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# Moriarty

Official website of the band Moriarty

## Sitemaps

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## Articles

- [Telegrams](https://moriartyland.net/telegrams/) - Some news.
- [#EPIPHANY digging in the dirt...](https://moriartyland.net/digging-in-the-dirt/) - burying songs for #Moriartytheband's new enigma-album #Epiphany
- [#EPIPHANY The first discovery](https://moriartyland.net/the-first-discovery/) - The box hidden behind "Diamonds Never Die" was the first one to be found...
- [Pleyel 24.10.2017](https://moriartyland.net/pleyel-24-10-2017/) - Back on stage, after a two-year break.
- [Release](https://moriartyland.net/release/) - The Missing Room will be released in France, Belgium, Switzerland on April 26th 2011
- [The Missing Room live at 104 Paris](https://moriartyland.net/the-missing-room-live-at-104-paris/) - Riding the merry-go-round... Moriarty plays a few songs from The Missing Room.
- [Moriarty at Fargo Records](https://moriartyland.net/692/) - Moriarty at Fargo Records Store, acoustic sessions with mozzarella di buffala, 30.04.11
- [Moriarty @ Printemps de Bourges](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-printemps-de-bourges-2/) - Backstage before the show
- [Helvetica](https://moriartyland.net/helvetica/) - Switzerland here we come ! (you can hear Moriarty live in Geneva & Lausanne on radio Couleur 3 at 5pm and on RSR at 7pm tonight)
- [Isabella: the aftermath](https://moriartyland.net/isabella-the-aftermath/) - you forgot all that you left behind.
- [Isabella film shoot](https://moriartyland.net/isabella-film-shoot/) - Just finished shooting the video for Isabella, smoothly directed by Fred Poulet and his super 16mm camera crew, with the help of about forty volunteering extras and three actresses... Fueled by ginger beer, almonds and cherries. Thanks everybody for patience and dedication!
- [Moriarty on tour in Brussels](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-on-tour-in-brussels/) - Moriarty In Brussels !!! Acoustic show, Cook & Book bookstore, Woluwe, 5pm. Electric show, Cirque Royal (Nuits Botaniques) 10pm.
- [The Missing Room tour: Next stop Brussels](https://moriartyland.net/the-missing-room-tour-next-stop-brussels/)
- [Coteaux du Layon](https://moriartyland.net/coteaux-du-layon/) - Moriarty, The Missing Room Tour: playing under a circus tent tonight, with Christine Salem and her fabulous maloya band (festival villages en scène, Vihiers near Angers, France, may 14th 2011)
- [Friday the 13th](https://moriartyland.net/friday-the-13th/) - Friday the 13th, after a show at the Cooperative, we're crossing the mountains towards the west; Leaving Clermont to reach Angoulême: Moriarty's missing room tour, 13.05.11
- [Training for the next shows](https://moriartyland.net/training-for-the-next-shows/)
- [Bird of prey](https://moriartyland.net/bird-of-prey/) - Old Jimmy Moriarty catching an eagle
- [The Missing Room Tour: Montpellier](https://moriartyland.net/the-missing-room-tour-montpellier/) - Moriarty on tour: Montpellier. Acoustic show, librairie Sauramps 5:30pm / Electric show, Rockstore 9pm.
- [Concert acoustique à la librairie Mollat, Bordeaux 04.05.11](https://moriartyland.net/concert-acoustique-a-la-librairie-mollat-bordeaux-04-05-11/) - Fully acoustic gig in front of a few hundred people, in the middle of the oldest bookstore in Bordeaux...
- [Moriarty on tour: Bordeaux 04.05.11](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-on-tour-bordeaux-04-05-11/) - Moriarty on tour in Bordeaux tonight. Acoustic show: librairie Mollat at 18:00. Electric show: Krakatoa Mérignac at 22:00.
- [Moriarty live on TV tonight](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-live-on-tv-tonight/) - Moriarty will perform live on France 3 ("ce soir ou jamais") tonight at 23:55.
- [Moriarty live on The radio tonight](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-live-on-the-radio-tonight/) - Moriarty will be performing live tonight on Europe 1 (104.7fm) at 20h55 & 21h25, and on France Inter (87.8fm) at 23h15. Isabella & Julie Gold will be transformed into electro-magnetic waves and sent almost instantaneously across the sky.
- [Spa](https://moriartyland.net/spa/) - A train station that looks like a gigantic skeleton. Mine shafts and black metal industries along an abandoned river. A festival in a park dotted with art nouveau pavilions, remnants of a past glory. Hot waters spring from the earth, cold waters pour from the skies. For a few minutes the music seems to hold
- [Paleo](https://moriartyland.net/paleo/) - Moriarty on tour: Paleofestival, Nyon (Switzerland) July 23rd, 2011.
- [Hôtel de Ville](https://moriartyland.net/850/) - Moriarty's Missing Room tour: Paris, Parvis de l'Hôtel de Ville, July 21st 2011.
- [Down south II](https://moriartyland.net/down-south-ii/) - Moriarty's Missing Room tour: Charlie playing solos in an olive tree, mistral wind blowing on stage, a cat named Petrus, heard through the grapevines. Mas des Escaravatiers, July 2011.
- [Down South](https://moriartyland.net/down-south/) - Playing tonight in the middle of the grapevines. Moriarty's Missing Room tour, Mas des Escaravatiers, Puget, France, July 18th 2011.
- [Nuits de Fourvière II](https://moriartyland.net/nuits-de-fourviere-ii/) - The amphitheater felt like a great curved wall made of people. Then the Villagers from Dublin, Ireland and finally Beirut took on the stage... Moriarty's Missing Room tour, Lyon, July 18th, 2011.
- [Nuits de Fourvière](https://moriartyland.net/nuits-de-fourviere/) - The perfect theatre. Moriarty's Missing Room tour, Lyon, july 18th 2011
- [Chauffer dans la noirceur](https://moriartyland.net/chauffer-dans-la-noirceur/) - Chauffer dans la noirceur = conduire dans la nuit. (Bastille day under a full moon and next to the Normandy shore, far away from the national military parades). Moriarty's Missing Room tour, July 14th, 2011.
- [Highway to Normandy](https://moriartyland.net/highway/) - Moriarty on the road: festival Chauffer dans la noirceur, 07.2011
- [Sitting at the edge of the lake](https://moriartyland.net/sitting-at-the-edge-of-the-lake/) - We came in on a bright afternoon and the sun bounced off the surface of the Leman. In the distance Switzerland glimmered in the haze. They took us backstage to a big castle overlooking the site and everybody gasped in awe but in the end we found the dressing rooms behind the building, in the
- [Crossing borders](https://moriartyland.net/crossing-borders/) - Somewhere between Switzerland and France, on the road to a festival in Thonon, at the edge of the Leman.
- [Terres du Son](https://moriartyland.net/terres-du-son/) - Summer festivals with a little bit of rain...
- [Eurockéennes 2011](https://moriartyland.net/eurockeennes-2011/) - Moriarty on tour: Eurockéennes de Belfort, July 3rd 2011.
- [Sunrise](https://moriartyland.net/sunrise/) - Woke up at 4a.m. for a sunrise concert, live on radio France Culture.
- [The Missing Room](https://moriartyland.net/the-missing-room/) - Sometimes you wake up in a hotel room that makes no sense.
- [Solidays 2011 part II](https://moriartyland.net/solidays-2011-part-ii/) - Heat.
- [Berliner tour](https://moriartyland.net/berliner-tour/) - Moriarty on tour in Berlin, June 2011: after playing for the Fête de la Musique in Paris we tried to catch an hour of sleep, drove to the airport and hopped on a tiny airplane around 5am and took off for Berlin as the sun rose... We fell into a deep ten-thousand feet-high sleep and
- [Solidays 2011](https://moriartyland.net/solidays-2011/) - High heels on a horsetrack: Solidays 2011
- [Moriarty back in Berlin](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-back-in-berlin/) - The Lido, Kreuzberg.
- [Solstice](https://moriartyland.net/solstice/) - Riding down the river with music
- [Gig on a boat](https://moriartyland.net/gig-on-a-boat/) - Fête de la Musique 2011: Moriarty will be playing on a riverboat tonight, 7:30pm, floating down the river (broadcast: Radio France Bleu 107.1fm in Paris) http://sites.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-bleu/?tag=iledefrance
- [No man's land](https://moriartyland.net/no-mans-land/) - Caught at a frontier station, somewhere between two borderlines
- [Envelopes II](https://moriartyland.net/envelopes-ii/) - Hand-making the special envelopes for the Missing Room's vinyl edition. Today at the Air Rytmo mini-factory, with the helpful hands of ten volunteers, we managed to finish about six hundred hand-crafted and unique pieces, that will be dispatched into the LP record sleeves in a few weeks... no robots, computers or machines were used or
- [The Missing Room(s) live in Paris](https://moriartyland.net/the-missing-rooms-live-in-paris/) - Next shows in Paris, France: The Divan du Monde on Saturday October 22 is now sold out. But we're preparing the "Missing Rooms" series in December: 5 secret acoustic concerts hidden somewhere around Paris & a concert at the Cigale on December 6th. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Prochains concerts à Paris: Le Divan du Monde (Samedi 22 Octobre)
- [Envelopes](https://moriartyland.net/envelopes/) - Air Rytmo headquarters, September 2011: Rosemary & the boys preparing the Missing Room's vinyl edition (every record will contain a unique handmade artefact, in addition to the 24-page illustrated booklet). ps: Hand-crafting these records takes a lot of time... we're always looking for volunteers to help us out! Feel free to apply at moriartyland@gmail.com!
