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Allan Mooney

About Me

Allan Mooney is a 23-year-old non-performing songwriter from Glasgow in Scotland. He started writing songs at the age of 14 and to date has written lyrics and/or music to over 200 songs.At the end of the 1990's Allan teamed up with Swedish songwriter Jimmy Granstrom, and in 2001 Allan and Jimmy teamed up with Welsh based Lyricist and Playwright Bob Gould. In 2002 Allan, Jimmy and Bob won a UK songwriting competition with the lyric 'I Don't Want To Cry Anymore'.In 2003 they teamed up with Welsh based singer/songwriter Ben Messenger, this partnership resulted in the release of two CD albums 'Rewind' (2004) spawned the songs 'Drive', which would go on to be a big Soundclick hit, the title track 'rewind', the beautiful 'You're The One' and 'A Day In The Life Of Someone Else', which was a finalist in the 2004 UK Songwriting Competition.The trio returned in 2005 with the follow up 'Jaded' a more darker album than the one it precedes but an overall more mature and reflective record. Allan states the album caught him in a 'particularly chaotic part of my life, I had relationship problems, job problems and that's all come out in the songs'. The album packs a punch with songs like the title track 'Jaded' 'lay It All Down' 'Cold Wind Blowing' and 'Glory Days' which Allan says is a 'dedication to distant friends'Allan has also had songs recorded by Jordan Puleston. The tracks 'I Don't Want To Cry Anymore' and 'This One's For You' appeared on Jordan's 2005 album 'Crossing Borders'.Allan is currently working with Bob, Ben & Jimmy on the follow up to 2005's 'Jaded' album as well as working on a new project entitled 'Cyborg Citizen Crimes' Now playing: Allan Mooney

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Member Since: 10/11/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/allanmooneymusic
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TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Allan
Birthday: 14th April
Birthplace: Greenock, Scotland
Current Location: Greenock, Scotland
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5ft 11
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Scottish
The Shoes You Wore Today: Traniers
Your Weakness: don't have any - im a strong man dammit!
Your Fears: Water
Your Perfect Pizza: Just Cheese
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Step up the promo work for my music (the boring bit!)
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: lol
Thoughts First Waking Up: not the morning already!
Your Best Physical Feature: been told my eyes
Your Bedtime: when i like
Your Most Missed Memory: lots of crazy nights at the Dam!
Pepsi or Coke: Pepsi
MacDonalds or Burger King: neither
Single or Group Dates: single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: neither
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: no
Do you Swear: f**k yeah
Do you Sing: i try
Do you Shower Daily: yes
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: no
Do you want to get Married: already am
Do you belive in yourself: yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: no
Do you think you are Attractive: dunno
Are you a Health Freak: noooo
Do you get along with your Parents: yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes - exepct when it's like 2am and it's just keeping me awake!
Do you play an Instrument: yes
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: no
In the past month have you Smoked: no
In the past month have you been on Drugs: no
In the past month have you gone on a Date: no
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: no
In the past month have you been on Stage: no
In the past month have you been Dumped: not that i'm aware of
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: no
Ever been called a Tease: no
Ever been Beaten up: no
Ever Shoplifted: no
How do you want to Die: not given it a thought
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: i AM grown up (stop sniggering!)
What country would you most like to Visit: USA
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: don't matter
Favourite Hair Color: don't matter
Short or Long Hair: long
Height: don't matter
Weight: don't matter
Best Clothing Style: dont matter
Number of Drugs I have taken: 0
Number of CDs I own: about 300
Number of Piercings: 0
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of things in my Past I Regret: there's a few, stuff i wish i'd done, people i've hurt

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Influences: Influences include: Bon Jovi, Queen, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Matchbox 20, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Stevie Wonder, Duran Duran, Meatloaf, Jim Steinman, Greenday, The Offspring, George Michael, Manic Street Preachers, The Who, Nickelback, Elvis Costello, Spin Doctors, U2, Pulp, Stereophonics, Velvet Revolver, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Andy Williams, Jamiroquai, Tracey Chapman, Radiohead, The Rat Pack, Bruce Springsteen, The Clash, Ocean Colour Scene, Rage Against The Machine
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New Song

Hello All First new song of 2008 has been released to soundclick (and also here!) called 'Everybody's Broken' - written by myself, Bob Gould and LMK..please check it out if you're interested, it's als...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:54:00 GMT

New Music Player

Hi All   As you may have noticed the sound player has had a bit of an update, this allows me to share more songs with you and also (hopefully) at a better quality that my previous player. If you ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:31:00 GMT

It’s (Almost) Christmas Time

and that scares the life out of me! 'Cause as usual i still havent bought anyone any prezzies and i know i'll be running round the shops on Christmas Eve wrestling with my fellow shoppers for the last...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:01:00 GMT

Back to work again

After sunning myself in the (swealtering) heat of Spain for the last week, i'm back to Scotland where the weather is considerably cooler, but in a refreshing rather than "s**t it's freezing" kind of w...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:07:00 GMT

Update

Hi All! August is nearly over - can't quite believe it!  Just a quick update as not a lot has been happening. Bob's premier of My Lands Shore was a roaring success - after many mnoths of stress (...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:01:00 GMT

New Music

Hi All Some New music has been updated to the site, a new song called 'Rise' written by myself, Bob Gould & LMK. Please check it out and i hope you like it! The second is a dancy-instrumental -thi...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:11:00 GMT

Update

Been quiet on the music front lately, Ben and Bob are currently working on different things, as for me i'm having a bit of a break at the moment, lyrically i don't have very much to say right now and ...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 08:26:00 GMT

New Songs

Ben Messenger, Bob Gould & myself went into the studio yesterday and worked very hard all day to record 3 new songs which will go towards making the follow up to Ben's 2005 album 'Jaded' The recor...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:30:00 GMT

Website Closure

Hi All Just a quick note to let you all know that the website www.allanmooney.com will shortly be closing. All future updates, news and new music will now only be available on this page, so bookmark w...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:50:00 GMT

Randon Blog News Type Of Stuff

Guys, Just a quick update to let you know there's a new song been added today, called 'As Long As You Believe' - written by myself, Bob Gould and LMK. It's one that was originally written a long time ...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:06:00 GMT