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...

Summer

Summer by David Moore and the Oars

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.

The Peanut factory

The Peanut factory is a ware house space in Hackney Wick.
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!

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.

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

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

Harmonium

Check out my new harmonium here, its beautiful, and sounds amazing, there is something so wonderful about these old instruments, electric free, and raw.
very gypsy.
I found it in a music shop in Camden, well worth the expense.