- [Lacquer master](https://moriartyland.net/lacquer-master/) - The needle carves a groove into the shiny black lacquer surface, translating the Missing Room into a thin little spiralling line, like ripples on a petroleum lake. In the meantime a thunderstorm is brewing outside. Translab vinyl mastering studios, Paris, August 2011.
- [The sailor's song](https://moriartyland.net/the-sailors-song/) - Moriarty's Missing Room tour: the last of the summer festivals; Paimpol, August 2011.
- [Brussels summer rain](https://moriartyland.net/brussels-summer-rain/) - Place Albertine, facing the statue of a king (ça drache). Brussels Summer Festival, August 2011.
- [Zomerfest](https://moriartyland.net/zomerfest/) - On our way to Brussels, at the last minute we decided to play for a free festival hidden somewhere near the dutch border... a concert underneath a tent with a few hundred people while it rains on the fields outside. Zomerfest, Bocholt, Belgium, August 2011. < a href="http://moriartyland.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110814-031123.jpg">
- [The End of the World](https://moriartyland.net/the-end-of-the-world/) - Moriarty on tour with special guests: Mama Rosin from Geneva, Lail Arad from London, Moriba Koita, Oumou Kouyaté, Yeye Kante and Gimba from Mali : Festival du Bout du Monde, Crozon (F), August 5th, 2011.
- [Moriba & co.](https://moriartyland.net/moriba-co/) - Preparing a few songs with Moriba & friends for the Festival du Bout du Monde. Moriarty's studio, Paris, august 2011.
- [Karlsruhe](https://moriartyland.net/karlsruhe/) - Last show of the german tour: Karlsruhe, Tollhaus. A cheering & dancing crowd; some of them drove all the way from France -the border isn't too far away.
- [Köln Kulturkirche](https://moriartyland.net/koln-kulturkirche/) - Reaching the Rhein river now; Köln Cologne Colonia. The Kulturkirche a one-of-a-kind reformist temple run by the one-and-only Pfarrer Vater Thomas: one day he's celebrating the cult, the next day it's a rock concert - and we don't mean christian rock! - And it does work. The acoustics are amazing under the brick vaults, so
- [Frankfurt-am-Main](https://moriartyland.net/frankfurt-am-main/) - A train ride from Switzerland, through the haze again. In the news they say the Caimano is gone. And so in Frankfurt the low November sun shines on the towers of steel and gives an eerie american feel to the city. The Brotfabrik is on a street named Bachmannstraße... it's a sign so we decide
- [Lausanne Metropole](https://moriartyland.net/lausanne-metropole/) - Another foggy road between München and Lausanne. A woman stands hitch-hiking at the entrance of the autobahn dressed in a black XVIIth century uniform; she takes a ride in our yellow vehicle. And starts telling her strange story - and it's like Hermann Hesse's Narziß & Goldmund... She's a carpenter travelling from Hamburg, on her
- [Fog over München](https://moriartyland.net/fog-over-munchen/) - Leaving Prague... a long drive to München through Bayern all covered with blankets of white fog. The Feierwerk is an old fire station converted into a rock venue. Skaters are swarming around the place in the cold icy sunlight. Good old Ivi is there to cook heart-warming and throat-scorching soul food. An east-german skeleton found
- [Praha](https://moriartyland.net/praha/) - Moriarty in Prague, Czech Republic. After a long drive from Dortmund through bohemian hills and tiny czech villages we reach the suburbs of Praha. We say farewell to our companion Emit who has to head back to old England. Some of us get lost in Smichov looking for coldwar era czech instruments... until we find
- [Schauburg Kino, Dresden](https://moriartyland.net/schauburg-kino-dresden/) - The german tour goes on towards the eastern border: with the indomitable Emit Bloch on our side, we reach Dresden for a night at the Schauburg Cinema. The building looks somewhat rundown but the Sergio Leone projection room is warm, surrounded by the painted faces of Clint & co... the good the bad and the
- [Leipzig](https://moriartyland.net/leipzig/) - Moriarty's german tour 2011: Back at the UT Connewitz in Leipzig, the oldest surviving cinema in Germany & a place filled with ghosts dancing around humans...
- [German tour days 1&2](https://moriartyland.net/german-tour-days-12/) - Moriarty's back to Germany, starting with Bremen & Hamburg. Hectic days, interviews on Radio Bremen and Byte FM Hamburg, a showcase at Michelle's indie record store and gigs at the Kulturetage in Oldenburg & Kampnagel in Hamburg für die Krimiwoche (!)
- [Berlin Heimathafen](https://moriartyland.net/berlin-heimathafen/) - Performing in Berlin tonight with the great Emit Bloch !
- [Deutschland](https://moriartyland.net/deutschland/) - Early morning. Moriarty's boarding a plane to northern Germany. Bremen-Oldenburg tonight, then off to Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Prague, München, Lausanne, Frankfurt, Köln, Karlsruhe...
- [Letters from the Missing Room](https://moriartyland.net/letters-from-the-missing-room/) - At last! The vinyl 12-inch version of the Missing Room is on its way! It will come within a black cardboard silkscreen-printed sleeve, with a 24-page full-size booklet illustrated by Zim Moriarty. And thanks to the patient work of the volunteer team (Tom, Zim, Charlie, Rosemary, Arthur, Dana, Mae, Ludo, Laure-Anne, Constance, Emile, Sylvie, Dominique,
- [Istres](https://moriartyland.net/istres/) - Moriarty on tour, Southern France, december 2011: after a month in the cold plains of Germany and the fogs of eastern Europe we're all blinded by the pinkish sunlights and pristine surreal reflections on the coastal waters. Lakes like mirrors, mountains on the horizon floating in mid-air, hovering above a cushion of fog, possibly man-made.
- [Memories from the Missing Room - Lorient (part II)](https://moriartyland.net/memories-from-the-missing-room-lorient-part-ii/) - Théâtre de Lorient - CDDB, 16.12.11. Memories from the Missing Room took shape for the third time. The whole thing was quite a rush, no time for a real rehearsal. But the energy was there between all the members of the team... the technicians, Morgan on the sound, Kelig on the lights, Christophe on the
- [Memories from the Missing Room - Lorient](https://moriartyland.net/memories-from-the-missing-room-lorient/) - Here we are! the stage is set we're back into the old motel room, number 08. The staff drove the whole thing a few hundred miles, then built it back up: walls doors windows bed lamps and revolving stage. Philipe Dupuy has his machines, inks and pens ready. Director Marc Lainé is rehearsing with the
- [Omnibus](https://moriartyland.net/omnibus/) - Waiting for the storm. Saint-Malo dec.16th. Omnibus. Late in the night Emeric drove Arthur and Charles at the edge of the raging ocean... waves crahing against the Pointe de la Varde.
- [Crime and punishment](https://moriartyland.net/crime-and-punishment/) - Last week, final acoustic show in Paris: Musée de la Police. Most people thought it was a hoax. But actually the place was quite interesting... full of stories, atmospheres, crime scene photographs, outlandish characters. Quite a challenge. Then we realized the museum was on the third floor of a central police station. Of course they
- [Rain](https://moriartyland.net/rain/) - On the road to Lorient through stormy weather.
- [Cigale](https://moriartyland.net/cigale/) - La Cigale, Paris, December 6th 2011. Three years after! Lail Arad opens the gig in front of fifteen hundred people packed in the room, she ends it with Everybody's moving to Berlin; and indeed outside it's freezing cold. We start with Isabella, Cottonflower, trying to get used to the big stage again after a week
- [Three donkeys](https://moriartyland.net/three-donkeys/) - Third acoustic show in Paris : Cabaret des Trois Baudets, Pigalle. An afternoon concert with a hundred kids cheering and laughing and crying and yelling and jumping on the chairs. Odile a.k.a. Isabella is there to tell the stories and blow bubbles and balloons and dream her nightmares on stage...
- [In the company of Wols](https://moriartyland.net/in-the-company-of-wols/) - Second acoustic show in Paris : Galerie Hus, nestled at the foot of the Montmartre hill. Outside the Xmas lights are glowing, inside it's Otto Wols's etchings, scratched and cut into the surface of the metal plates. Are they scribbles? cities? nerves? sounds? Tristan the gallery owner tells us the story; Wols was a musician,
- [Diane's museum](https://moriartyland.net/dianes-museum/) - First round of the secret acoustic shows in Paris: Musée de la Chasse. Hunting museum. Bears, buffaloes, dogs bearing weird names, owls on the ceiling, alligators suspended in the underground parking. And guns and rifles. Stories of life and death. The empty museum at night, animal ghosts lurking after all. An albino boar starts talking
- [Budapest](https://moriartyland.net/budapest/) - Budapest airport shuttle; a woman came and put her hands underneath rosemary's back and muttered some secret words to heal it and heat came from her hands. The streets of Budapest, too, radiated blinding sunlight. We reached the A38 ship, an ex-stone carrier cargo moored on the Danube river. The engine room became a backstage
- [Budapest-Ljubljana](https://moriartyland.net/budapest-ljubljana/) - Moriarty on tour: Budapest-Ljubljana. 6.5.2012.
