Sunday 25 September 2011
Latest find
Amazing night at the Tricycle
So now the film Sue made is going on a UK tour!
Be sure to watch Hammadullah the road home either at the cinema when its in town, or check it out online from next month, I will post it up so you can view it.
Very proud of Sue, and was my first film credit for scoring the sound track.
Be sure to watch Hammadullah the road home either at the cinema when its in town, or check it out online from next month, I will post it up so you can view it.
Very proud of Sue, and was my first film credit for scoring the sound track.
Wednesday 21 September 2011
Hamadullah, The road home
So the new film from Sue Clayton is now upon us!
The Tricycle Theatre is showing it tomorrow night at 830pm and I'm excited.
It's my first film sound track I've scored, and I'm pleased its for Sue.
After so much time in the studio our hard efforts have paid off, so make sure you see it, its a very moving documentary about a young boy that seeks refuge in the UK and is turned back home like so many young people everyday.
Get tickets here: http://www.tricycle.co.uk/current-programme-pages/cinema-program/cinema/human-rights-film-night/
Join the facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170358013040807
Thursday 7 July 2011
DAVID MOORE AND THE OARS - LUND [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
So here we go, another music video from Ben Galster and co. and it looks really nice, Im so happy with it, it was recorded at Lee Street Studios (which is basically Chris's home) the night before the warehouse gig we had there, enjoy!
Monday 4 July 2011
Flaming Lips at Alexandra Palace
From a young age I loved this album and like always i wished I'd have seen it been performed, now ATP are running a series of gigs dedicated to great albums being performed once again by artists!
This gig was incredible, I love this band and being able to see them play the Soft Bulletin was amazing, a real show that unless you go to one you'd never quite understand how crazy they are.
Lights, pojections, singer Wayne Coyne rolling around inside an inflated ball over the audiences heads...
Monday 20 June 2011
WU LYF
I could only imagine what seeing Joy Division was like in their begining would be something as electric as WU LYF.We were packed into Village underground, a warehouse space in Shoreditch and the minute they came on the place erupted, infact by the end of the gig it felt more like a football riot.
One of the best gigs I've ever seen, and it is a must see for anyone who hasn't.
'LYF'!
Wednesday 25 May 2011
Fleet Foxes new album 'Helplessness Blues'
On first listen I didn't think alot of it, but its grown.
The only way to describe it now is heavenly.
All those Fleet Foxes elements we love but with a more mature edge, in fact it makes the first album seem commercial now, I love it beginning to end. A band like this only comes about every now and then.
The only way to describe it now is heavenly.
All those Fleet Foxes elements we love but with a more mature edge, in fact it makes the first album seem commercial now, I love it beginning to end. A band like this only comes about every now and then.
Monday 23 May 2011
A few word's about the gig
So the gig went down pretty bloody well I'd say.
Packed it out, class acts supporting us, Giles Gooden and his monster voice! Ben from Loud like a lion has some lovely songs too.
Thanx to Chris and Gina we could use the Lee street studio which also looked awesome with how it got decorated.
It couldn't have gone better, so we'll be doing more of those soon!
Thank you all of you who came and supported us all and made it such a good night.
See you all very soon.
XX
Packed it out, class acts supporting us, Giles Gooden and his monster voice! Ben from Loud like a lion has some lovely songs too.
Thanx to Chris and Gina we could use the Lee street studio which also looked awesome with how it got decorated.
It couldn't have gone better, so we'll be doing more of those soon!
Thank you all of you who came and supported us all and made it such a good night.
See you all very soon.
XX
Thursday 12 May 2011
Vapor trails
I have one eye open because the other is red and weeping, I'm a proper face ache!
Hayfever is rubbish, my brother spent most of his life suffering and I never realised quite how horrible it is, it affects my singing voice as well. bah!
The other day I was walking along the street with my mate Jim and he was telling me about the 'vapor trail conspiracies', if you dont know about it then I'll tell you, its the idea that the government is dropping chemicals on us from the jet engines of aeroplanes, what for is anyones guess, Jim thinks its to stupify the general public, my thoughts are that its to create sickness and allergies.
How come people are developing hayfever and other allergies so much? and we all know how much money there is in the drugs market when it comes to preventing sickness or keeping it at bay, you could even live your life normally with HIV now with the help of drugs, funny how there is never a cure, and it cripples us, and makes us dependant, I walk around like a zombie when my hayfever flares up!
