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THE BIG TAKEOVER presents MOAT’s GONE BY NOON

THE BIG TAKEOVER presents MOAT’s GONE BY NOON.

The MOAT project is releasing a taster from the upcoming album, POISON STREAM (to be released in early 2021 through Schoolkids Records). It’s been cooked for a while but the world hasn’t allowed us to open the oven door until now when the aroma proved too much and now it sits on the kitchen table waiting to be consumed.

GONE BY NOON has been described as “Catchy harpsichord-induced melancholia by a protagonist juggling the aftermath of loss and betrayal”. It will be available from the 9th September 2020 through all your favourite platforms but you can hear it first and exclusively via THE BIG TAKEOVER magazine right now, click here.

Credits

Niko Röhlcke – acoustic guitar, keyboards
Marty Willson-Piper – lead vocal, bass
Olivia Willson-Piper – backing vocals
Dare Mason – additional keyboards
Eddie John – drums

Written by MARTY WILLSON-PIPER & NIKO RÖHLCKE
Produced by DARE MASON, MARTY WILLSON-PIPER & NIKO RÖHLCKE
Engineered, recorded and mixed by DARE MASON
at the VIP Lounge, Penzance, England
Mastered by POPPY WEINBERGER for Riverfish Mastering
Artwork by OLIVIA WILLSON-PIPER
Lyrics by MARTY WILLSON-PIPER

Lyrics

The blood on your lips
Drips, red honey slips into a pool
The lies that you tell
Corrupt my heart
Infect my soul

Silence spills like a wave in the dark
The films you play
Black and white
A final scene – crying
And you’re gone

The shock in your eyes
Lies, the wailing cries
Of a tragic fool
Your game hides the truth
Dice, playing cards
Mirrored in the roof

You cheat with the best
When you’re caught you’re aloof
An avalanche
That seals
A silent shroud
The noise has gone
All that’s left – speechless
An empty shell

Love’s last tears
Have fallen down
From your cheek
The loaded words
Ricochet
Around the room
Exotic birds
Against the glass – goodbye
Gone By Noon

Bandcamp to waive their revenue share on all sales this Friday, March 20

Hey All!

Bandcamp are waiving their commission fees for one day only, kindly giving us musicians the chance to take advantage of a direct income source. So, 100% of the income will go to us. But, it’s specifically from Midnight Pacific time USA for 24 hours only (from 3AM New York / 7AM London / 6PM Sydney).

We have just added Noctorum’s Afterdeath EP for download. You can also download all four Noctorum albums, Seeing Stars and solo records, check it out to see what’s available. On the physical, we have also added some t-shirts and MOAT’s first album on vinyl (with free CD) and some In Deep tote bags. In Deep and Afterlife t-shirts have very limited sizes (all small and just one dbl XL), but we do have a range of Noctorum Honey Mink Forever t-shirts. Yay!

You can also get my entire discography for 50% off, so have a browse and thanks for all your support! Anything you want autographed, just ask. Stay safe out there! 

MWP

www.martywillsonpiper.bandcamp.com

FIRST LIVESTREAM 🎥

Marty Willson-Piper

Tomorrow, Friday, February 14th, Valentine’s Day 💋, our 14th show of the tour will be livestreamed through our YouTube channel.

Here’s the link.

Streaming Times:

NEW ZEALAND – 15th February, 9:30AM
SYDNEY – 15th February, 7:30AM
ADELAIDE – 15th February, 7:00AM
PERTH – 15th February, 4:30AM
UNITED KINGDOM – 14th February, 8:30PM
CENTRAL EUROPE – 14th February, 21:30
EASTERN TIME – 14th February, 3:30PM
CENTRAL TIME – 14th February, 2:30PM
MOUNTAIN TIME – 14th February, 1:30PM
PACIFIC TIME – 14th February, 12:30PM

These will be the final shows of our European tour:

Düsseldorf – The Tube, 14th February
Königswinter – The House, 15th February
Wuppertal – Kontakthof, 16th February

Thanks for all your support at the shows, through the tour blog and with general encouragement, stay tuned for more show announcements. The blog will move from martyandolivia.com to this website from Tuesday, 18th February.

Rheinlanders, see you at The Tube in Düsseldorf, 9:30PM on Friday!

MWP

WELCOME TO 2020

Marty and Olivia Willson-Piper Acoustic Winter Tour 2020

As we recover from Christmas myths and find ourselves careering towards the reality of January, it seems like not much has changed since last year. The tragedy of the Australian fires and the toll on people, communities, whole towns destroyed and the desecration of wild life. The climate crisis seems to be melting its truth on everyone except those in power. Trump is up to his old tricks, war with Iran a possibility, the downing of commercial airlines, the murder of the innocents. Hong Kong still in turmoil, knife crime in London and then all those terrible things that are happening everywhere that seem to be forgotten after the initial burst of outrage. We don’t seem to have heard about the Kurds for a while, the Palestine/Israel conflict, Syria. Imagine all the tragedies that don’t make the news.

In my head I wonder about my own world and try to keep my attention on music, the different projects, the writing, the singing, the playing, the touring, the online sessions, the In Deep Music Archive and I mourn the loss of others who dedicated their life to musical endeavours. In 2019 we lost Ginger Baker, Ric Ocasek, Hal Blaine, Eddie Money, Peter Tork, Dr. John, Paul Whaley from Blue Cheer, Ted McKenna from The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, Mark Hollis, Keith Flint, Dick Dale, Bernie Tormé, Scott Walker, Paul Raymond from UFO, Leon Redbone, Roky Ericsson, Art Neville, Canned Heat’s bass player Larry Taylor, Neil Casal, Larry Wallis, Paul Barrere from Little Feat, George Chambers from The Chambers Brothers, Neil Innes and many many more whose records I may not have owned. In the last couple of days we lost Neil Peart.

All this death and destruction but we have to carry on and deal with the loss of our heroes and as we get older the reality of losing our friends or family becomes inevitable. Hopefully new life will spring up, the causers of harm will see the error of their ways and the future will still be there. The legacy of those that have gone before us endures. My year is already jam packed with adventure and positivity and Olivia and I will be sending out all kinds of colourful messages, drawing attention to what we are up to. The year begins with a European tour (dates below), everything else that’s happening we’ll post in the coming weeks and months.

Thanks to everyone for constant support and encouragement, see you out there with our violins and our 12 string guitars, our songs and our lyrics, our melodies and our anecdotes – can’t wait.

MWP