- [Fondation Suisse](https://moriartyland.net/fondation-suisse/) - Moriarty's international Paris tour: Fondation Suisse, March 11th 2011. An acoustic show for 70 people, inside Le Corbusier's strangely cosy reception room, with a giant fresco as a backdrop for the stage. The acoustics sound warm and dynamic, sounds bouncing off the curved walls and huge glass facades. Meanwhile warm mulled wine is served outside
- [Deutsch de la Meurthe](https://moriartyland.net/deutsch-de-la-meurthe/) - Moriarty's international Paris tour: Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, March 10th 2011. An acoustic show for 120 people, Black Betty at the balcony, the audience sitting on the wooden floor, the high-pitched roof and the chandeliers towering in darkness...
- [Before Dylan](https://moriartyland.net/before-dylan/) - "Before Dylan": Moriarty with Wayne Standley, playing songs by Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi John Hurt, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, and Robert Zimmerman too! Cité de la Musique, Paris, March 8th 2012.
- [Before before Dylan](https://moriartyland.net/before-before-dylan/) - Digging into the American soil, looking for Robert Zimmerman's musical roots... Woodie Guthrie, Hank Williams, Mississipi John Hurt, Chuck Berry, Doc Watson, Robert Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Leadbelly, Elmore James, Johnny Cash, Blind Willie McTell... "Before Dylan" project. Moriarty's Studio, Paris, February 2012.
- [Velvet U.](https://moriartyland.net/velvet-u/) - The Velvet Underground played by Rodolphe Burger & friends, featuring Rosemary on "Heroin". Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris, February 2012.
- [Biarritz](https://moriartyland.net/biarritz/) - Moriarty on tour, Gare du Midi, Biarritz, 18.02.2012. After crossing the Saint-Emilion vineyards, we reach Euskal Herria, finally!
- [TAP](https://moriartyland.net/tap/) - The Missing Room tour goes back on the roads of France: Théâtre-Auditorium de Poitiers... a wonderful place, building (by portuguese architect Carrilho da Graça), team, acoustics. Three days ago the theatre was accidentally flooded by 70000 liters of water - like a monsoon or a tropical rain, they said - but the staff managed to
- [TV dinner](https://moriartyland.net/tv-dinner/) - In a weird house playing Isabella for strangers having dinner in front of us (outside, big TV spotlights flood the neighbours' windows too, so they have to close their blinds if they want to sleep!)
- [Reunion sessions](https://moriartyland.net/reunion-sessions/) - On the way back from Australia, we took a short break; six days of rehearsals, writing music with Christine Salem & her maloya band, Vincent, Harry, David on kayamb, rouleur, triangle, picker... Moriarty on tour, Ile de la Réunion, January 2012.
- [Réunion, day 6](https://moriartyland.net/reunion-day-6/) - Moriarty on tour, Reunion Island, January 2012. 6 days of rehearsals with Christine Salem & her musicians, & little Zoe too, trying to grasp that maloya rythm. A nightly concert of Sophie & Christine Salem in the middle of the sugarcane fields above St-Pierre, Kabar Boissy. Dust and smoke and swaying bodies until three. Up
- [Réunion (dancing with Zoe)](https://moriartyland.net/reunion-dancing-with-zoe/) - Moriarty's with Christine Salem & her musicians, Ile de la Réunion, January 2012; today we're playing with Zoe on the cigar-box guitar.
- [Réunion, day 1](https://moriartyland.net/reunion-day-1/) - January 22nd 2012, Ile de la Réunion, the "Saline" sessions: Moriarty rehearses for future concerts with Christine Salem & her musicians, Harry Vincent and David on the percussions... guitars, double-bass and harmonica meet kayamb, rouleur and picker percussions. there's also a kabossi luth from Comores. And the voices of Rosemary and Christine Salem, in creole
- [Brisbane](https://moriartyland.net/brisbane/) - Queensland here we come! Our dear Tania welcomes us at the airport. On the way in, Brisbane's skyscrapers glimmer in the sun; a storefront says "Jimmy Possum"... maybe a distant aboriginal cousin? Our home for tonight will be a mansion in the New Farm area, surrounded by fat tropical trees which exhale a sweetly suffocating
- [18 hours in Sydney](https://moriartyland.net/18-hours-in-sydney/) - The Australian tour goes on... after a quick flight from Melbourne we're in Sydney watching the monorail hiss overhead and with only two hours left before the soundcheck we scatter around the city, Surrey Hills and Bondi... then we reach the Hyde Park Barracks, former prison where the festival takes place - our dressing rooms
- [Melbourne](https://moriartyland.net/melbourne/) - Australian summer in Melbourne. Moriarty plays acoustic shows at PBS radio studios and Reading's bookstore in St Kilda. January 2012.
- [Red desert](https://moriartyland.net/red-desert/) - Roaming through the red desert... Moriarty's australian tour, January 2012.
- [Werribee Parks](https://moriartyland.net/werribee-parks/) - A gigantic picnic for 3000 people. a feast of french wines and pastries. Lush and mighty australian trees and flowers, lemon-scented gum trees, banya-banya prehistoric pines from Queensland. A cloister without the monks, a mansion with the australian flag flying at the top. Somewhere in one of the bedrooms, the lady who owned all that
- [Alice Springs](https://moriartyland.net/alice-springs/) - Heat and sporadic rain. A gap through the McDonnell ranges. Aboriginal families roam across the dry bed of the Todd River, which flows only once every decade... Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia jan. 2012.
- [Songlines](https://moriartyland.net/songlines/) - Flying over the red desert. Trails and songlines from 30000 feet up. Melbourne to Alice Springs, Australia, January 2012.
- [St Kilda](https://moriartyland.net/st-kilda/) - Roaming around Melbourne's St Kilda ... full moon, summer night, lunapark, old seaside theater, Harley-Davidson gangs. Australia, January 2012.
- [28 hours](https://moriartyland.net/28-hours/) - Taking off to St-Denis-Sydney-Melbourne. Arrival in 28 hours.
- [Château-Rouge](https://moriartyland.net/chateau-rouge/) - Moriarty's Missing Room tour, going back to the French Alps and the Swiss border; Annemasse, Château-Rouge, March 3rd 2012.
- [Perpignan](https://moriartyland.net/perpignan/) - December 2011. The tour goes on. After a train ride through shiny waters and floating mountains again, we reach Perpignan and its train station, celebrated by Dali as the Center of the Universe (the axis around which the Iberian Peninsula revolved 132 million years ago...) Then the odd silhouettes of the Théâtre de l'Archipel loom
- [Teatro Garibaldi Aperto](https://moriartyland.net/teatro-garibaldi-aperto/) - Palermo, Sicilia, April 15th 2012. Teatro Garibaldi, after having been abandoned for years, is opened and occupied by a collective of 60 artists, protesting against misuse of public funds and deep malfunction of cultural policies in Italy. At midnight, just minutes before they're supposed to hand over the theater to the authorities, stage director Emma
- [La Rochelle](https://moriartyland.net/la-rochelle/) - Moriarty on tour, La Rochelle, Théâtre de la Coursive. A walk through the botanical Gardens and the Natural history museum, in the company of Zarafa the Giraffe.
- [Tournai](https://moriartyland.net/tournai/) - Moriarty on tour in Belgium: Tournai, March 2012. Tall towers of the cathedral, industrial modernism of the Maison de la Culture, reminiscent of londonian architect Goldfinger. "Too much and the white Nots" drove all the way from Brussels to open the show. As we were standing in the middle of a street, shooting a picture
- [Where Is The Light](https://moriartyland.net/where-is-the-light/) - Somewhere in Paris or in Rome, March 21st 2012. (photo by Zim)
- [Gigs for the kids](https://moriartyland.net/gigs-for-the-kids/) - Moriarty playing low-noise concerts for five to ten-year old children...It's a gray and rainy Sunday, the magic mirror spiegeltent is dwarfed by the titanic void of the Grande Arche. Inside, the little kids are pretty quiet but on the final song they stand up and rush to the edge of the stage and start jumping
- [Maison du Brésil](https://moriartyland.net/maison-du-bresil/) - Moriarty's Paris World Tour: final acoustic concert at the Maison du Brésil (Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris), March 15th 2012. The rough concrete building by Le Corbusier & Lucio Costa resonates like a shell and builds up a tropical heat within minutes. Red green yellow black surfaces are dripping with condensed sweat from a hundred
- [A day with Ego Wrappin'](https://moriartyland.net/a-day-with-ego-wrappin/) - One busy day, acoustic session on the french radio, acoustic concert at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, together with fellow band Ego Wrappin' from Japan. In front of the Théâtre de la Coupole, four travellers are waiting at the door with their huge backpacks... they came from Prague hitchiking for two days to see
- [House of the Rising Sun](https://moriartyland.net/house-of-the-rising-sun/) - Moriarty's international Paris tour: Maison du Japon, March 13th 2011. An acoustic show for 150 people, featuring special guests Ego Wrappin' from Tokyo (they'll cover Rita Mitsouko songs tonight). Grey velvety curtains, goldfoil-gilded frescoes, open spaces in a 1927 building made by a french architect in a japanese manner. Where is the "ma"?
- [Departure](https://moriartyland.net/departure/) - Time to leave the island and fly back to the northern hemisphere. Christine and Line and the family have come to say goodbye... Moriarty on tour, Reunion Island, June 2012.