Most people know that I have little trust in people with power, for good reason I'd say considering that they have now been finding babies being born in fallujah with deformaties just after the war there, it was heavily bombed durring the Iraq war and there was ment to be no more chemical weapons or uranium tipped missiles used, but sure enough they were, because our governments couldn't care less about these things and none ever will.
Yesterday I found out there is estrogen in the tap water!! I've bought a water filter.
Hayfever is rubbish, my brother spent most of his life suffering and I never realised quite how horrible it is, it affects my singing voice as well. bah!
The other day I was walking along the street with my mate Jim and he was telling me about the 'vapor trail conspiracies', if you dont know about it then I'll tell you, its the idea that the government is dropping chemicals on us from the jet engines of aeroplanes, what for is anyones guess, Jim thinks its to stupify the general public, my thoughts are that its to create sickness and allergies.
How come people are developing hayfever and other allergies so much? and we all know how much money there is in the drugs market when it comes to preventing sickness or keeping it at bay, you could even live your life normally with HIV now with the help of drugs, funny how there is never a cure, and it cripples us, and makes us dependant, I walk around like a zombie when my hayfever flares up!
Most people know that I have little trust in people with power, for good reason I'd say considering that they have now been finding babies being born in fallujah with deformaties just after the war there, it was heavily bombed durring the Iraq war and there was ment to be no more chemical weapons or uranium tipped missiles used, but sure enough they were, because our governments couldn't care less about these things and none ever will.
Yesterday I found out there is estrogen in the tap water!! I've bought a water filter.
Sunday 8 May 2011
Gig 21st May, 5 Lee Street Studio, Shoreditch
Hi all
Long time since I've written anything, I've been offline so its been tough getting to do basic stuff.
So we've got a gig, 21st May at Lee Street Studio just off Kingsland Road by the Tesco there, its a cool little warehouse space we rehearse in and we're thinking about doing a few of these, but lets see how we go, we're gonna have a fun night of good music and drinks, gonna be pretty cheap too.
Hope you can all come, let me know via facebook if you're coming so I can put your name on the concessions list!
Long time since I've written anything, I've been offline so its been tough getting to do basic stuff.
So we've got a gig, 21st May at Lee Street Studio just off Kingsland Road by the Tesco there, its a cool little warehouse space we rehearse in and we're thinking about doing a few of these, but lets see how we go, we're gonna have a fun night of good music and drinks, gonna be pretty cheap too.
Hope you can all come, let me know via facebook if you're coming so I can put your name on the concessions list!
Thursday 21 April 2011
Dazed and Confused
What are peoples views on the dazed write up? on the video?
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/10182/1/david-moore--the-oars-video-premiere-loveless
Hard work pays off and im going to have a weekend in the sun.
Note to self on how to get things done, work your arse off and say thank you!
Enjoy your Easter people... Cheers
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/10182/1/david-moore--the-oars-video-premiere-loveless
Hard work pays off and im going to have a weekend in the sun.
Note to self on how to get things done, work your arse off and say thank you!
Enjoy your Easter people... Cheers
Sunday 17 April 2011
Thoughts...
Sometimes i write down small thoughts, drunk or angry normally.
So I'm looking through them and thought I'd share a few for fun...
If you live in a middle class neighbourhood expect to be woken up early by DIY. If you live in a working class neighbourhood expect to be kept awake by domestic violence. I'm more a night person but dont judge me.
I'm dubious of those preconditioned answers like "people died for your right to...", someone also died for some of the worst regimes ever and I expect kids were told off in a similar manner in those places too.
I feel less a consumer and more consumed.
I wonder if the speed of thought can be determined by handwriting?
On your list of changes I think your hair shouldn't be the first.
Never argue with your girlfriend while drunk!
Another preconditioned answer to watch out for... "who is they?".
Why in middle class areas are there yoga flyers EVERYWHERE? Maybe because its lazy excercise... haha I said it.
I met some very thick people today... When people wonder how the Nazi party came to power is it really that hard to fathom?
Shoreditch made my mind up, beauty can become freak and Just coz you're loud doesn't mean you have a big personallity.
Anything for the greater good i'm pretty sure is not for my good.
