Liam McKahey - vocals and percussion Robin Brown - guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals Joe Peet - basses, violin, backing vocals Tom Clues - acoustic guitar
Past members of the band include:
Davey Ray Moor
Craig Vear
Dan Church
Dan Moore
Chloe March
Paul Wigens
Influences
Liam: Bowie, Iggy, Gainsbourg, Scott Walker, Lee Hazlewood, Super Furry Animals, Shack, Hank Williams, Calexico, Handsome Family and much more too numerous to mention. Robin: Grew up with classical music, became a teen metalhead, then punk and artschool new wave. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Doors, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Wire, Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Tom Verlaine, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sex Pistols & Public Image, Gang of Four, Damned, Stranglers, Cure, Rip Rig & Panic. Got the funk and hip hop, James Brown, Schooly D, Public Enemy, N.W.A., George Clinton, The Meters, Dr John, Ray Barretto, Fela Kuti, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Brian Eno, Nirvana, The Breeders, Jeff Buckley, Beck, Mad Professor, The Orb, Fatboy Slim, Massive Attack, David Bowie, Neil Young, Radiohead, John Barry, Ennio Morricone, Iggy Pop, Nile Rogers, Prince, Howling Wolf, Lightning Hopkins, Captain Beefheart, Portishead, Lea Perry, King Tubby, Brad Mehldau, Medeski Martin & Wood, Steve Reich, Billy Jenkins, Django Reinhardt Joe: Tom: in no particular order: Tim Hardin, Fred Neil, John Martyn, Richard Thompson, Jackson C Frank, Nick Drake, Neil Young, John Renbourn, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Sandy Denny, Tom Rush, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Dave Matthews, John Prine, Simon Allen, Joan Armatrading, Skip Spence, Bob Dylan, Johny Cash, Jamie Lawson, Gram Parsons, Anne Briggs, Tom Petty, Bert Jansch.
Cousteau are a London based group, formed in 1998,
who gained critical acclaim in the UK and other countries, with considerable success in the US and Italy.
Members of the group have a long background in music, Robin composing soundtracks, Liam sang in various bands and Joe was a session musician.
The band name was influenced by the fact all the group had grown up watching the legendary Jacques Cousteau on TV, and the sound the group was producing had an underwater feel.
The first Cousteau album was self-produced and recorded in various home studios. 3,000 copies were released on the Global Warming label in 1999 and were quickly sold out. Subsequently Palm Pictures signed the group who then re-recorded the majority of the songs for the 2000 release of the eponymous album.
The song The Last Good Day of the Year was used in TV adverts in the US and Italy and the group became well known in those countries, touring extensively.
The group's second album, Sirena, was released in 2002, coming out in the US with a DVD of videos for the singles. During the year they continued to tour the UK and Italy including appearing in front of an audience of 30,000 at Cagliari.
To solve a visa problem Dan Moore was recruited to play keyboards for the US stage of the tour. The group's songwriter Davey Ray Moor then decided to leave the band so Liam took on the task of writing songs for the much anticipated third album with assistance from the band members.
The year 2003 saw the band doing a lot less touring but beginning to write and record the third album for which they eventually signed to Endeavour Records in late 2004. Nova Scotia finally saw the light of day in April 2005.
The group toured the UK and Italy that year culminating in a charity gig for the Tsunami in July, ably supported by El Hula (now known as The Thin Men).
In July 2005 Tindersticks drummer Al Macaulay played drums for the group at a private gig in Italy.
Nova Scotia was released in the US in January 2006 on the One Little Indian label, for legal reasons the band had to use the name Moreau for this release.
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
Ciao e grazie per l' amicizia..è un piacere per me averti tra gli amici!! Volevo farti conoscere il mio progetto myspace.com/thenoesis , siamo autori di testi per canzoni in cerca di collaborazioni!! Passa dal mio space quando vuoi..sei sempre il benvenuto..Complimenti per tutto..e buona musica!!! Cari saluti Vincent
How are you, Cousteau? Haven't checked in on you lately, so I swung by to wish you a happy October & hope you are feeling well! Listen, I have another track up on my page, "Attack Of The Mushroom People." You can Hear it right Now, if you'd like at: www.myspace.com/psychedelicpablo adios for now! Pablo
the power deep inside... a new tune... sad one like always... let youre tears gone... don't think what you can make betther... tel youre kids what they can make betther... regards ... terry
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