Alan Moorhouse (guitar, vocals, harmonica)
Markus Apitius (bass, vocals, guitar and piano)
Gerd Lewandowski (guitar, accordeon and vocals)
Volker Neumann (drums and vocals)
Thomas Kärner - occasional guest on nearly anything with strings or keys! He sings nice harmonies too!
Influences
All the sixties rock/pop icons, Jake Thackray, Tom Lehrer, Bill Boazman, Phil Beer, Paul Downes, Don Partridge, Phil Free, Glynn Nicholas and lots of other nice people, whom I either heard on record or met on the road.
Sounds Like
Pub rock, punk folk, jug band, pub sessions... Entertainment before perfection.
Alan Moorhouse has been playing around Cologne and Central Europe for nearly thirty
years now. As a vastly experienced busker, pub entertainer, rock band front man
etc, it was inevitable that a band would eventually emerge to play the original
material. The songs are mainly character sketches and stories of other peoples'
lives. Alan is probably too boring to have any interesting songs about his own
life! The original "Alan's Abits" (Alan, Thomas Kärner and Markus Apitius) got
together in the early nineties, with occasional revivals and co-operation on recordings.
However, when Markus produced the first two solo albums, it became apparent that
a more permanent band was needed to take the songs out to their natural setting.
As the gifted multi instrumentalist Thomas Kärner now lives some 500km away in
Bavaria, Alan's best friend, Gerd Lewandowski, stepped in on guitar and accordeon.
Drummer Volker Neumann has now joined to give more structure to the bottom end.
(He is also a useful harmony singer). Alan's mug has appeared on Viva TV, presenting
"Kamikaze" with the eccentric VJ Nils Ruf as the "house band" (one man banding).
There has also have been a fair bit of footage of him at various festivals - particularly
the Pflaster Spektakel in Linz, Austria. Some years ago he made a TV film with
the German independent film maker Michael Schomers, in which he both performed
and gave an extended interview. The two CDs, produced by Markus Apitius, have
received airplay in the US, Canada, Ireland, Germany and the UK. The band is currently
working in new songs and will be active around the Cologne area this autumn. A
UK tour is planned for next June.
aloha mr. moorhouse, how are you? hope you and your band are fine!? i would like to see another concert of you, hopefully somwhere round cologne. best greetings Timo
Every time that we listen & write music... play an instrument... dance... act in a play... or work in some audio/image/video engineering process... something is healing inside...
When we share it with friends... something is healing all over...
Love can drive... in a simple way... everything
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cada vez que escuchamos o escribimos musica... tocamos un instrumento... bailamos... o trabajamos en procesos de ingenieria de audio/imagen/video.... algo se sana por dentro...
Cuando lo compartimos con amigos... algo se sana en todas partes...
El Amor puede conducir... de manera simple... todo...
hi Mr. Moorhouse, how r you? hope fine ;) long time ago that we met :S and i missed your gig :/ should have checked it, my current english teacher is well... but she tries but she doesnt have that flair, which we had in your funny lessons.
Well write me if you have any concerts again in Cologne, i would like to listen to you and your band :D
cheers Guys Its always good to come and hear your stuff as it hits the spot for sure. Thanks for leaving a comment on our Blog scribblings. Steve Dambusker Peace & Love to yer from The Dambuskers Keep Music Live & KEEP It Real.!!! -
yea i am doing good thankes. am looking around for a new job at the moment i have an interview for working in a care home on monday so hope that all goes well and i can finally get out of my factory job. have fun marking all those papers take it easy kitt
hey mR. M :)how are you, hope you're fine! Well have a pleasent last weekend before school starts again, i will definetly enjoy it. Your songs are great ;) and my friend got an "ear-worm" dunno whats it in english, hope this word will work too D:
hey Alan, big thanks for offering to help :) right now we don't have any trip to germany planned for the foreseeable future, but it's always great to get some new contacts, if you feel like sharing them with us :)