I knew a guy called rory once, he wore a che gevara t-shirt to collage and got people telling him he was cool, He also had a Chairman Moa, Lenin and Pol Pot t-shirt too. not similar reactions. I liked his one man mission to prove some kinda point, he said he did it coz he hated the che being cool thing, I'm with him, but he was an odd guy.
I've decided im a cat person over a dog person, dog people like the power trip, I like how cats are flying solo.
While I'm on the subject of animals, I dont get how come people hate pigeons? its a generally shared opinion that they're rubbish, I can't say they ever bothered me. I'm for pigeons too!
Pretty sure TFL needs a new signal system.
Why and how do women try and apply makeup on the tube?
The Doctor has no idea whats wrong with me and that was that, 30 something years experience and nothing! Blank face. How many people are walking round with things wrong that they have no idea about?
PS. Dont believe statistics, and never google your illness or ailments!!!!
So I'm looking through them and thought I'd share a few for fun...
If you live in a middle class neighbourhood expect to be woken up early by DIY. If you live in a working class neighbourhood expect to be kept awake by domestic violence. I'm more a night person but dont judge me.
I'm dubious of those preconditioned answers like "people died for your right to...", someone also died for some of the worst regimes ever and I expect kids were told off in a similar manner in those places too.
I feel less a consumer and more consumed.
I wonder if the speed of thought can be determined by handwriting?
On your list of changes I think your hair shouldn't be the first.
Never argue with your girlfriend while drunk!
Another preconditioned answer to watch out for... "who is they?".
Why in middle class areas are there yoga flyers EVERYWHERE? Maybe because its lazy excercise... haha I said it.
I met some very thick people today... When people wonder how the Nazi party came to power is it really that hard to fathom?
Shoreditch made my mind up, beauty can become freak and Just coz you're loud doesn't mean you have a big personallity.
Anything for the greater good i'm pretty sure is not for my good.
I knew a guy called rory once, he wore a che gevara t-shirt to collage and got people telling him he was cool, He also had a Chairman Moa, Lenin and Pol Pot t-shirt too. not similar reactions. I liked his one man mission to prove some kinda point, he said he did it coz he hated the che being cool thing, I'm with him, but he was an odd guy.
I've decided im a cat person over a dog person, dog people like the power trip, I like how cats are flying solo.
While I'm on the subject of animals, I dont get how come people hate pigeons? its a generally shared opinion that they're rubbish, I can't say they ever bothered me. I'm for pigeons too!
Pretty sure TFL needs a new signal system.
Why and how do women try and apply makeup on the tube?
The Doctor has no idea whats wrong with me and that was that, 30 something years experience and nothing! Blank face. How many people are walking round with things wrong that they have no idea about?
PS. Dont believe statistics, and never google your illness or ailments!!!!
Dazed digital
So people know, Dazed and confused's online site 'dazed digital' will be premiering the music video 'loveless' on wednesday the 20th April at 10am.
Please check it out on: http://www.dazeddigital.com/
Please check it out on: http://www.dazeddigital.com/
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Lund lyrics
Enough of my babble and here is the lyrics to Lund if you care. Thought it might be nice, I wont go into detail on my songs to much, I think that these things are personal to both the artist and the listener and can hold different meaning and emotion.
The strange thing about this song is that it was intended as an instrumental piece, and toward the end of recording i heard the mellody you hear and just jumped out and sang it, and recorded it in about 2 minutes, something very natural and unedited about it came out and i think it became my favourate.
Ill put some more lyrics and words up soon.
Wade the waves
Climb the sky with you
I need a friend
Until the end
I hope that you will be there too
So cast away
The road it starts anew
Some day again
In a thousand years
I hope that you will be there too
The strange thing about this song is that it was intended as an instrumental piece, and toward the end of recording i heard the mellody you hear and just jumped out and sang it, and recorded it in about 2 minutes, something very natural and unedited about it came out and i think it became my favourate.
Ill put some more lyrics and words up soon.
Wade the waves
Climb the sky with you
I need a friend
Until the end
I hope that you will be there too
So cast away
The road it starts anew
Some day again
In a thousand years
I hope that you will be there too
Pop culture...
I would like to discuss this strange notion that people seem to have regarding 'pop'.