- [Palaxa, last day.](https://moriartyland.net/palaxa-last-day/) - Last day on the island: private concert at the Palaxa, performing a few songs written with Christine Salem and her musicians David, Vincent, Harry... Moriarty on tour, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, June 2012.
- [Tourcoing](https://moriartyland.net/tourcoing/) - A huge city square at the northern french border. Right opposite the stage, the church bells keep ringing all day because of weddings and confirmations, making so much din it is nearly impossible to play music, even with the help of the festival's powerful loudspeakers. Arthur asks the priest if it is possible to have
- [The black shore (part II)](https://moriartyland.net/the-black-shore-part-ii/) - Later, as night falls, we drive across the curvy road that gets constantly rebuilt on top of the latest lava eruptions. There the ground is still smoking like a heaving animal in the morning dew. Below our wheels there's still molten rock waiting for its next awakening... Moriarty on tour, Reunion Island, June 2012.
- [The black shore](https://moriartyland.net/the-black-shore/) - Took a drive around the island to reach the foot of the volcano, where the lava flowed straight into the sea a few years ago, expanding the island's surface and boiling abyssal fish out of the water. Rambling down the frozen flow we stumbled upon a hole in the ground, opening onto a huge cave-like
- [The bridge](https://moriartyland.net/the-bridge/) - Pont suspendu de la Rivière de l'Est, Route Nationale 2, Saint-Benoit. Moriarty on tour, Reunion Island, June 2012.
- [Réunion, East Coast](https://moriartyland.net/reunion-east-coast/) - An unlikely place. The green café, run by a fanatic of St-Etienne's soccer team, somewhere on the east coast of the Reunion Island. Out there, Christine Salem is known as "la cafrine de feu", both for her character and her stage presence. Moriarty on tour, Ile de la Réunion, Indian Ocean, June 2012.
- [Camélias / Chaudron](https://moriartyland.net/camelias-chaudron/) - Quartier Camélias, home of Christine Salem and cradle of her songs. Halfway between french grands ensembles and mumbai housing blocks. Quartier Chaudron, vanilla and peppers, old creole granmounes eating masalés, concrete towers, mountains in the distance. Squashed tropical fruit over the hot asphalt, where riots took place just three months ago. Moriarty on tour: Saint-Denis,
- [Kabar Boissy](https://moriartyland.net/kabar-boissy/) - Moriarty + Salem, premiering new songs written together, in front of a few hundred people at Kabar Boissy, a concert venue hidden in the middle of the sugarcane fields, high above Saint-Pierre de la Réunion. We drove from St-Denis and reached the place through winding secret roads lined with high walls of cane, and walked
- [Palaxa Day 3](https://moriartyland.net/palaxa-day-3/) - Moriarty + Salem songwriting sessions. Ternary meets binary, percussions meet strings and harmonica, creole meets english. Inch'Allah, Sakalav (Drifting Indian Blues), Mi Koné Pa Pourkouè, Lae Lae Laie, Gin Trap, Na Pit Bout (Sans Fin), Lunja... St-Denis de la Réunion, June 9th 2012.
- [Palaxa Day 2](https://moriartyland.net/palaxa-day-2/) - Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, Moriarty's songwriting sessions with Christine Salem & her musicians. Palaxa, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, 07.03.2012.
- [Palaxa Day 1](https://moriartyland.net/palaxa-day-1/) - Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, Moriarty's songwriting sessions with Christine Salem & her musicians. Palaxa, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, 07.03.2012.
- [Saint-Denis, Réunion](https://moriartyland.net/saint-denis-reunion/) - On the road, moving from one Saint to the other, along the Route du Littoral: Saint-Gilles to Saint-Denis; Moriarty songwriting sessions with Christine Salem & her musicians. Saint-Denis de la Réunion, 07.06.2012.
- [Salem+Moriarty](https://moriartyland.net/salemmoriarty/) - Moriarty songwriting with Christine Salem & her musicians. La Saline, Ile de la Réunion, June 2012.
- [Moses](https://moriartyland.net/moses/) - He stepped into the Ocean and the black sand turned into white foam, gigantic waves crashing on the shore with the sound of thunder. Arthur Moriarty, Etang Salé, Ile de la Réunion, June 2012.
- [Waro](https://moriartyland.net/waro/) - Early sunday morning, Waro and his musicians perform for the Sakifo's "Risofé" (riz chauffé) in Terre Sainte, at the edge of the great Ocean. The Moriarties hitch-hike a good 20km to reach the place. And finally stand in awe in the middle of the audience, under the blazing sun, with shivers down the spine listening
- [Sakifo Part II](https://moriartyland.net/sakifo-part-ii/) - 6pm: Moriarty sings with Salem for a TV show on a stage facing the Indian Ocean and its coral reef; some believe it's an amber spotlight shining there but it's actually the setting sun. 7pm: The big stage is called La Poudrière and the audience is quite explosive indeed. Night falls during the gig as
- [Sakifo Part I](https://moriartyland.net/sakifo-part-i/) - Rehearsal with Christine Salem & her musicians, while the trucks are cleaning up the market of St-Pierre with a deafening racket, and the afternoon sun is burning skin and instruments. Moriarty on tour: Sakifo Festival, St-Pierre de la Réunion, june 2nd 2012.
- [Paris-Reunion](https://moriartyland.net/paris-reunion/) - Ten-hour flight from Paris to the Reunion Island. A Boeing 777 filled with musicians due to perform at the Sakifo Festival flies above Egyt and the Nile Valley, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia. On board it's a tower of Babel. The musicians of Patrice speak german, Saul Williams speaks american english, Flavia Coelho speaks french intermingled with
- [Kerouac Sessions](https://moriartyland.net/kerouac-sessions/) - Moriarty sings and plays along haïkus and poems written by Jack Kerouac, with sounds and voices from Lowell, Massachusetts. Portrait of the great Jack and his Beat gang in positive/negative: pros and cons, praise and criticism, futility and relevance. In the end it's just good to play in the presence of the writer's ghost, inside
- [Art Rock](https://moriartyland.net/art-rock/) - Soundcheck: echoes on an empty square like thunder. Antidote: an acoustic concert inside a bookstore, crowded with a few hundred people, kids and teenagers and parents and grandparents. To everyone's surprise, at the end of the show, a woman named Renée, maybe eighty years old, stands up and sings out loud with charlie on "enjoy
- [Marmite](https://moriartyland.net/marmite/) - Skiing on the asphalt. A big circus tent standing by the side of a river, tucked deep in the french countryside. A castle built for a beautiful lady in penitence, in the bedroom a hidden window behind the chimney, from where she peeked into the chapel and secretly attended mass during fifty years. Cold stone
- [Donkeys](https://moriartyland.net/donkeys/) - A gig in central France, in a big barn among donkeys and horses and bales of hay. Last year, just minutes before a famous french singer was about to start his show, a baby donkey was born in the stable behind the stage. The singer rushed on stage and hit his head hard on the
- [Monthey, Switzerland](https://moriartyland.net/monthey-switzerland/) - Industrial landscape tucked between the Léman and the Valais mountains. Every ten minutes the swooshing and rattling sound of a passing train fills up the room. The place is packed with people coming from higher up in the valleys, Sion and Martigny. And Lausanne too. Around 1a.m., the hôtel des cheminots is dark and silent,
- [Röstigraben](https://moriartyland.net/rostigraben/) - Driving across the "Rösti divide", from Zürich to Valais, where saxon and latin cultures overlap but don't always mingle. Moriarty's Missing Room tour: Switzerland, May 9th 2012.
- [Zürich, Rote Fabrik](https://moriartyland.net/zurich-rote-fabrik/) - Rote Fabrik. Rain and half-circle rainbows on the Zürich lake. Rosemary takes a dive but it's too cold to swim, the water feeling like a million needles piercing into the skin. Nadja Zela opens the show with her beautiful guitar sound and vocals. The swiss-german audience slowly builds up and, unlike what Fritz Zorn might
- [Ljubljana-Zürich](https://moriartyland.net/ljubljana-zurich/) - Flying from Ljubljana to Zürich, above snow-covered peaks and through endless sterile aiport corridors and waiting lounges and duty-free cigarettes. Moriarty on tour, May 2012.
- [Ljubljana](https://moriartyland.net/ljubljana/) - With the great Martin at the wheel we drive smoothly from Vicenza to Palmanova d'Udine and its strange metaphysical hexagon feeling like a sunburnt piazza in southern Spain. At the Slovenian border the carabinieri take twenty minutes to check everyone's ID, just in case. They have a look at the instruments piled up at the
- [Vicenza](https://moriartyland.net/vicenza/) - Moriarty on tour: first gig in Italy; Basilica Palladiana, Jazz cafe Trivellato, Panic jazz Festival, Vicenza (Italy) 7.5.2012.
- [Trieste](https://moriartyland.net/trieste/) - Rain showers, Adriatic wind gusts, slavic-italian dialect spoken on the streets, dark dense espressi, sunlit clouds hovering beyond the horizon line and the cargos, somewhere over Italy. Moriarty's Mitteleuropa tour: Travelling from Ljubljana to Vicenza; stopover in Trieste, Italy, 7.5.2012.
