Expect to be pleased. It's been a whole month and they are back! The Moon Music Orchestra will be performing this saturday at the Glad. as usual it's free to get in and drinks are 'normal' prices......still cant believe you can see the MMO in full flow in their own pub for free, amazing! Anyway, the get there early as usual or you may be standing outside peering thru the window.
hello hello!!! The sessions for the album are getting closer to the end and so I thought let’s put one more song on myspace and there it is, Miss Cool Talker…I guess everybody knows one…anyway, this one took a while to get into shape but I think…mmm, no no… you listen to it and let me know what “you” think! Have a sunny and long weekend Loris
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So we made it back in one piece then. We'll, 6 pieces rather bruised pieces.. Thanks everyone who came and helped us make the Round Trip mini-tour with Fin so much fun. We swapped so many clothes that the band's now got 17 whole new outfits and drank so much tequila that our eyes bled.
All good things come to an end though and, whilst a little of our collective heart shall always remain strewn across the treacherous Roundtrip route, we feel contented in the fact that the good ship MMO has turned a little musical corner and whole lot more love has been spread.
So back to London and another MMO party back home at The Gladstone this weekend (Saturday 12th April)
HI thnx for the friendship and it’s nice to know you! Think it’s nice to be connected with musicians all over the world. In music we are all alike and speak the same language!!! I think you have very nice music, I enjoyed listening to it…… really sounds GREAT ….love it !! Greets from “D E E Z E L” (Belgium) and lots of luck in every thing you do!! If you can find the time check out my music too (thnx)
Hey Fin, Thanks for another great gig last night at Proud even if the lights annoyed you. I really enjoyed it at least! You are always so funny and charismatic on stage and who else would play slide guitar with a rubber cock. Lol!!! Plus of course your voice and songs are stunning and "I had a dream" brought a tear to my eye I have to admit! See you soon x
and played on the same bill as such legends of Old Time music as Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson and Roscoe Holcomb. After a couple of years living in Sweden, Tom moved to London at the end of 1965 and in the 1970s took up the fiddle, adding Swedish fiddle tunes to his eclectic repertoire. Tom still plays regularly and hosts a weekly Old Timey session at a small pub not a stone’s throw from ‘Come Down and Meet the Folks’, where he’ll be playing with varied accompaniment from his friends on Sunday 13th April…Y’all come!
Come Down and Meet the Folks Old Time Moonshine Medicine Show Featuring Tom Paley and Friends
Hypothesis: Imagine finding out that a legendary & influential Blues singer, say Bukka White or Lightnin’ Hopkins was alive and well - and living just down the road from you, right here in North West London – and none of your friends knew about him? Imagine further still that you and your friends were part of a thriving local Blues scene on which you’d recently been dj-ing rather a lot, and that you were in a position to offer said singer a gig? You’d do something about it – right? A romantic notion I hear you say? Not so!!
The man in question is not Lightnin’ or Bukka, and he’s not strictly a Blues singer (although Blues is certainly a part of his repertoire). He’s Tom Paley – a singer and player of traditional American folk songs who played with Woody Guthrie as a duo at several small gigs and union meetings and at the famous Leadbelly memorial concert in 1950. Tom was a formative influence on the young Bob Dylan (the Martin Scorcese documentary ‘No Direction Home’ features extensive footage of Tom withThe New Lost City Ramblers).
The scene in question is not strictly a Blues scene either (although Blues is certainly one of the main ingredients in the Gumbo), but the hub of London’s burgeoning Americana/Alt Country movement. It’s ‘Come Down and Meet the Folks’ – a twice monthly, free Sunday affair – hosted by much loved and respected Country singer songwriter Alan Tyler - at a wonderful old pub called The Apple Tree on Mount Pleasant, just off Rosebury Avenue.
Tom, who turned 80 last week, was born and raised in New York City where, in 1945 he learned to play banjo and guitar. Although he first recorded in 1953 (a 10” LP of mountain songs for the Electra label), he gained wider recognition on forming the New Lost City Ramblers in 1958 with Mike Seeger (Pete’s half brother) and John Cohen. They recorded extensively for the Folkways label
Hey, I was at the deaf institute last nite and wanted to say thanks, it had a great vibe. Reminded me of the festival express! New tunes sound ace too. Gutted i cant come for London next week, all the best with the rest sir! Ps. that 'u never liked to share tho, did u?' banter was genius! Nice1, Craig x
hello mate, been meaning to come and catch a show for ages,i will be there on the 9th at the amersham as im supporting you and on stage 1st! looking forward to it mate......... paul, the weight
