Album review: Moby - 'Wait For Me'
Once you’ve sold out, can you ever buy back in? The story around ‘Wait For Me’ is that techno’s very own Mr Advertisment Break is returning to his roots, recording on lo-tech tools with anonymous vocalists from his New York neighbourhood...
Moby : Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)
Another month, another monotonous, soul-sampling dirge from the world’s most odious vegan midget. Moby needs a radical change of direction if he wants to be anything more than a soundtracking laughing stock. But the simple solution in the...
Moby : Extreme Ways
And so Moby ’s multi-faceted weirdness continues apace. This month, is he going to be Gary Numan without (quite literally) the hair? The studied techno-rock boffin we all know and love from a thousand adverts and ‘funky’ office receptions...
Moby : Area:2 Festival: Toronto Molson Ampitheater
Last year Moby was at the top of his electronically chart-crushing crossover game when he helped put together the continent-crossing Area One Festival. The bald one's small stature notwithstanding, 'Play''s ambient blues easily dwarfed the likes...
Moby : 18
Ooh lordy, trouble's so hard when you've just sold 10 million copies of an album that was recorded for $250,000. When 'Play' was released in 1999, it seemed like merely the latest experiment in an eccentrically genre-hopping career which had...
Moby : We Are All Made Of Stars
Mr Clothes Shop Music 2000 returns secure in the knowledge that now his 'Play' album is piped into every fitting room in every retail outlet in every country, he can now do whatever the hell he likes. So it is, he has made a record that...
Area:One : Atlanta HiFi Buys Amphitheater
Area:One - not a very appropriate name for a music festival. Because this Area:One - actually named after a legendary '80s New York nightclub and tagged "One" in hopes they make a series of it - covers a whole lot of areas. The Atlanta line-up...
KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas: Burbank...
The word acoustic, as applied to KROQ's annual Almost Acoustic Christmas concert is largely ornamental and can be replaced with just about any word you like better, such as orangutan or peristalsis. After the first few sets have gone by, it...
London Wembley Arena
A barrage of green lasers arcing across the expanse of Wembley Arena ushers Moby onstage, to the strains of 'My Weakness', the closing instrumental from 'Play'. The crowd, a strange mix of hardened contemporary clubbers and middle-aged ex-ravers,...
San Francisco Warfield Theatre
It has to be said that Rob Fleming , the main character in hit movie 'High Fidelity' , is only half right when he says it's not what you're like, but what you like. It's also about who likes what you like. Moby's solid but unspectacular...
