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Moses

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Can't seem to get it downloaded but its streamable: CRACKING live snippet from our recent ARRAN Folk festival 2009 gig (Thursday): HERE
And the Friday gig: HERE
Moses are the indie folk band that could. Their debut single No-ones home was playlisted by BBC radio 2, the parent album The Swimming Zoo was voted into 6musics albums of the year and their legendary live shows (in turn heart stoppingly beautiful, full-on up lifting and vaguely filthy) won them tours with Sam Brown, Shane MacGowan, Martin Stephenson and many more and have seen them winning over crowds from Glastonbury festival to an Amsterdam brothel.
Based around the catchy, beautiful songs (So good I wish Id written them Glasswerks.co.uk - each one sounding like a lost classic Drowned in sound.com) and contrasting but complementary voices of Hartlepool born brothers Paul & David Mosley the band enhance the guitar based songs with fiddle, piano, banjo, flute, accordion, euphonium, clarinetallsorts plus loads of very gorgeous harmonies.
Moses 2 full length albums & various ep's on tiny High Barn records have been described thus; 'a folk mini masterpiece that raids the school music room' (NME) and 'such Beautiful arrangements, quite the musicians' (lovely Canadian genius Jane Siberry) and 'given a sunny summers day this will totally fit the bill ****' (Q magazine) and 'moses...Moses...MOSES!' (Shane MacGowan). They are currently writing 4 new albums (actually true) and gig all the time. For free exclusive songs, latest dates and general fun the website is here: mosesband.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/01/2006
Band Website: www.mosesband.com
Band Members: Paul & David Mosley:
write the songs. Paul's voice is honeyed and slinky, Dave's is bluesy and gravelly. They harmonise in a special way.
Dave plays the guitar and bass and sings, Paul plays the piano, clarinet, melodica, euphonium and sings.
Colin Smith:
plays the guitar, bass, flute, lap steel and most everything else as well as singing and being the studio brains behind the Moses recording sessions.
Gav Fawcett:
plays the drums and percussion, holding back his natural talent for playing louder, faster, harder than anybody else in the world to shake his shakey eggs.
Katy Dent:
plays the violin and can improvise like nobodies business.
Harriet Davidson:
plays the Cello and has the most perfect tone we ever heard.
Sophie Traves:
Sings songs with a beautiful voice like no-one else we can think of and makes up harmonies that are beyond the mind of mortal man.
Influences: The Beatles, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee jones, Kristin Hersh, Tanya Donelly, Billy Bragg, Nina Simone, Robyn Hitchcock, Kate Bush, Jane Siberry, Devendra Banhart, The Clash, Arlo Gutrhrie, The Smiths, Pulp, Belle & Sebastian, Harry Nilsson, The Pogues
Sounds Like: Belle & Sebastian, Nick Drake, The Beatles, Rufus Wainwright, Kathryn Williams, Devendra Banhart, The Beautiful South, KT Tunstall, Kings of Convenience, The Magic Numbers, Cat Power, Kristin Hersh, Tanya Donelly, Andrew Bird, Ben Kweller,Van Morrison, Kirsty MacColl, Ray Lamontagne, Vic Chesnutt, Bonnie 'prince' Billy, Billy Bragg, Nizlopi, Neko Case, REM, Adem, Hawksley Workman, Martha Wainwright,Nanci Griffith, Suzanne Vega, Ron Sexsmith, The New Pornographers, Espers, Beck, 10,000 maniacs, Natalie Merchant, Supergrass, Aimee Mann, Aidan Smith, Badly drawn boy, Sufjan Stevens, Laura Veirs, Iron and wine,Simon & Garfunkel, Tim Buckley, Victoria Williams, The Pogues, Shane MacGowan, The Hidden Cameras, King Creosote, James Yorkston, Elliott Smith, Mistys Big Adventure, Mazzy star, Eels, Antony & the Johnsons, Ed Harcourt, Beth Orton
Record Label: Yolk/High Barn
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

APRIL : lets do a gig

Me & Dave are doing a MOSES gig - hoping the others will make it too - Saturday 26th April Cotherstone Village Hall, Moor Road Cotherstone, Barnard Castle DL12 9QU 07732 571 416 . ..>  ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:45:00 GMT

HOMESPUN TOUR - CANCELLED

Sadly we have just heard that the Homepsun tour has been cancelled, Sam is not well, what a shame. Hopefully if they reschedule they will invite us back too, we'll keep you informed. Still, gives us m...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:47:00 GMT

That was good, lets do some more....

Ahoy Top festive fun there then with Essex & Hartlepool Christmas Specials proving to be absolute blinding gigs. Essex was the fullest line up we've seen in an age with only newly parented Ka...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:28:00 GMT

On tour in January

We're as suprised as you are. We're off on tour in January with Dave Rotheray (Beautiful South) and Sam Brown (our bezzy mate) otherwise known as HOMESPUN. It will just be me & Dave cos ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:20:00 GMT

and in other news....

From the mosesband website...     2006-10-15   ***NEWS***NEWS***NEWS***NEWS***OCTOBER 2006Bestival was great! We where on about 6 so people where still sober enough to listen but d...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:46:00 GMT

Those Watery Rats, London...

Gig shmig - all good, very hot, new songs went down well and sounded nice-icles. All overshadowed by Katy's announcement that she is pregnant!Just a great, great thing, hurrah all round. Oh yes we san...
Posted by on Thu, 04 May 2006 04:38:00 GMT

Rats & Wells..

Q:Are we not men A:We are Moses. And some of us are women. And one is a gay.  We have been reviewed most favourably by this man here: http://www.holytoilet.com/blam/blam_may2006.asp  Kudos t...
Posted by on Mon, 01 May 2006 09:52:00 GMT

Should we tell people...

We've put new songs up. 1 from each album. LJ asked us to so we did. Hope you like them - those of you who know us well, sorry there's nothing new up there we'll change them again soon and hopefully t...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:19:00 GMT

Welcome!

Ahoy hoy Moses acolytes! We have embraced the noughties and gone for a myspace account - please tell all your friends to tell all their friends... The free  songs you can hear on this page are fr...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:07:00 GMT