- [Théâtre Petit-Champlain, Québec 20.02.2014](https://moriartyland.net/theatre-petit-champlain-quebec-20-02-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: Théâtre du Petit-Champlain, Québec, February 20th 2014 Arrival in Québec City, straight into the old town and its funny Christmas-carrollian atmosphere. We carry the instruments through the cold air, up the old stairs leading to the Théâtre du Petit-Champlain. The whole place has changed since last year. It’s now setup to look
- [Montréal-Québec, 20.02.2014](https://moriartyland.net/montreal-quebec-20-02-2014/) - On the road to Québec City, with Regina at the wheel. The whole crew –Arthur, Thomas, Vincent, Zim, Morgan, Philippe Dupuy & Rosemary- tucked into a mighty Ford van, its V6 engine roaring. The white landscape unravels, as we drive over the Saint-Laurent we see the frozen waters and the empty lunapark and the steel
- [Secret acoustic gig, 16.02.2014](https://moriartyland.net/secret-acoustic-gig-23-02-14/) - A secret, improvised gig in a small bar in northern Paris… testing out new songs after weeks of seclusion inside our studio, working out ways to compose, decompose, recompose music. Old songs like “Cottonflower”, “Private Lily”, “I Will Do”, or “How Many Tides”, as well as the songs from our latest album “Fugitives”, were deconstructed
- [Istanbul, part IV: Babylon 01.11.2013](https://moriartyland.net/istanbul-part-iv-babylon/) - The Babylon, nested into the furious Asmalı Mescit neighborhood, is a small but quite legendary club. Tonight it's sold-out and packed with 400 people (That feels like a lot, even in the middle of the fourteen million inhabitants of the city). It's our first "official" gig in front of the turkish audience, so we pull
- [Istanbul, part III: Saint-Antoine on Istiklal Caddesi 01.11.2013](https://moriartyland.net/istanbul-part-iii-saint-antoine-on-istiklal-caddesi/) - Early morning rendezvous on Istiklal Caddesi. The church of St-Antoine is an odd presence, a quote of venetian architecture grafted into the heart of Istanbul, a piece of old Europe . We settle in the courtyard and play an acoustic rendition of Private Lily, recorded on video for a turkish website. Maybe this old song
- [Paris-Montreal 19.02.2014](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-on-tour-paris-montreal-19-02-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: Paris-Montréal, February 19th, 2014. Departure for the cold lands. Air Canada, Boeing 777 with few passengers in it and a surprisingly senior/elderly flight crew. As we are about to board, we talk about our journey to come, and a concert we will do in a place called Waterloo in Quebec… next to
- [İstanbul, Part II: Robinson Crusoe 389 31.10.2013](https://moriartyland.net/istanbul-part-2-robinson-crusoe-389/) - First concert in Turkey for the band. Robinson Crusoe 389, a small bookstore on İstiklal Caddesi, sells carefully selected turkish and english-language books; they are threatened by the rising prices and rents of central Istanbul, and might soon close down... but who wants to see another Türkcell phone shop, or a global fashion store, taking
- [Istanbul, part I 30.10.2013](https://moriartyland.net/istanbul-part-1/) - Moriarty on tour: Istanbul, 30.10.2013 41'00"49N / 28'57"18E. Landing in Istanbul. İmmense suburbs sprawl across the Bosphorus, fourteen million people down there (seventeen million says the cab driver!). The most densely populated metropolis in Europe, second largest in the world after Shanghai. We settle in Beyoğlu, taking in the rythm of İstanbul, and slowly all
- [Air Rytmo Night 16.10.2013](https://moriartyland.net/air-rytmo-night/) - A cold wet night in Paris, but it's sweltering hot inside the Cigale. Christine Salem opens the show with her percussionnists, aka les tontons, Harry & David, pounding some maloya beats and calling the spirits to rise. The three Mama Rosins then pick it up, merging the creole vibes from both sides of the planet.
- [Réunion - Mauritius (Indian Ocean) 04.03.13)](https://moriartyland.net/reunion-mauritius-indian-ocean-04-03-13/) - Moriarty on tour: acoustic concert in Mauritius (Indian Ocean) 04.03.2013. Flying in from the Reunion Island, hopping above the unreal depths of the Indian Ocean, Mauritius comes into sight through clouds and lagoons: spiky moutains and rocky outcrops jutting out of the flat earth and sea, like the teeth and spikes of a buried dragon.
- [Palaxa (28.02.13)](https://moriartyland.net/palaxa-28-02-13/) - Jet-lag. Body clock still tuned into Montreal time. Eyes wide open in the sweltering heat of an unknown room. 5:30am. Alien birdsongs outside, loud and intricate. Lift up the blinds. Palm trees, corrugated metal roofs, haze rising from the forests on the slopes of a rugged mountainside. Dawn is coming, the sky is quickly changing
- [Back à la Reynion 26.02.2013](https://moriartyland.net/back-a-la-reynion/) - Oté Koman y lé? Re-uniting with the island and its music. Christine Salem and her musicians Harry and David welcome us to St-Denis; just an hour after landing we're already set to rehearse with them on stage inside the Palaxa, a venue tucked into an old factory facing the Ocean. Our drummer Eric locks into
- [Winter-Summer tour 24/26.02.2013](https://moriartyland.net/winter-summer/) - Sunday morning in Montréal, say farewell to the snow-caked sidewalks, leaping over ponds of muddy slush from Mont-Royal to Avenue Laurier. Sunshine melts the icicles away from the high-pitched roofs, but we won't have time to watch them stab the ground. Hop on a cab to Trudeau Airport and 48 hours later we're flying over
- [Sherbrooke 23.02.13](https://moriartyland.net/sherbrooke-23-02-13/) - Titanic iron-truss bridges across the Saint-Laurent river, trailing a broken ice mantle. Arthur drives the van -packed with amplifiers, a double-bass, a drumkit, five guitars, twenty harmonicas and all the Moriarty family- across slippery highways, down to Sherbrooke. Suburban feel, brickhouses, wide roads, telephone poles, all silent under the falling snow. Tonight we play in
- [Montréal - Lion d'Or 22.02.13](https://moriartyland.net/montreal-lion-dor/) - It was a cold sunny day. The slush melted in the curbs. The Cabaret Lion d'Or looked as dark and magnificent as four years ago on our first concert in Montreal. The crowd came at the last minute, filling up the former clandestine bar to the brim. At the balcony a mixed crowd of français
- [First day in Montréal](https://moriartyland.net/first-day-in-montreal/) - Moriarty on tour: Montréal, Québec, february 21st 2013. Long walks across Mile End, under the snow, frozen noses, wind slaps our faces like a giant whip, wet feet from the sloche, looking for the Maisonnette recording studio, where Lhasa recorded her last album. Learning winter survival in Montréal.
- [Québec - Montréal](https://moriartyland.net/quebec-montreal/) - Moriarty on tour: all guitars stacked in the trunk of the tour van, driving through the falling snow, lonesome houses marooned in the white desert, until we finally reach the slushy streets of Mile End and the Plateau; the long straight road from Québec to Montréal, february 21st 2013.
- [Galigalang, St-Gilles (Ile de la Réunion, 01.03.2013)](https://moriartyland.net/galigalang-st-gilles-ile-de-la-reunion-01-03-2013/) - Early morning, a creole house nestled within the town of St-Gilles. Hidden inside, a small television studio. Walls covered with vinyl records. Heat. For a program called Galigalang we perform "Isabella", then "Black Betty/Sonlouval" with our friends Christine Salem and her percussionnists Harry & David on rouleur drum & piker. All nine musicians are compressed
- [Last night in Québec](https://moriartyland.net/last-night-in-quebec/) - Moriarty on tour: Québec, february 2013. A snowstorm finally shrouds the city, walking back home across the stairs and slopes of quartier St-Jean Baptiste we are chased by the monstrous behemoths scraping the snow from the streets with their mandibles. From the safe heaven of the hotel room we watch Québec city get swallowed and
- [Québec - Hilton sessions 19.02.13](https://moriartyland.net/quebec-hilton-sessions/) - Moriarty on tour: Québec city, february 2013. In room 702 with Morgan our sound engineer, recording guitar and dobro overdubs for the upcoming project (known as "Before Dylan"). As the basic track of "Mattie Groves" plays in the headphones, and Arthur adds a percussive dobro pattern to it, we watch the skyline of the Basse-Ville,
- [Québec - Petit Champlain 18.02.13](https://moriartyland.net/quebec-petit-champlain/) - Clear-cut cold morning, -17 degrees celsius, -30 with the wind. Even the ink inside the ballpoint pen freezes and makes it impossible to draw or write outside. This morning we perform an acoustic version of Isabella on radio CHYZ's Hexagone programme, somewhere underneath the Université de Laval. Then a mad cab races through the slushy
- [Québec - Le port / Le Cercle 16.02.13](https://moriartyland.net/quebec-le-port-le-cercle/) - Woke up to a glaring winter sunlight, reverberating all over the snow-covered harbour, burning our retinas. A lone rusty tanker, the Atlantic Huron, is docked behind the titanic grain silos, its hull and propellers frozen in thick ice. Sometimes a movement occurs, the ice shelf cracks and maelstroms of water gurgle beneath the ship. Arthur
- [Paris-Montreal-Quebec](https://moriartyland.net/paris-montreal-quebec/) - Moriarty's back on the road for the final leg of the Missing Room Tour: sixteen hours in transit from Paris to Montréal to Québec. After a quiet flight on the upstairs deck of a 747 and a long wait under the neon lights of Trudeau airport, we board a tiny Bombardier Dash 8-300 propeller aircraft
- [Mama Rosin + Moriarty](https://moriartyland.net/mama-rosin-moriarty/) - Moriarty recording with the amazing swiss cajun-garage-zydeco band Mama Rosin - Studio Pigalle, Paris 11.02.13.
