#17: Chris Newman & Miss Moth

Friday, October 8th, 2010, 24:00 | 12 p.m.
BABYLON, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, big cinema hall
(Eintritt frei | admission free)

Study No. 1 (1983) - 11:07 

Easy Piece 5 (2010) - 23:55 

Superimposed Sad (2009) - 3:14 

Small Limp Unit (2009) - 23:34 

3 Rock Videos No. 3 (1987) - 5:21 

Everything I See In London (1984) - 0:58 

Mini-Zone (2010) - 1:25

The videos & songs (live!) presented tonight both date either from the mid-1980s or from the last couple of years (or months). They are existential in nature and have to do with making specific the phenomenon of the act of perception. The songs are performed by Miss Moth in their first public Berlin performance

Bill Dietz, piano | Chris Newman, voice | Seth Josel, electric & bass guitar

Chris Newman is one of Britain's great all-round artistic talents, famous for his outrageous songs, but just as important for his radical take on composition and for his work in the visual arts such as painting and video. Although working in different mediums, he treats each with the same basic approach. Born in London, Chris Newman has lived in Cologne, Paris and is now resident in Berlin.

wikipedia: Chris Newman

MISS MOTH is informed by New Wave & Post Punk, but also classical music such as Schubert, Hugo Wolf and literary issues.Rather than eclectic, the songs are a meltdown of material and loves, using personal, but not private, existential words that extend the every day, pushing into the surreal.
Some of the songs were written in the 80's in the band "Janet Smith" but they have been more than rearranged, now they have a fresh and hard edged contour.