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Back of the Moon

Back of the Moon

About Me

In November 2007 Back of the Moon played their final concert in the grand surroundings of the Kennedy Centre Washington DC. All members of Back of the Moon would like to thank everyone who has helped them over the years.

Findlay and Gillian have a new band called Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers. http://www.findlaynapier.com or http://www.myspace.com/findlaynapier

Ali is currently working with Old Blind Dogs. http://www.oldblinddogs.co.uk or www.myspace.com/oldblinddogs

Hamish is applying to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston. http://www.myspace.com/hamishnapier

Back of the Moon were a top Scottish folk band with both new and traditional tunes and songs cast in fresh modern sounding arrangements. Formed in 2000, the band rapidly gained a reputation for their dynamic live performances, touring annually throughout the UK, Canada, USA and eight different European Countries. Back of the Moon created their giant acoustic sound through a tightly woven frontline of Scottish border pipes and fiddle, an intimate pairing of low whistle and flute, the distinctive rhythmic force of their guitar/piano rhythm combo, at times augmented by bodhran and Cape Breton Stepdancing, and awesome three-part vocal harmonies in their Scottish songs - in which each unique singer took the lead. 2005 saw them win 'Best Folk Band' at the Scottish Trad Music Awards, having received "Best Up and Coming Act" at the awards back in 2003 and "Best Celtic Group" at Lorient Interceltic Festival 2003.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/18/2006
Band Website: backofthemoon.co.uk
Band Members: Gillian Frame (fiddle/vocals) Findlay Napier (guitar/vocals) Hamish Napier (piano/flute/whistle/vocals/Cape Breton Scottish Stepdancing) Ali Hutton (pipes/bodhran/whislte)
Influences: Liz Carroll, John Doyle, Gordon Duncan, Dick Gaughin, Brian Finnegan, Archie Fisher, Paul Brady, John Martin, Jim Hunter, Linda Thompson, John Prine, Wolfstone, Capercailie, Iron Horse, Old Blind Dogs, Flook, The Battlefield Band, Dr Andy Hunter, Dr Simon McKerrell, Karine Polwart, Frankie Gavin and Arty McGlynn, Anne Neilson, Archie McAllister, Solas, Lunasa, Led Zepplin.
Record Label: Footstompin Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

US Tour

We're now well into our first official US tour and having a great time. We've done three gigs so far, the last was at the beautiful Blackstone River Theatre in Cumberland, RI. What a night we had......
Posted by Back of the Moon on Mon, 14 May 2007 08:22:00 PST

NYC

We're in New York at the moment for APAP (Association of Perfroming Arts Presenters) and it is definitely worth missing Celtic Connections for! It is our first time in the city and what a place it is...
Posted by Back of the Moon on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:21:00 PST

Problem with Dates

Have you noticed that according to our up coming dates section we currently have no gigs? Its not true, honestly we do! We've been having a few problems with our profile and can'tseem to be edit tha...
Posted by Back of the Moon on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:45:00 PST

Dirty Linen

There is a nice interview with the band in the September Issue. We met up with writer Kerry Dexter with at the Folk Alliance back in Febuaury, and Ali did lots of talking which is a rare occurance so...
Posted by Back of the Moon on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:43:00 PST

Since we've been home...

Well, since we returned from Canada we've had a busy couple of weeks with gigs at home in Scotland and also south of the border.Our Edinburgh Fringe Festival gig was in the St Brides Accoustic Music C...
Posted by Back of the Moon on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:35:00 PST

Canadian Tour

Well thats us home from six weeks on tour, five of which were in Canada, briefy crossing the border once to go to a lovely festival in Vermont on Lake Champlain.It was a successful tour with lots of C...
Posted by Back of the Moon on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:38:00 PST

Penguin Eggs

Almost a year later we are still getting reviews in for Luminosity. This is definitely one of our better ones!!Penguin Eggs Magazine Winter Edition No28Back of the MoonLuminosityFootstompin RecordsIn...
Posted by Back of the Moon on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:46:00 PST

Tis the Season...

We managed to kick start the festival season in style with a fantastic trip to Shetland.  This really was one of the best festivals we have done yet, you can see some highlights on the news secti...
Posted by Back of the Moon on Wed, 31 May 2006 06:53:00 PST

Howdy!

Well evenutally we're starting to get the hang of this.  Still haven't got a very flashy profile yet but thats next!!We've got a quiet-ish month ahead of us with the band which is probably a good...
Posted by Back of the Moon on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:26:00 PST