- [Salem+Moriarty (8): Penmarc'h](https://moriartyland.net/salemmoriarty-8-penmarch/) - All the way to Finis Terrae, Penn Ar Bed. As we reach the Pointe de la Torche a hail storm whips us down to the ground like a biblical punishment, Harry and Christine seek shelter behind the german WW2 bunker (twist of fate) and the Moriarties gather around David to protect him (he's only wearing
- [Salem+Moriarty (7): Saint-Brieuc](https://moriartyland.net/salemmoriarty-7-saint-brieuc/) - That club was almost dead a decade ago, and they revived it. Sold-out show tonight! Moriarty on tour with Christine Salem: La Citrouille, Saint-Brieuc 14.12.12.
- [Salem+Moriarty (6): Montlouis/Loire](https://moriartyland.net/salemmoriarty-6-montlouisloire/) - A few hundred heated up people under a huge roof looking like a hangar, some of them sitting, some dancing. sweaty good gig. for an encore, played "rambling man" and "jimmy" with Harry, David and Christine's maloya rythms! and finished with the great sing-along "mameleo". Moriarty on tour with Christine Salem, Espace Ligeria, Montlouis s/Loire
- [Salem+Moriarty (5): Bordeaux](https://moriartyland.net/salemmoriarty-5-bordeaux/) - Leaving Paris at dawn, 7am, sun shines on till Bordeaux, a long long drive, we arrive at the Krakatoa, setup the stage and head straight to the beloved Librairie Mollat for a small acoustic gig amidst the books. Then hike back up to Mérignac, and work on some songs with Christine Salem (The Dark Line
- [Salem+Moriarty (4): MC93 Africolor](https://moriartyland.net/salemmoriarty-4-mc93-bobigny/) - Back to the Parisian suburbs, after a long exhausting drive from Ardèche. Moriarty on tour with Christine Salem, Festival Africolor, MC93, Bobigny, 08.12.12.
- [Salem+Moriarty (3): Vals-Les-Bains](https://moriartyland.net/salemmoriarty-3-vals-les-bains/) - Snowfall, theatre & casino in the mountains, the staff met years before in Montselgues & Joyeuse. The audience standing up from their seats to dance at the end of the show; Moriarty on tour with Christine Salem: Théâtre Quinconces, Vals-les-Bains (Ardèche) 07.12.12.
- [Salem+Moriarty (2): Annonay](https://moriartyland.net/salem-moriarty-2-annonay/) - Back on the road with Christine Salem & her musicians Harry & David from the Reunion Island. First stop: Théâtre d'Annonay, Ardèche, 06.12.12. A long drive south in the tour-bus, with Tom and Arthur at the wheel. On the way we kidnap a deviant Santa-Claus advertising for an american soda at a gas station. Then
- [Clocheville childrens hospital](https://moriartyland.net/clocheville-childrens-hospital/) - Moriarty performing a special show in the childrens hospital of Clocheville, walking through the corridors in music and singing songs to the children in the bedrooms. (thanks to the hospital staff and the association Blouses Notes) Tours (F), December 12th 2012.
- [Salem+Moriarty (1): Abbaye de Fontevraud](https://moriartyland.net/fontevraud/) - A travel through the damp fog, cold moist stones welcome us at the abbey-cum-penitentiary. And a cat named Booboo is the master in the house. The performance takes place inside the former dormitory where hundreds of nuns used to sleep, fifty meters long and a barrel vault made of wood like the belly of a
- [Studio](https://moriartyland.net/studio/) - 6 days, 6 musicians in 10 square meters: recording doing undoing structuring destructuring repeating forgetting remembering fixing rolling.
- [Woodie Guthrie (2)](https://moriartyland.net/woodie-guthrie-2/) - Driving back home after a show in Anjou; 125km/h on the A11 highway; suddenly a tire explosion shakes and rattles the tourbus, Morgan at the wheel keeps steady control over the vehicle but in a few seconds we find ourselves scraping the metal rim on the asphalt. Smell of hot burnt rubber. Cold winds over
- [Woody Guthrie](https://moriartyland.net/woody-guthrie/) - Somewhere in the french countryside, the border between Anjou and Poitou. Golden hills covered with vineyards, families gathered in farmhouses made of white stone, icy chilling cold arctic air and warm sunshine on a landscape that looks like another Big Sky Country, Montana maybe? Guitarist Seb Martel invited us to perform a tribute to Woodie
- [Hope & Love for Japan](https://moriartyland.net/hope-love-for-japan/) - "Hope & Love for Japan", a concert raising funds for tsunami victims in the Tohoku region. Minutes after going off stage at the Theatre de la Bastille, we hop on a cab with a few instruments, and rush to the Parc de La Villette. As we arrive, Yoko picks us up, Gush have just finished
- [Arras](https://moriartyland.net/arras/) - Théâtre d'Arras: the very last gig of the Missing Room tour in France. 09.10.12. Marie-Jo and her Café Georget, stories of vocal chords & charcoal mines. Rain, drizzle, empty squares. Rosemary & Dom La Nena open the show with Monteverdi's "Lamento della Ninfa", "Bird on a Wire", "Homo Fugit Velut Umbra", a traditional spanish song
- [Théâtre de la Bastille (3)](https://moriartyland.net/theatre-de-la-bastille-3/) - "Memories From The Missing Room", Paris, october 2012. Four weeks in a motel room, feeling a bit like Bill Murray in Punxsutawney, waking up to the same groundhog day again and again forever.
- [Théâtre de la Bastille (2)](https://moriartyland.net/theatre-de-la-bastille-2/) - "Memories From The Missing Room", Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris. September 2012.
- [Théâtre de la Bastille (1)](https://moriartyland.net/theatre-de-la-bastille-1/) - We're back in room number 08. Memories From The Missing Room, Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris, september 2012.
- [Jena](https://moriartyland.net/jena/) - Deep in the heart of Thüringen. The city basks in its own heat. The Theaterhaus has been partly torn down in the eighties to make way for a parking lot, for some reason they destroyed all the audience seating tiers, so that only the stage tower is left standing, open to the city like a
- [Transit through Berlin](https://moriartyland.net/transit-through-berlin/) - A few hours in the Hauptstadt.
- [Nachtzug to Berlin](https://moriartyland.net/nachtzug-to-berlin/) - Night trains disappear like an extinct species. The Paris-Berlin Nachtzug still snakes its way through the border. Open windows swallow the dark air in great gusts. Silhouettes shine at the end of the corridors. A blunt ribbon of light splashes against the black unfathomable forests. Lone houses with closed shutters waiting in the great continental
- [Hunawihr / Grünewald](https://moriartyland.net/grunewald/) - Hunawihr / Colmar: The Issenheim Altar: La Tentation de Saint-Antoine.
- [Colmar](https://moriartyland.net/colmar/) - Bordeaux-Strasbourg in a small embraer jet, flying low over castles and Vosges mountains. Colmar: a big wine fair: Sylvaner, Riesling, Pinots, Gewürztraminer wines gathered around a venue shaped like a gigantic shell made of concrete and metal. Overhead we hear the roar of landing aircraft. We share the stage with the band Gossip - during
- [Luxey](https://moriartyland.net/luxey/) - Driving south towards the Landes, high towering mediterranean pines, their needles covering the sandy ground. We're sleeping under the roof of a traditional house, wooden skeleton turned towards the east for freshness and rising sun. In the night, shooting stars streak the sky, bats fly into the house and flutter in circles across the beds.
- [Chanteix](https://moriartyland.net/chanteix/) - A veteran festival tucked deep in the centre of France, 25 years of existence surrounded by potato fields. We meet the director, he had a new concert venue built in the village in the shape of a metal box - the only modern architecture around. Moriarty on tour. Festival aux Champs, Chanteix (F) 12.08.2012
- [Petite Pierre](https://moriartyland.net/petite-pierre/) - A forest, a fortress made of stone at the foot of the Vosges Mountains in eastern France, close to the german border (our drivers remind us that their parents went to german school when they were little, and that the place is riddled with artificial lakes - meant to be a liquid Ligne Maginot that
- [Bagad Parade](https://moriartyland.net/bagad-parade/) - The morning after the show: Bagpipes from all over the celtic world. Scotland, Eire, Isle of Man, Breizh, Asturias, Galicia, Acadie etc. Some orchestras are military, others host iroquois-crested punk drummers. Moriarty on tour: Festival Interceltique de Lorient, 08.2012.
- [Interceltique](https://moriartyland.net/interceltique/) - Moriarty on tour: Festival Interceltique de Lorient (F), August 4th 2012. A concert in the cradle of celtic music, with guests Mama Rosin from Switzerland and Christine Salem from the Reunion Island... looking for the missing link between Acadian, Cajun, Blues, Folk and Maloya music. Quick rehearsal in the afternoon with the Mama Rosins and
- [Salem+Moriarty recording sessions](https://moriartyland.net/salemmoriarty-recording-sessions/) - Moriarty recording a few songs with Christine Salem and her percussionists Vincent Philéas, David Abrousse, Harry Perigone. Special guest: Portia. Paris, July 2012.
