Member Since: 08/05/2006
Band Website: tunecore.com/music/keithmoss
Band Members:
Influences: I don't know if I'd term them influences but this is what fills the ears and shifts the gears: Joy Division/New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Pretenders, The Jam, The House of Love, The La's, blur, The Police, The Bangles, Saint Etienne, The Cure, The Byrds, Super Furry Animals, Blondie, ELO, XTC, ABBA, REM, PIL, U2, My Bloody Valentine, Suede, Ride, Bread, Edgar Broughton Band, The Charlatans, Sly & The Family Stone, Nirvana, Cocteau Twins, Fountains Of Wayne, Beck, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Kinks, Elastica, The Teardrop Explodes, Genesis, Buzzcocks, The Only Ones, Pet Shop Boys, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Monkees, The Doors, Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Velvet Underground, Sex Pistols, The Vines, (The) Verve, Simple Minds, Duran Duran, Oasis, Madonna, Happy Mondays, Neko Case, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Roxy Music, Roy Harper, David Bowie, Suzanne Vega, Syd Barrett, Big Star, Kate Bush, Television, Radiohead, Phil Collins, Prince, Dubstar, Bernard Butler, Depeche Mode, The Beach Boys, David Gray, Manic Street Preachers, Simon & Garfunkel, B-52's, Clearlake, The Clientele, Billy Joel, Crowded House, Embrace, Erasure, Rufus Wainwright, Eurythmics, Spiritualized (Electric Mainline), The Rolling Stones before they became The Strolling Bones, The Sundays, Bonzo Dog Band, Veruca Salt, Wire, Pugwash, Fleetwood Mac, Gang of Four, Harry Nilsson, Joe Jackson, Juliana Hatfield, Julian Cope, Madness, Mary Margaret O' Hara, Lionel Richie, Moz, Macca/Wings, My Morning Jacket, Nazz, Paul Woodward, Mumblin Deaf Ro, Level 42 (the good bits), McAlmont & Butler, Hall & Oates, The Mamas & The Papas, Faust, Feist, Bryan Adams (I tell you, the 'groover from Vancouver' has several fine songs amidst the bombastic rawk rubbish!), The Fall, Belinda Carlisle, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, The Pretty Things, Michael Chapman, Forest, Kevin Ayers, The Durutti Column, Supertramp (the Roger Hodgson-penned material only), Lou Reed, Chris Singleton, Bruce Hornsby & The Range, Clannad, Melancholy-tinged AOR, post-punk, psych-prog, dream-pop, power-pop, footballers and football managers' post-match interviews, 'Withnail & I', 'Crimewatch UK', 'Unsolved Mysteries', 'The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst', 'The Office', 'Fawlty Towers', 'Only Fools & Horses', 'Brass Eye','This Is Spinal Tap', 'Prisoner: Cell Block H', The brunette mystique of Marisa Tomei, Susannah Hoffs, Chrissie Hynde & 'China Beach'-era Dana Delaney. The frustrated/defiant/suspicious/bemused facial expressions of Hernán Crespo/Gabriel Heinze/Sir Alex/Roman Abramovich.
Sounds Like: "The last of the great punk rockers. A jammy dodger of Richard Hell, Neil Hannon and Lester Bangs all rolled into one scrumptious mouthful. Honest, original and individual, the spirit of '76 lives and breathes through this little-known genius..." - Hot Press."A punk poet for the new millenium. Funny and heartbreaking, angry and uplifting. The legacy of John Otway and Reckless Eric lives on in this huge young talent" - Time Out."A curious mixture of Bernard Butler and Loudon Wainwright III...someone to keep a judicious eye out for" -The Irish Times."The Dublin punk poet and rebel singer-songwriter Keith Moss who was once escorted from the building of NewsTalk for singing an 'unsuitable' song live on air" - News of the World."A man who has taken lo-fi to new levels by releasing a couple of albums which sound like drunken Beach Boys recorded in Beck's jacks" -The Slate."An original in a sea of shite" - Jinx Lennon."The epicentre of all things eccentric...an utterly mesmerising amalgam of Nick Drake and a stoned 'Weird' Al Yankovic. The songs host a sublime pop sensibility...(8/10)" - Hot Press review for fourth LP 'Time Is The Clock That Never Stops'."Keith Moss has been described as many things but it must be said, any attempt to pigeonhole Moss should be avoided because, inevitably, it is a futile task...one thing you can say with certainty is that Moss is unique...(and) notoriously prolific" - The Sunday Tribune."An unlikely melange of Nick Drake and Monty Python" -The Ticket (Irish Times)."The love-child that Patti Smith and Syd Barrett ought to have had" - Connected."Not since Pink Floyd unleashed their 'Ummagumma' album has their been more surreal or lengthy song titles than on the first two releases by singer-songwriter Keith Moss...An instinctive showmanship and genuine musical talent that has been earning serious kudos...A veritable well of creativity..." - Inside Entertainment (Cork newspaper)."Bewitching...Fantastically odd" - Blank (Northern Irish music mag).
Record Label: Juxtaposition Records (A&R: D. Brent)
Type of Label: Indie