Surely it means something which is popular? not a genre of some kind. Yet people have a hard time with it, as if it means something is shit! Granted that most things in 'pop' culture are, I wont deny it, weather its music, art, interior design or modern cars, its about whats easily exported on mass to make maximum amounts of money. But if something great becomes pop then they suddenly dont like it, or they will not except that it is.
However, sometimes great art does become mainstream, as great things inevitable will, they come once every so often and stick the test of time, often its hard at the time to see if something will live forever, but as other things fall to the side these great works last, like 'the beatles' for an obvious and extremely exhausted example, they are pop and created great music and time has shown it.
Sometimes, when im going off at someone about great or true art they say things to me like "well, not ALL music needs to be a master piece, or moving or out of this world!", and generally with those answers, like all the pre-learned and heard before answers, you take this as something widely viewed and exceptable because it sounds knowledgeable, BUT however I think otherwise, I think that it SHOULD be those things.
My Dad told me once that everything I do should be the best I could do it, and I agree with him, if its not then why bother at all?
The difficulty now is the ability that technology gives the entire world a means to create and have the world to view it, so now we are swamped by such an intense amount of rubbish its hard to see the true light, however I love the freedom that the internet brings, but even with my limited faith in humanity being able to see sense, I still believe in the truth seekers who sometimes bring us wonderful, untainted art.
So heres my point, im trying to create the best music I can, forever striving for the pure thing, I made myself sick over these recordings trying to do it, and I would love for everyone to love my work, but I realise that there will always be people who dont, but that if people feel something deep from your art, if you truely tapped into that place that hits your soul, then chances are it will receive some kind of popular aclaim and im totally OK with that. right?
Surely it means something which is popular? not a genre of some kind. Yet people have a hard time with it, as if it means something is shit! Granted that most things in 'pop' culture are, I wont deny it, weather its music, art, interior design or modern cars, its about whats easily exported on mass to make maximum amounts of money. But if something great becomes pop then they suddenly dont like it, or they will not except that it is.
However, sometimes great art does become mainstream, as great things inevitable will, they come once every so often and stick the test of time, often its hard at the time to see if something will live forever, but as other things fall to the side these great works last, like 'the beatles' for an obvious and extremely exhausted example, they are pop and created great music and time has shown it.
Sometimes, when im going off at someone about great or true art they say things to me like "well, not ALL music needs to be a master piece, or moving or out of this world!", and generally with those answers, like all the pre-learned and heard before answers, you take this as something widely viewed and exceptable because it sounds knowledgeable, BUT however I think otherwise, I think that it SHOULD be those things.
My Dad told me once that everything I do should be the best I could do it, and I agree with him, if its not then why bother at all?
The difficulty now is the ability that technology gives the entire world a means to create and have the world to view it, so now we are swamped by such an intense amount of rubbish its hard to see the true light, however I love the freedom that the internet brings, but even with my limited faith in humanity being able to see sense, I still believe in the truth seekers who sometimes bring us wonderful, untainted art.
So heres my point, im trying to create the best music I can, forever striving for the pure thing, I made myself sick over these recordings trying to do it, and I would love for everyone to love my work, but I realise that there will always be people who dont, but that if people feel something deep from your art, if you truely tapped into that place that hits your soul, then chances are it will receive some kind of popular aclaim and im totally OK with that. right?
Thursday 7 April 2011
Summer live
So here is me and Mr Fisher playing at a charity event in London for homeless people, I assume people possbly thought that it was us they were raising money for... Anyway, its a small taster of much more to come, the music video will be premiering on 'Dazed and confused' web site shortly, and a release party will follow. Hope you enjoy!
Tuesday 5 April 2011
I read the news today o'boy
This seems to spark up conversation at work, some call me jadded, others just think I'm a knob.
I stopped reading news papers years ago, when I realised that reading bad stories with bad literature bores the shit out of me, when I realised my eyes where being diverted from what was really going on in my own back garden, when I realised that I was being lied to by the media... or the government... or both! when I got sick of being brain washed by their advertisement, when my girlfriend read you can get cancer from burnt toast (as if living in London wouldn't equate to one of the worst things for your health?), when I could see it was feeding me fear and turning me inside out and round on myself till I didnt know what to think. Till I feared not only the last trusted peoples of our endangered society like the teachers that prey on children to the hooded knife carrying children themselves, but finally myself and what a madman I am and how they should take away my rights so as not to harm myself and others!