- [Cévennes](https://moriartyland.net/cevennes/) - Cévennes. Intense heat, rugged stones and dried out river. Reminiscence of italian paesini. Kids leaping into the green water. The show is sold out, 2000 people or more on the village square, hot and noisy. The festival is one with spirit, run by volunteers. We start the show at 10:45 pm and watch all the
- [Lilas](https://moriartyland.net/lilas/) - Rehearsing with les réunionnais, Christine Salem, Harry & David. Les Lilas, 18.07.12.
- [Musilac](https://moriartyland.net/musilac/) - Early morning after a sleepless night in La Rochelle. Long train journey through Paris-Lyon-Aix-Les-Bains. Tucked between magnificent mountains and the depths of Lac du Bourget, the biggest festival stage we've ever seen, looking like the carcass of an oil refinery in Romania. Two bands can play there, side by side, they look like tiny insects
- [Francofolies, 14 Juillet 2012](https://moriartyland.net/francofolies-14-juillet-2012/) - Huge parking lot turned into a concert arena for eight thousand people, overlooked by medieval walls and a lighthouse shaped like a gothic spire. Wind blows hard, cloud shadows sweep the ground fast-forward like Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven. The air is loaded with Atlantic moisture and the huge structure above our heads shudders and
- [Friday the 13th / animals (1)](https://moriartyland.net/friday-the-13th-animals-1/) - Playing this morning among the animals. Concert-déambulation acoustique, Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de la Rochelle (F). Francofolies, Friday, july 13th 2012.
- [Mudlands](https://moriartyland.net/mudlands/) - After a long trip from Quebec, landed in the rain and the mud, surrounded by courageous, dedicated and somewhat hysterical concert-goers. Moriarty on tour: Festival Foin de la Rue, St-Denis de Gastines (F), July 7th 2012.
- [Neverending day](https://moriartyland.net/neverending-day/) - Thirty-six hours in transit: right after the concert in Quebec, hopped on an airplane to Paris, then drove a bus through diluvian rainshowers to reach a festival in western France and play again, drenched in mud and jet-lagged. Tom wanted more, so he took the wheel again and drove back to Paris through the night.
- [Québec](https://moriartyland.net/quebec/) - 4:30am : sunrise over Quebec city, amidst plumes of smoke giant spiders hover in their webs above the sleepy acadians. Later we hop on a bus with all our messy gear to reach rue Saint-Joseph for our concert au Cercle. White-haired bony-cheeked drifters watch from their bench as youths line up along the sidewalk to
- [On the road from Sherbrooke to Quebec](https://moriartyland.net/on-the-road-from-sherbrooke-to-quebec/) - Leaving Sherbrooke. A hotel with endless corridors and a swimming pool with fake rocks and floating seniors. A hockey coach named Ivan came to the show and now bids us farewell. On the low-cast highways of Estrie, bikers on Harleys with racoon or fox-fur tails flying in the wind, titanic iron bridges from a bygone
- [Montreal Day 4](https://moriartyland.net/montreal-day-4/) - A day off in Mile End, roaming through square cornered streets lined with small yards and quiet porches and indie culture hangouts, until torrential rainshowers wash out the city. Les chats les hipsters quelques vieillards à barbe blanche fuient aussi. Our good friend Christine bravely set up a concert in the Dépanneur café on Bernard
- [Sherbrooke](https://moriartyland.net/sherbrooke/) - Leaving Montreal, a bus drive through the wide Canadian landscape, endless industries and iron bridges, low skies, hills and mountains and rain and lonesome gas-stations... We reach Sherbrooke and the wonderful théâtre Granada, looking magical kind of like the Club Silencio from Mulholland Drive. People are sitting around tables in darkness, their faces dimly lit
- [Montreal Day 3](https://moriartyland.net/montreal-day-3/) - Sunday, July 1st. Canada Day (not over-celebrated in Quebec though). España supporters flood the Boulevard Saint-Laurent and explode in outbursts of raging joy, all yellow and red after the victory of eleven men on a lawn. Tonight we've been invited to play two gigs on one of the festival's main stages on the Place des
- [Montreal Day 2](https://moriartyland.net/montreal-day-2/) - Second gig at the Metropolis Savoy club; sold-out room, warm, cheerful and amazing audience. We started acoustic again with an acadian song from the Lomax archives... "j'ai pris mon char ici belle pour m'en emmener au texas belle..." Moriarty on tour, Montreal Jazz Festival, Quebec, Canada, 30.06.2012
- [Montreal Day 1](https://moriartyland.net/montreal-day-1/) - Hopped on a flight, 8 hours across the Atlantic, no sleep, aircrew with acadian accents, stories about winnipeg, manitoba, guy maddin, klondike, yukon gold rush, cree indians, les voyageurs, les 500 femmes du roi, how Canada was made / 3pm landed Montreal Trudeau airport, blinding sunlight, bands queueing for cabs to the jazz festival /
- [Fête de la Musique 2012](https://moriartyland.net/fete-de-la-musique-2012/) - The oracles said it would rain, but the storm and the hailstones went away and we played the gig in frontal sunlight, blinded and warm. Around us the eerie modernist park was for once filled with thousands of people. Inside the greenhouses the dressing rooms felt like sweatlodges. We climbed inside a tiny truck at
- [Couvent des Recollets](https://moriartyland.net/couvent-des-recollets/) - A gig in a chapel, a cloister once paced by peaceful monks, now invaded by publishers, writers, architects, party-crashers and the indomitable RKK / Rémi Kolpa-Kopoul on the turntables. Moriarty on tour, Couvent des Recollets, Paris, June 2012.
- [Kerveguen, St-Pierre (Ile de la Réunion 01.03.2013)](https://moriartyland.net/kerveguen-st-pierre-ile-de-la-reunion-01-03-2013/) - The coast is rough, strewn with driftwood and black basalt pebbles. Gigantic waves heaving and crashing on it, fierce and confident like the rougail dakatine from Ti Carri. Up dans les hauts de Saint-Pierre, le Kerveguen is a strange building, unfinished, industrial, looking like a soviet factory. Inside the venue it feels like the engine
- [Le K, St-Leu (Ile de la Réunion, 02.03.13)](https://moriartyland.net/le-k-st-leu-02-03-13/) - Awakened at 5am by invisible tropical ants running through the house along microscopic lines, eating holes in the newspaper, crawling into the bed and the suitcases, biting the skin like hot embers. Later in the day, le K (named after Dino Buzzati's sea creature?), open-air stage in the middle of the quiet seaside town of
- [Bayonne-Foix 13.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/bayonne-foix-13-12-2014/) - On the road between Pays Basque and Ariège, approaching the Pyrénées. Suddenly a strange structure appears by the side of the road, a path climbing up a steep hill, dotted with chapels: it's a Sacro Monte, depicting the stations of the cross, leading to a cemetary. We stop by and ascend all the way, maybe
- [Foix 13.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/foix-13-12-2014/) - Close to the spanish border, l'Ariège. A brownstone castle sitting on top of a rock, overlooking a quiet remote town, at the foot of the Pyrénées mountains. Warm december southern sunlight. Marketplace. Stuck between the prison and the cemetary, a gigantic theater looking like a concrete electrical power station: La Scène Nationale. Inside, it's a
- [Bayonne (Boucau)12.12.14](https://moriartyland.net/bayonne-boucau12-12-14/) - The long road along the Pyrénées, mesmerized by the snowy mountains. Back to Euskal Herria, it's been a few years since Biarritz & La Gare du Midi. The venue is old and cold, it's freezing on stage. But we gather downstairs in the dressing rooms and meet old friends, talking about underwater wine fermentation and
- [Le Metronum, Toulouse 11.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/le-metronum-toulouse-11-12-2014/) - Northern suburbs of Toulouse, new housing blocks, deserted streets. It feels a bit like the periphery of a spanish city. The Metronum is a brand new massive, exposed concrete building, only one-year old. It is finely designed, and although it still is a bit cold, it looks like it's starting to come alive. We feast
- [Florida, Agen 10.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/florida-agen-10-12-2014/) - Crossing the Landes and the pine tree forests to go down south from Cognac. Six years after, we're back in Agen & its southern feel, back to the Florida in the old dressing rooms covered with rock'n'roll stickers. Outside it's pouring rain... so we stay on stage and work on the new songs all afternoon.
