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About Me

Dare and Marty grew up together on the Wirral listening to prog, krautrock, spacerock, new wave, punk, artrock, funk, classic 60s pop singles, glamrock and heavy rock, probably the reason for their diverse and eclectic sound. Moving to Australia in the 80s Marty joined the influential Australian band The Church and, for a while, All About Eve while Dare concentrated on becoming an engineer and producer, founding the VIP Lounge studio in Penzance, Cornwall. They formed Noctorum in 2002, releasing their first album, Sparks Lane, on Heyday Records, an independent label in the US. Their second release, Offer the Light was released in August 2006. To buy the CD click here
Dare Mason was interviewed recently by David White of BBC Radio Cornwall. He gives many insights into the world of Noctorum as well as his own production work at the VIP Lounge. Just click here to listen.
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Member Since: 4/19/2006
Band Members: Dare Mason and Marty Willson-Piper
Influences: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, The Kinks, Hollies, Small Faces, Traffic, Camel, Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, ELP, T Rex, King Crimson, The Faces, Sly and the Family Stone, Roxy Music, 10cc, XTC, Wire, Queen, The Pretenders, Elvis Costello, The Jam, Television, Patti Smith, Michael Mantler, Robert Wyatt, Gong, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Hawkwind, Alex Harvey, Alquin, Focus, Golden Earring, Can, Tangerine Dream, Eno, Sex Pistols, The Ruts, The Stranglers, The Police, The Smiths, Fairport, Sandy Denny, Steeleye Span, Kraftwerk, Holger Czukay, Japan, David Sylvian, Free, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Stevie Wonder, Dusty Springfield, David Bowie, Curved Air, Laura Nyro, Todd Rungren, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Santana. Beach Boys, Bee Gees, Sade, Bjork, Blondie, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Carpenters, Motown, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Tubeway Army, John Foxx, Jellyfish, kd lang, Kate Bush, Leonard Cohen, Carole King, Massive Attack, Mercury Rev, Mew, Moody Blues, Weather Report, Mountain, The Move, Nick Cave, Nirvana, Comsat Angels, The Only Ones, Simon & Garfunkel, P J Harvey, Portishead, Prefab Sprout, Prince, Psychedelic Furs, Radiohead, Richard Thompson, Seal, Smashing Pumpkins, Crowded House, Astrid Gilberto, Steely Dan, Supertramp, Talk Talk, Tom Petty, Wishbone Ash.
Sounds Like: a mixture of all the above plus ingredient X

Record Label: Heyday Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Dare Mason live in London

FOLD, the electro/chillout collaboration between Dare and David Bickley have just had their debut album released through Arabesque distribution.To celebrate the launch they are playing their first eve...
Posted by Noctorum on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:31:00 PST

Album in progress

Lots of people seem to be excited about the new album I'm producing for MWP so I thought I'd better give you an update on how things are going down at the VIP Lounge.We have started recording ten of M...
Posted by Noctorum on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:43:00 PST

New album

Actually, that title is a bit misleading cos Marty and I are together here in Penzance at the Noctorum control centre and we are going to make a new album but it is going to be a Marty Willson-Piper s...
Posted by Noctorum on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:15:00 PST

Podcast Interview with Dare

The recent interview of Dare Mason on David White's BBC Radio show can now be listened to as a podcast on this site. Dare talks about how he and Marty write and record and also about his production wo...
Posted by Noctorum on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:08:00 PST

Noctorum on BBC radio

Our good friend David White is to feature Noctorum next week (24th - 28th Sept) on his radio show. He broadcasts from 9am till 12 pm on BBC Radio Cornwall and will play a Nocky track every day at abou...
Posted by Noctorum on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:09:00 PST

New Noctorum album

The new Noctorum album, "Offer the Light" is at long last released and available. The album features 10 new songs and is the usual eclectic mixture of styles ranging from soft balladry to cutting edge...
Posted by Noctorum on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:32:00 PST

Noctorum Interview

To view in depth interview with Marty and Dare click here then hit the red arrow next to Chimpanzee_7_lores.pdf
Posted by Noctorum on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:28:00 PST

New Old Noctorum photos - New York 1989

Leftenant Reg has come up with the goods and sent us some photos of Marty and I playing in New York in 1989 when I played with Marty on his US tour. We were promoting "Art Attack" though we did play a...
Posted by Noctorum on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 05:18:00 PST

High as a Kite as free download!!

This is a song every one should have on their pop compilation CD so we're giving it away and we want you to enjoy it and pass it on to your friends. Hey, even Tiare's mum likes it.
Posted by Noctorum on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:08:00 PST

Noctorum jam with Ricky

While I was away in Norway helping my girlfriend, Caroline, to move from Stavanger to Oslo, Marty and Tiare drove to Wales to the Tapestry West Festival. They missed the whole festival because they ha...
Posted by Noctorum on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:21:00 PST