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Glytchvolk Musique
Concrete
First Actions
Thee Moths formed as a fuzzy guitar pop band in 2000, initially as a quintet with former members of Alex's old band Magnetic North Pole. That then slimmed to a trio and then down to a duo. The duo version (Alex and Dominique Ferraton) recorded the first two albums plus a slew of EPs and compilation tracks. Though Dominique left the band Alex continued, releasing several more albums before deciding to call it a day in summer 2008
Second Actions
Around the start of 2009 Alex began to feel that he maybe had more to say under Thee Moths' banner. With this in mind he started up again, this time deliberately moving away from the structured song based roots of the band. Though there may be song centric recordings in the future, these are likely to not be under the name Thee Moths. Concentrating now more on making things limited and special than mass produced and available, Alex has started a series of extremely limited releases, runs of anything between 5 and 20 copies with handmade artwork, released regularly. Live shows now take one of two forms - electronic voice/laptop/synth improv with audience participation under the name 'Many Hands/Light Work', and completely improvised 'singer/songwriter' shows where the songs are written on the fly during the performance from suggestions by the gig goers. Thee Moths second actions is entirely about improvisation and engaging with the audience.
A lot of the music from the First Actions is available online for free, the Second Actions material is available in very short runs from gigs or the store. To date Thee Moths have been featured on 60 releases over 9 years.
These people have all been extra members of Thee Moths: Gav (drummer for first two shows), Kat (bassist for first two shows), Hilary (guitarist on first recordings), James (guitarist on first recordings), Ronnie Wallace (bassist on first recordings), Dominique Ferraton (singing, guitar, bass, violin...lot's of other stuff for a really long time), Angi (drums at Littlest Album launch), Duncan Roberston (bass at Littlest Album launch), Ant (drums during the summer 2002 shows), Peter Moug (guitar at the Kill Your Timid Notion Fringe), Neil McIntee (guitar at the Kill Your Timid Notion Fringe), Mike Lennie (bass and vocals), Kirstin White (vocals, clapping), Ross Trundlewheel (Trombone), Pete Liddle (Trumpet), Krissy Tower, Joe Merchant (drums), Kaye Brewster (vocals and violin), Christianne Ormston (vocals), Joe Howe (vocals, mixing and a load of other stuff on 'Beau Chien'), Milly Barnard, Zeph Owsley, Gaz Owsley, Adam Hits The Atmosphere (plus two of his friends), Adrian Orange, Meghan Crotty, Craig Pulsar, Emily Roff, Andy Bonar, Gerard Black, Michael Lambert, the audience at the 'Farewell Dundee' show, Erin Day, Ade Bordicott, Paul McGazz, Rick Faber, Kat Botten-Clark, Andy Grewcock, Alex Goodwin, Ange Cross-Clements, Phil Cross-Clements, Phil's friend who plays bass, Victoria and Jacob, a few other people at the gig on the 28th of May 2009, Thomas Moore, Siân McFarlane, Tim from Katie Fitzgerald's, members of The Graham Parsnip Etc Etc, loads of people at the gig on the 29th of May 2009 in Stourbridge.
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