These days im out the loop, I hear the roomers, the second hand gosip (all papers are is official gosip really), i'm a satalite orbiting the fringes of this world, like hubble tearing across space at 18000 miles and hour, im told I can keep up with the world if I only read a paper, but this old world needs to keep up with me. I hear the weeks frenzied news where we either gotta give to someone or take from someone else, like anyone here is worthy of that roll, even with a coalition government they couldn't 'run' a bath, maybe a blood bath, or a bath of shit!, its those politicians looking down, its the doctor that looks puzzled by your symptoms and perscribes a drug that neither of you has a clue about, its the banker who lost your money, and would you believe that for all their airs and titles, the power they take upon themselves with their swish accents and super cars, that they are thicker than most guys you meet down the pub? yes its true, you can educate someone till they're big and fat and behind a desk in a skyscraper that reaches the moon, but they'll still be dense as a concrete slab, and slotted in next to the other bricks and cemented together with the other mashed up bits of the human race that gave up thinking probably from reading newspapers.
So no I dont read news papers! and I'm not swayed by the colourful text, or the more 'liberal' papers (whatever that means, and I know they dont mean it like 'the sun' does) so now when people ask 'why?' and think im ignorant (which I'm sure I am) I can redirect them to my blog about news papers.
One thing for sure is I got alot more time to think about other things...
I stopped reading news papers years ago, when I realised that reading bad stories with bad literature bores the shit out of me, when I realised my eyes where being diverted from what was really going on in my own back garden, when I realised that I was being lied to by the media... or the government... or both! when I got sick of being brain washed by their advertisement, when my girlfriend read you can get cancer from burnt toast (as if living in London wouldn't equate to one of the worst things for your health?), when I could see it was feeding me fear and turning me inside out and round on myself till I didnt know what to think. Till I feared not only the last trusted peoples of our endangered society like the teachers that prey on children to the hooded knife carrying children themselves, but finally myself and what a madman I am and how they should take away my rights so as not to harm myself and others!
These days im out the loop, I hear the roomers, the second hand gosip (all papers are is official gosip really), i'm a satalite orbiting the fringes of this world, like hubble tearing across space at 18000 miles and hour, im told I can keep up with the world if I only read a paper, but this old world needs to keep up with me. I hear the weeks frenzied news where we either gotta give to someone or take from someone else, like anyone here is worthy of that roll, even with a coalition government they couldn't 'run' a bath, maybe a blood bath, or a bath of shit!, its those politicians looking down, its the doctor that looks puzzled by your symptoms and perscribes a drug that neither of you has a clue about, its the banker who lost your money, and would you believe that for all their airs and titles, the power they take upon themselves with their swish accents and super cars, that they are thicker than most guys you meet down the pub? yes its true, you can educate someone till they're big and fat and behind a desk in a skyscraper that reaches the moon, but they'll still be dense as a concrete slab, and slotted in next to the other bricks and cemented together with the other mashed up bits of the human race that gave up thinking probably from reading newspapers.
So no I dont read news papers! and I'm not swayed by the colourful text, or the more 'liberal' papers (whatever that means, and I know they dont mean it like 'the sun' does) so now when people ask 'why?' and think im ignorant (which I'm sure I am) I can redirect them to my blog about news papers.
One thing for sure is I got alot more time to think about other things...
Monday 4 April 2011
Fatotum
If you read anything by him, books or poems or short stories you're sure to love it.
Two movies... Barfly and Factotum both are great, but factotum is really awesome, in every Bukowski lowlife way, I never read anything as real as how he can put things down in words.
It ends on this beautiful note:
'If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.'
Thursday 31 March 2011
mental notes of my day today...
I lost faith in humanity today... a girl I know told me that when they issued a warning in New Zeeland about the possibility of a tsunami coming their way, that people actually travelled out to the coast in the droves to view the wave!
Faith restored... I saw an old mate that I managed to upset, along with his entire work place, with some comments I posted online about 'restaurant bill paying etiquette', and he desided to walk with me to where I was going because I think he actually likes me still.
I lost faith in humanity today... I watched some city worker twats give money to a homeless guy, and started drunkenly asking him questions about being cold loudly in the underground for all to hear, they love the power that gives them, ah, those fucking suited smug faces!
