I’m doing many gigs in various flavours over the coming months. Get ready to click the dates for ticket links:
UNRAVEL
#Unravel is an interactive musical installation that I’m presently working on with the guys from FOUND. You can read about it here. There are no plans for gigs yet, but I’ll be reading some of the ten short stories – all of which have multiple variations – and chatting (!) about the project here:
January 26th, Inspace Edinburgh (Free Entry)
RM HUBBERT
I sing a song on his new album, Thirteen Lost & Found, and will be performing with him at his launch shows in Glasgow and London:
January 27th, Stereo, Glasgow
February 3rd, King’s Place, London
AIDAN JOHN MOFFAT
A wee solo show for The Quietus‘s very own Klub Gutenberg (info here):
February 8th, The Old Queen’s Head, Islington
BILL WELLS & AIDAN MOFFAT
And the rest of the year will see more gigs from Bill Wells & Yours Truly, starting with a very special, one-off, thirty-minute, stripped back piano and vocal (and possibly a hint of trumpet) show:
February 25th, Margins Festival, The Arches, Glasgow
And then it’s UK Tour Time! (Four-piece band for these).
March 27th, Cambridge, Portland Arms
March 28th, Norwich, Arts Centre
March 29th, Cardiff, The Globe
March 30th, Dublin, The Grand Social
March 31st, Sheffield, Queens Social
April 1st, Nottingham, Glee Club
April 2nd, Gateshead, The Sage
April 3rd, Leeds, Brudenell
April 4th, York, The Duchess
Support on all these dates comes from the aforementioned RM Hubbert.
Phew.
And there are more to be announced soon!
The Cruel Summer EP by Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat (hello) has three tracks: a cover of Bananarama’s Cruel Summer; a new, slightly sad yet life-affirming love song named Box It Up; and a seasonal, Hallowe’en-themed, 8-minute erotic short story called Man Of The Cloth. It will be available digitally from the usual outlets, but the CD version also has an extra track called Lonely Weekend, which features me pottering about the flat, bored out of my mind on my own, listing all the things that make me feel lonely. And a horn section. We would have loved to make a vinyl version but we soon realised that carting hundreds of 12” singles round Europe in a tour van was sheer folly, and they would most likely be destroyed in transit. It’s much easier this way, and they also fit snugly into your pocket on the way home from the gig. It makes sense when you think about it, and nobody’s making CD singles anymore, so what better reason to do one now? It is, of course, also be available in your local, cherished record shop, or you can order it from Chemikal Underground by clicking right here.
And there’s a new video for Cruel Summer by Paul Fegan, the man who made The Copper Top film for us earlier this year. Here you go:
‘Stolen Songs’ is Aidan John Moffat’s new covers album, available directly through him OH FUCK THIS WHO AM I TRYING TO KID? ‘Stolen Songs’ is MY new covers album, available directly through ME via Bandcamp. There’s no point trying to pretend someone else updates this site anymore, there’s just me, which is why it doesn’t get updated half as much as it should. Anyway, the album features covers of songs originally immortalised by Cyndi Lauper, Katie Melua, INXS, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Doris Duke, Marvin Gaye, The Kids From Fame, and it also has me reciting an E E Cummings poem (if anyone fancies being pedantic about the uppercase letters in his name, you’re wrong – he rarely used lowercase himself). There’s even a bit of Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson tucked away in the middle too. You can listen to – and BUY! – the album here:
http://aidanjohnmoffat.bandcamp.com/album/stolen-songs
‘The Copper Top’ by Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat from Chemikal Underground on Vimeo.
Aidan has supplied a few goodies for Drowned In Sound – HAVE A LOOK!
And he’s also reviewed the Katy Perry show and supplied a DJ mix for The Quietus. And they’ve been hosting an exclusive stream of album track ‘Glasgow Jubilee’ too!