Moulettes & Nizlopi

Many Moulettes met and started playing music together when they were 15-17. After a couple of EPs and singles they released an acclaimed debut album on Balling The Jack/Sotones in 2010, which found its way on to several Best Of The Year lists. They also won an Innovation Award and best group from the prestigious Fatea roots-music website and got nominated for best band by the alternative Brit awards. Their charismatic, idiosyncratic yet poppy brand of  progressive, psychedelic neo-classical folk rock has enthralled crowds at many festivals as varied as Bestival, Glastonbury, End of the Road and Cropredy.

Now  Moulettes return with their third studio album, and their first for Navigator Records, ‘Constellations’

At the age of thirteen, bass player John Parker and singer Luke Concannon met on the school bus. They became good friends, and sat in a room for hours after school, playing and writing songs. They evolved in to the duo ‘Nizlopi’. Their difficulties at school, later inspiring their number one hit, ‘The JCB Song’.

Nizlopi wrote and performed enthusiastically, and by 2001 were touring the country promoting their first album, Half These Songs Are About You. By now John was playing the double bass, and human beat boxing at the same time, making him an extraordinary one-man band, and Luke was playing the acoustic guitar. Nizlopi had one foot in the Irish folk sessions they had played in since childhood, and the other in their love for contemporary music, much of it black music (Jazz, Soul, Gospel, Ska, and Hip-hop)

A cottage industry grew around them to act as a record label; a full-time indie run from the spare room. The freedom of being on their own label suited Nizlopi very well, and they later turned down offers from major labels in order to stay true to their music, and ethics. They were an underground, activist, soul/folk/hip-hop act, playing some exquisite gigs around the country!

In 2005 Nizlopi released ‘The JCB song’, a unique Father-and-Son song. Helped by the poignant online video, the single became a hit! Suddenly this humble duo blew up to be a prime-time television “pop” act, playing in the Wembley arena, touring Europe, and becoming a million-record-selling success.