Faith restored... the man in the cafe asked my mate where his tattoo was from, he said 'India', the man said 'you dont look Indian', I said that he should see him with a turban on! My mate laughed... good bloke.
I lost faith in humanity today... I put an add up to rent my room out EXPLAINING that it was not including bills, and lots of people called me up and were disappointed it wasn't including bills, and its ONLY 300 quid a week!
Faith restored... my bandmate Fisher's girlfriend made him a cake like a fish!
Faith restored... I saw an old mate that I managed to upset, along with his entire work place, with some comments I posted online about 'restaurant bill paying etiquette', and he desided to walk with me to where I was going because I think he actually likes me still.
I lost faith in humanity today... I watched some city worker twats give money to a homeless guy, and started drunkenly asking him questions about being cold loudly in the underground for all to hear, they love the power that gives them, ah, those fucking suited smug faces!
Faith restored... the man in the cafe asked my mate where his tattoo was from, he said 'India', the man said 'you dont look Indian', I said that he should see him with a turban on! My mate laughed... good bloke.
I lost faith in humanity today... I put an add up to rent my room out EXPLAINING that it was not including bills, and lots of people called me up and were disappointed it wasn't including bills, and its ONLY 300 quid a week!
Faith restored... my bandmate Fisher's girlfriend made him a cake like a fish!
A thought...
I've no idea who reads these, but i know someone is, so im starting to think i might put down some thoughts and ideas i have now and then.
Only this was on my mind this morning, its something chris had said in rehearsals last night.
We had our usual feast beforehand, which left hardly time to rehearse, but never mind.
I'd had a few wines with the meal and had to cut chris's hair (I cut hair if you didn't know).
He was telling me a story about a gay friend of his that was once dating this deaf guy... well suposedly this guy had to jot down on pen and paper each sexual move he wanted to perform and agree on it be for he carried it out!
It just seemed so odd to me, why couldn't he just get on with it? or do hand jestures? or even say it? was he mute?
I dont even know if this story is real.
Only this was on my mind this morning, its something chris had said in rehearsals last night.
We had our usual feast beforehand, which left hardly time to rehearse, but never mind.
I'd had a few wines with the meal and had to cut chris's hair (I cut hair if you didn't know).
He was telling me a story about a gay friend of his that was once dating this deaf guy... well suposedly this guy had to jot down on pen and paper each sexual move he wanted to perform and agree on it be for he carried it out!
It just seemed so odd to me, why couldn't he just get on with it? or do hand jestures? or even say it? was he mute?
I dont even know if this story is real.
Wednesday 30 March 2011
Elbow at the O2
Now there are things you need to know about this band to me... I love them, always have.
I've seen them 5 times over about 9 or 10 years, from a half sold out gig at Southampton uni, and an acoustic gig in stockholm, the pyramids in Portsmouth, and all the way to Wembley and now the O2 arena.
I was reluctant to go I must admit, the idea of seeing anyone at the O2 is a turn off to me, and like most music snobs the thought of kids talking, fat women in way to small band t-shirts and familys with huge foam hands all clapping and merry is sickening.
However, I was enthralled, and I joined in heartily which may not be very cool to admit but I dont really care.
I really think Guy Garvey is amazing at building the bridge between fans and band, a hard task when you're in an arena of 10,000 people!
And still writing cracking songs... amazing sound and lights and I was happily sat down with a beer in my hand throughout.
It was truely the best I've seen them without a doubt, they have become one of the majors.
I've seen them 5 times over about 9 or 10 years, from a half sold out gig at Southampton uni, and an acoustic gig in stockholm, the pyramids in Portsmouth, and all the way to Wembley and now the O2 arena.
I was reluctant to go I must admit, the idea of seeing anyone at the O2 is a turn off to me, and like most music snobs the thought of kids talking, fat women in way to small band t-shirts and familys with huge foam hands all clapping and merry is sickening. However, I was enthralled, and I joined in heartily which may not be very cool to admit but I dont really care.
I really think Guy Garvey is amazing at building the bridge between fans and band, a hard task when you're in an arena of 10,000 people!
And still writing cracking songs... amazing sound and lights and I was happily sat down with a beer in my hand throughout.
It was truely the best I've seen them without a doubt, they have become one of the majors.
