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Ceilí Moss

Acoustic raw and uncompromising folk-rock

About Me

CEILÍ MOSS is an acoustic folk-rock band from Namur, in the South of Belgium. We like to define ourselves as acoustic folk-rock with a Celtic-Pan-European edge that is not afraid of coloring a bit outside of the lines... Someone once wrote about us: "they are not as punk as The Pogues, but they have a bit of that attitude, and it gives them an edge many folk groups lack."
In our early years, you could rightly say that the Celtic, and more precisely Irish, influence was more than preeminent, but we have built our own distinctive sound, a jolly stew of Celtic, but also of Flemish, Scandinavian, Balkanic, Mitteleuropa, Klezmer, blues, medieval, singer-songwriter, ska or chanson sounds.
We play an approximately even mix of our own tunes, sung in English, French or Dutch, and of traditionals, sometimes played the orthodox way, sometimes completely rearranged.
To locate us on the map, let's say the most frequently heard comparisons include The Pogues, Ambrozijn, Clannad, Alan Stivell, Les Ogres de Barback, Jaune Toujours, Shantalla and Tri Yann.

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Member Since: 11/29/2006
Band Website: ceilimoss.be
Band Members: CEILÍ MOSS is Mathieu Collard (fiddle), Benjamin Delforge (accordion, tin whistle, percussions), Mike Goffioul (keyboard), Laurent Leemans (guitar, vocals, percussion), Jérémy Pinera (drums, percussions) and Yves Van Elst (transverse flute, bagpipe, backing vocals).
Influences: The Pogues, The Chieftains, The Waterboys, Shantalla, Ambrozijn, Kadril, Clannad, Tri Yann, Alan Stivell, Ewan MacColl, Johnny Cash, Hedningarna ...
Sounds Like: The Pogues, The Waterboys, Ambrozijn, Kadril
Type of Label: None

My Blog

A bit of chaos in the agenda

It's been a bit chaotic on the gigs front these last few weeks: concerts cancelled, others announced as booked but eventually cancelled or postponed, others confirmed...   We want to apologize fo...
Posted by Ceilí Moss on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:57:00 PST

Brussels Celtic Trad Festival annulé / afgelast

Faute de financement, le festival Brussels Celtic Trad, prévu le 17 mai, a été reporté à une date indéterminée... Le hasard ne faisant pas toujours mal les choses, un concert à Bruxelles en mai nous t...
Posted by Ceilí Moss on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:43:00 PST

Nouvelle interview!

Une interview de Laurent par Benoit Grelaud du blog Dates de Concerts et Spectacles vient d'être publiée. Cliquez ici pour la découvrir....
Posted by Ceilí Moss on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:14:00 PST

a whole bunch of new pictures

We have added a whole bunch of new pictures to this page: flyers of some coming concerts, and some live pics from past days (sigh)... The rest has been reorganised to give more clarity to the ensemble...
Posted by Ceilí Moss on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:03:00 PST

2 new old songs added

I've added 2 songs from our older recordings, "ship of fools" from the 2003 "glad to find you well", and one of my old loves: "back in the house", from our 2001 "be there & be drunk!".
Posted by Ceilí Moss on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:42:00 PST

CM wins weekly contest on TunA The Day

Wow! I never would have believed it, but with 37% of the votes, we got elected "tune of the week" by TunA the Day against the tough opponents Carmelite (Do check them out, they're amazing! And I would...
Posted by Ceilí Moss on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:51:00 PST

CM on TunaTheDay on december 7.

TunaTheDay (http://www.tunatheday.com/go/catchoftheday) is the work of one crazy Brit (em, aren't they all? ;)) who puts good and unkown bands under his spotlight, one track per day. TunA the Day is ...
Posted by Ceilí Moss on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:36:00 PST

Sophie leaves the band

Sophie has decided to leave the band. Recurring health problems, ovrflowing agendas, growing implication in the Koudougou project and other things have brought her motivation low, so she thought bette...
Posted by Ceilí Moss on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:16:00 PST

New videos

Hi all, I have embedded two videos from the Brussels gig on june 2 directly in the page for easier viewing. Enjoy!
Posted by Ceilí Moss on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:31:00 PST

Video added!

Ludivine, Mathieu's wife has recorded some excerpts from our june 2, 2007 concert in Woluwe. Here's one: Rodney's glory...
Posted by Ceilí Moss on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:19:00 PST