, partner, and parent.
Set against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of Topanga Canyon sunsets, lesbian supermodel cliques, Indian ashrams, rock royalty compounds, and the sets of classic late-century films like River’s Edge, Gas Food Lodging, and Wayne’s World, Say Everything is a vulnerable and cinematic account of a Gen X icon’s evolution to self-acceptance, and a celebration of living and loving out loud.
PRE-ORDER NOW! https://bit.ly/4cz9ECv
Ben also has a fun announcement today of his new single “So Damn Hard (to be So Damn Good) with a 360° video directed by genius Byron Spencer. Here Ben explains how to watch the video…
And HERE’S THE LINK TO WATCH THE VIDEO CLICK HERE!
And here is the Spotify to hear the song
These songs are all from his upcoming album “This One’s for the Old Headz” out late September, but you can pre-order vinyl now RIGHT HERE
Finally, Ben is announcing another HUGE run of Australian shows, tix available now from https://www.ben-lee.com/tour-dates
29 June - The Concourse Lounge, Chatswood QLD
04 July - Redland Performing Arts Centre, QLD
05 July - Star Court Theatre, Lismore NSW
06 July - Jetty Memorial Theatre, Coffs Harbour NSW
07 July - Hello Sailor, Port Macquarie, NSW
02 Aug - Pacific Palms Rec Club, Elizabeth Beach NSW
03 Aug - Dungowan Brewery, Dungowan NSW
04 Aug - Welders Dog Brewery, Armidale NSW
06 Aug - Sofar Sounds, St Kilda VIC
07 Aug - Piano Bar, Ballarat VIC
08 Aug - Piano Bar, Bendigo VID
09 Aug - Queenscliff Town Hall, Queenscliff VIC
10 Aug - Cowes Cultural Centre, Philip Island VIC
14 Aug - Sofar Sounds, Mapleton QLD
15 Aug - Bone Idol Bar, Toowoomba QLD
16 Aug - SunPAC, Sunnybank QLD
17 Aug - Mo’s Desert Clubhouse
18 Aug - Sofar Sounds, South Brisbane QLD
22 Aug - Warners Bay Theatre, Warners Bay NSW
29 Aug - Sofar Sounds, Martin Place NSW
06 Sep - Trinity Sessions, Adelaide SA
07 Sep - Big Easy Radio, Aldinga SA
13 Sep - Mount Gnomon Farm, Penguin TAS
14 Sep - Du Cane, Launceston TAS
15 Sep - Longley International Hotel, Longley TAS
27 Sep - The Victoria, Bathurst NSW
28 Sep - Riverside Theatre - Lennox Theatre, Parramatta NSW
11 Oct - Avoca Beach Theatre, Avoca Beach NSW
26 Oct - Bondi Pavilion Theatre, Bondi NSW