Saturday 26 March 2011
First days of spring
I was thinking in the week, as you do while looking out to the street with the sun making everything glow and turn serene, making you feel suddenly awake, about what the perfect songs to listen to would be and here is my instant list i wrote down and thought id share:
1. Jimi Hendrix, The wind cries Mary
2. Sparkle Horse, More yellow birds
3. Sebastian Tellier, La routinelle
4. Van Morrison, Sweet thing
5. The Isley Brothers, Summer breeze (cheese but class)
6. Beach Boys, The warmth of the sun (or anything by the Beach boys!)
7. Madrugada, Majesty
8. Beirut, Postcards from Italy
9. Dr. John, Such a night
10. The Flaming Lips, The spark that bled
Enjoy the sun everyone!
1. Jimi Hendrix, The wind cries Mary
2. Sparkle Horse, More yellow birds
3. Sebastian Tellier, La routinelle
4. Van Morrison, Sweet thing
5. The Isley Brothers, Summer breeze (cheese but class)
6. Beach Boys, The warmth of the sun (or anything by the Beach boys!)
7. Madrugada, Majesty
8. Beirut, Postcards from Italy
9. Dr. John, Such a night
10. The Flaming Lips, The spark that bled
Enjoy the sun everyone!
Thursday 24 March 2011
Lord I Tried
Lord I Tried by David Moore and the Oars
So this is the last of the songs from the album to go up.
Its a song that was completely over loaded with instruments, and then was stripped back to its simplicity thanks to Sue wanting to keep the song as close to its original state.
It was first laid down as a demo just piano and vocal so thats how we began for the first part of the track and gradually adding the pieces.
Its pretty vulnerable in lyrics and I personally liked the way the song takes you on a journey.
Hope you enjoy...
So this is the last of the songs from the album to go up.
Its a song that was completely over loaded with instruments, and then was stripped back to its simplicity thanks to Sue wanting to keep the song as close to its original state.
It was first laid down as a demo just piano and vocal so thats how we began for the first part of the track and gradually adding the pieces.
Its pretty vulnerable in lyrics and I personally liked the way the song takes you on a journey.
Hope you enjoy...
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Listening to...
Im currently listening to Abigail Washburn 'City of refuge', the song 'Dreams of nectar' really stands out, its has mixes of folk, blue grass, gospel and country in there, which im all for.
There are moments of real quality in it, and very thought out production, not sold on it all, but i just started listening...
There are moments of real quality in it, and very thought out production, not sold on it all, but i just started listening...
Monday 21 March 2011
Walden
I was asked by a woman today how it felt to have recorded my album.
I told her that it was so great to finally get those songs out of my system, they weigh around your neck till they're finished off, not that I hate them, its very much the opposite.
In a good way waiting gives you time to think about what you really want to say to the world with your music, and often enough I alter them as I go.
This made me think of a quote by 'Henry David Thoreau' in his book 'Walden' one of my favourate books I recently read, he wrote: 'Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden
I told her that it was so great to finally get those songs out of my system, they weigh around your neck till they're finished off, not that I hate them, its very much the opposite.
In a good way waiting gives you time to think about what you really want to say to the world with your music, and often enough I alter them as I go.
This made me think of a quote by 'Henry David Thoreau' in his book 'Walden' one of my favourate books I recently read, he wrote: 'Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden
Web site baby!
So theres a new web page up guys:
davidmooreandtheoars.com
Check it out, thanx to Rob Boynes' designs and Phil Westburys expert knowledge as a programmer im now a proud owner of a web site, looks pretty sharp and there is alot more to come with videos and gigs etc...
Laters all...
davidmooreandtheoars.com
Check it out, thanx to Rob Boynes' designs and Phil Westburys expert knowledge as a programmer im now a proud owner of a web site, looks pretty sharp and there is alot more to come with videos and gigs etc...
Laters all...
Thursday 17 March 2011
Summer
Hey all
So, after a 15 hour session in the studio at London Bridge with Sue and Laurence i think we are all exhausted.
It seems we are pretty much done for now until the rest of the album comes to be mastered, but the tracks are sounding lovely, with a new one 'lord I tried' coming in about a weeks time so make sure you check it out.
Summer is a fairly obvious and instant track and always has been, and i never like to give away to much about my songs, but this one definately came from that possitive place we all find draws us in to London. Funny how it feels west coast in a way, maybe that trip to California rubbed off on me. I hope you enjoy it to.
Friday 11 March 2011
The Peanut factory
Its typical for the area, most of us know them for there rough round the edges, should be uninhabitable charm, yet we love to go to them.
We love the freedoms that come with it, and for those of you that are a tight bastard, its a cheap night out.
Great gig, good music and lovely people.
I think you could feel that spring is here, a sense of optimisum in the air where people go out on saturday to embrace something rather than hide away from the dank and cold winter that seemed to go on and on.
The first gig of many to come!
Monday 7 March 2011
All Of My Days
All Of My Days by David Moore and the Oars
Hey all
Check out this track, it was recorded in the dead of night in Sweden in the cold and snow in January, with all of us drinking too much rum, and at the end of an intense week recording and just verging on having to drive Cristiano to the airport.
Cristiano (my Italian gypsy friend on drums) hushed us all quiet and told us to imagine ourselves at a funeral procession walking down a dark street with each of us carrying the corners of the coffin...
With the room silent the song began to hum on the harmonium and we just laid the track down in one take and in the end we all got up, packed up and took Cristiano to the airport to say goodbye after our week of magic recording the album together.
That was the last time i saw him, and this memory makes me miss him alot, he's touring with a circus somewhere in Europe now, hope we get to play together again sometime mate.
Hey all
Check out this track, it was recorded in the dead of night in Sweden in the cold and snow in January, with all of us drinking too much rum, and at the end of an intense week recording and just verging on having to drive Cristiano to the airport.
Cristiano (my Italian gypsy friend on drums) hushed us all quiet and told us to imagine ourselves at a funeral procession walking down a dark street with each of us carrying the corners of the coffin...
That was the last time i saw him, and this memory makes me miss him alot, he's touring with a circus somewhere in Europe now, hope we get to play together again sometime mate.
Sunday 6 March 2011
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
As alot of people did (in England it seems anyway) I missed out on daniel johnston, and my initial reaction to his music was not a good one.
But a cover by Nina Persons from 'the Cardigans' solo band 'A camp' of the song 'walking the cow' turned me on to his music.
If you can sift through the endless work he has made you might find things you really like, and i love 'somethings last along time', its really a moving song, and seeing the film just adds more emphasis to the lyrics.
But be warned, alot of it is very off the wall and disconnected, and in some cases you cant imagine how this guy ever made anything audible.
Its a clear insight into the troubled mind of Daniel like so many before him, yet there is something so pure and innocent about it all...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJZOe65eA4Y
But a cover by Nina Persons from 'the Cardigans' solo band 'A camp' of the song 'walking the cow' turned me on to his music.
If you can sift through the endless work he has made you might find things you really like, and i love 'somethings last along time', its really a moving song, and seeing the film just adds more emphasis to the lyrics.
But be warned, alot of it is very off the wall and disconnected, and in some cases you cant imagine how this guy ever made anything audible.
Its a clear insight into the troubled mind of Daniel like so many before him, yet there is something so pure and innocent about it all...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJZOe65eA4Y
Thursday 3 March 2011
Blogotheque
Check out this site, there are huge archives of bands playing unplugged all over the place, it so refreshing.
Personal favourates are 'Arcade fire' in a lift and 'the plastics revolution' on a boat with a mariachi band. Oh and cant forget the local natives video, its in a shopping centre somewhere... class
http://www.blogotheque.net/spip.php?page=cae_all&lang=fr
Personal favourates are 'Arcade fire' in a lift and 'the plastics revolution' on a boat with a mariachi band. Oh and cant forget the local natives video, its in a shopping centre somewhere... class
http://www.blogotheque.net/spip.php?page=cae_all&lang=fr
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Harmonium
very gypsy.
I found it in a music shop in Camden, well worth the expense.
Saturday 26 February 2011
In the begining
So this is the end of the begining
The album made and video on its way along with the web page.
Lots install, like the upcoming gig saturday 5th march in a warehouse space in Hackney Wick
We're gonna do a strip back version of the tracks and ill be playing my harmonium...
The album made and video on its way along with the web page.
Lots install, like the upcoming gig saturday 5th march in a warehouse space in Hackney Wick
We're gonna do a strip back version of the tracks and ill be playing my harmonium...
Friday 25 February 2011
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