- [West Rock, Cognac 09.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/west-rock-cognac-09-12-2014/) - On the road to Cognac. Sunlight again, reflected on the mirror surface of the Charente river. White stone town. The ex-slaughterhouse we're playing in has been completely refurbished since the last time we came, it now feels like a homely, cosy, welcoming place, sheltered by a thick wooden roof. This is the hometown of our
- [Silex, Auxerre 06.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/silex-auxerre-06-12-2014/) - Arrival in Auxerre, for our first time in this city; Le long de l'Yonne, the great riverfront, brown and grey buildings dominated by grand cathedrals and churches. Tonight we play a sold-out show in a new venue called the "Silex" (french for "flintstone"): a weird concrete block covered in triangular "mineral" patterns, triangular windows, triangular
- [Souris Verte, Epinal 05.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/epinal-05-12-2014/) - Dark grey skies as we cross the Vosges mountains, towards the small town of Epinal. La Souris Verte is a brand new venue, made of concrete and wood and corrugated plexiglas. The building stands where an old cinema was. It is like a labyrinth of corridors and neons and wooden slats. The acoustics on stage
- [Laiterie, Strasbourg 04.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/laiterie-strasbourg-04-12-2014/) - The Epitaph Tour: third day. A short drive from Lorraine to Alsace. De retour à la Laiterie, Strasbourg; we play in the small club in front of 200 people. A very close relationship to the audience, a way for us to focus on the new songs, without getting lost in the sound and scale of
- [Moriarty Epitaph Tour: Metz 03.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-epitaph-tour-metz-03-12-2014/) - Second concert of the Epitaph Tour, in the same chapel we played in 2008. Metz, yellow stone everywhere, art nouveau buildings, christmas markets, dragons. ----------------------- Buffalo Skinners When I Ride History Of Violence Diamonds Never Die Private Lily Ginger Joe Milena Moonshiner Ramblin'Man G.I.Jesus Little Sadie Dying Crapshooter Blues Long Live The Devil Across From
- [Moriarty Epitaph Tour: Belfort 02.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-epitaph-tour-belfort-02-12-2014/) - Back on the road with the new songs from the upcoming album "Epitaph": First gig in La Poudrière, Belfort in Eastern France. A low-slung, heavy building, formerly a gunpowder storage facility. Long deep room, 4-meter thick walls, the sound is boomy and concentrated by the barrel-vault ceiling. Above us looms the ominous fortress, sitting on
- [Cabaret Frappé, Grenoble 21.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/cabaret-frappe-grenoble-21-07-2014/) - Moriarty & Salem: "Le Bal Poussière", Cabaret Frappé, Grenoble 21.07.2014 Hard Rain falls. L'Isère flows, grey like lead. The big rocks are looming all around the city. Under the kiosk in the garden shaded by heavy trees Sena Dagadu opens the night in style. We play for a long time, the audience is the hottest
- [Les Temps Chauds 17.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/les-temps-chauds-17-07-2014/) - Moriarty & Salem: "Le Bal Poussière", Festival Les Temps Chauds, La Plaine Tonique, Montrevel-En-Bresse (Bourg-En-Bresse) 17.07.2014 Artificial lake. Drought crushing sunlight sweat burning feet on the stage standing by the lakeshore. Distant clouds and overgrown islands makes it feel like a southern bayou landscape or the everglades. Yom & Wang Li open the night at
- [Cabaret Sauvage, Paris 16.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/cabaret-sauvage-paris-16-07-2014/) - Moriarty & Salem: "Le Bal Poussière" Black Summer Festival, Cabaret Sauvage, Paris 16.07.2014. Magic Mirror Spiegeltent Heat Heat Heat / Black Summer Festival / on Whiteman Kristine slams / Blanc L'Argent / Blanc Le Pouvoir
- [Festival d'Avignon 13/14.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/festival-davignon-1314-07-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: "Griboïedov's Burning Blues", Festival d'Avignon 13/14.07.2014. At last, the southern sun. Avignon looks bright, agitated and idle at the same time. Stony city of Popes. The crisis of the intermittents runs throughout the whole thing like a needle. The shows are almost canceled in protest, then maintained at the last minute through
- [Saint-Etienne, Les 7 Collines 11.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/saint-etienne-les-7-collines-11-07-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: Festival Les Sept Collines, Saint-Etienne 11.07.2014. Feels like one long day. Waking up in Québec City in the morning and stepping on a stage in St-Etienne 30 hours later, after a long sleepless journey in vans, planes, trains, buses, cars and traffic-jams over the Atlantic Ocean. Knackered. We re-unite with Christine Salem
- [Québec - Saint Etienne 10-11.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/quebec-saint-etienne-10-11-07-2014/) - One long ride: Québec City - Montreal - Paris - Lyon - Saint-Etienne in one shot / left Québec at 1:45pm, arrived in Saint-Etienne 24 hours later, blasted... / it starts with a crazy driver from Quebec named JC, poking jokes at every sentence in his hoarse voice while driving the van like a madman
- [Festival d'été de Québec 09.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/festival-dete-de-quebec-09-07-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: Festival d'été, Québec City 09.07.2014. The familiar three-hour drive from Montreal to Québec / Arrival on top of the hill, Grande Allée / Hilton / Brutalist concrete government buildings again / An open-air stage facing a great lawn, shaded by pine trees / Short gig, too short / Sunset on the audience
- [Montreal Sessions 07.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/montreal-sessions-07-07-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: Recording in Montreal, 07 & 08.07.2014. Hot days / Mile End / Saint-Laurent & Fairmount / When I Ride / Deconstruct and reconstruct the song / turning off the A/C while recording makes the heat rise / Patience / Chaos / Confusion / Improvisation / Half-time beat / Mood / Piano /
- [Sorel-Tracy 05.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/sorel-tracy-05-07-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: Sorel-Tracy, Festival de la Gibelotte 05.07.2014 Smalltown, former industrial harbour, slightly decayed. A cargo ship seems to be parked in the middle of the houses, her rusty hull dwarfing all other buildings in town. A sturdy female sheriff in mirrored ray-bans welcomes us into town: the center - basically, three streets whose
- [Montréal Jazz Festival  (Théâtre Maisonneuve) 04.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/montreal-jazz-festival-theatre-maisonneuve-09-07-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: Théâtre Maisonneuve. Montreal Jazz Festival, 4th of July, 2014. At last we get to see the inside of that giant brutalist concrete monster: le Théâtre Maisonneuve, built in 1967 by the architects David, Barott & Boulva, looming over the Place des Arts like an artificial cantilevered mountain. No magic inside, but big
- [Sherbrooke 02.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/sherbrooke-02-07-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: Place de la Cité, Sherbrooke QC July 3rd, 2014. On the road to the east. Sherbrooke in the summer, students are gone, the streets look slightly deserted but for the drifters and oddballs at the crossroads. It's our fourth concert here. We perform on the Place de la Cité, a great empty
- [Paris-Montreal 01.07.2014](https://moriartyland.net/paris-montreal-01-07-2014/) - Moriarty on tour, Paris-Montreal 01.07.2014 Dancing at the back of the airplane while cruising over the Atlantic. Back to Montreal, a few months after our winter tour: heat and sweat. Throngs of people walking up and down Rue Sainte-Catherine for the Jazz Festival. In the night, a concert of Burning Spear at the Metropolis.
- [Café de la Danse, Paris (09.06.2011)](https://moriartyland.net/cafe-de-la-danse-paris-09-06-2011/) - Moriarty on tour: "Fugitives" with Don Cavalli & Wayne Standley, Café de la Danse, Paris, June 9th 2014. Landing in the familiar Bastille area, straight after a few days of touring the festivals. The great stone wall is still there, looming over us. We rehearse "Down In The Willow Garden" with Don Cavalli, and "Oklahoma
- [Moriarty on tour: Son du Vignoble (08.06.2014)](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-on-tour-son-du-vignoble-08-06-2014/) - Festival Son du Vignoble, Marigny-Brizay 08.06.2014. Leaving the highway, driving deep into the countryside north of Poitiers. Habitations troglodytes. Vineyards. Summer heat. Donkeys and geese. Wealthy farmhouse with wine cellars carved deep into the tuffstone ground. Tonight we play under a corrugated roof, a wine storage hangar. Reminds us of a festival in Vihiers, Anjou,
- [Moriarty + Salem: Notes en Vert (07.06.2014)](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-salem-notes-en-vert-07-06-2014/) - Le Bal Poussière, touring with Christine Salem and ger percussionists: Périgny, near La Rochelle. Blazing sunlight. Rona Hartner walking around with her daughter, father and puppy. A small stage in a park. The young festival is run by Yasmine & Pascal who setup the acoustic concert on the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de la Rochelle a
- [Moriarty + Salem: Ingrédients (06.06.2014)](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-salem-ingredients-06-06-2014/) - Moriarty with Christine Salem, "Le Bal Poussière" on tour: Festival Ingrédients, Ingré, June 6th 2014. Somewhere near Orléans: wide meadow, towering trees, stray dog, construction site. Heat. While we set up and soundcheck, Jaquee sings on the other stage. Strange reminiscence of a festival in Australia.
- [Moriarty + Salem : La Clef (05.06.2014)](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-salem-la-clef-05-06-2014/) - Moriarty with Christine Salem: La Clef, St-Germain-en-Laye (F) 05.06.2014 Four days with Christine & les tontons Harry & David, singing songs together and spicing the food with piment-kombava. We play our songs written on the Reunion Island, like "Sakalav", "Lespwar", "Mikonepa". New Moriarty songs too, like "Diamonds never die", boosted with new percussion beats. Lespwar
- [Sherbrooke 21.02.2014](https://moriartyland.net/sherbrooke-21-02-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: Théâtre Granada, Sherbrooke (Québec) 21.02.2014 Back on Sherbrooke's main street at the beloved Théâtre Granada, its 1930s Broadway flair and somewhat weathered past glory. Slush and narrow brick side alleys, candles lighting up the tables in a cabaret manner, intimate crowd underneath the grand italian-esque decorum of the music-hall. Spanish revival style,
- [Telegram from the past: Mauritius 04.03.2013](https://moriartyland.net/telegram-from-the-past-mauritius-04-03-2013/) - Moriarty on tour: acoustic concert, Conservatoire F. Mitterrand, Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius, 04.03.2013. Landing in Mauritius after one week on the nearby Reunion Island: Sugarcane fields, dragon-tooth moutains, lagoons and sprawling indian-like suburbs. At the airport a bus awaits, and while it drives across the unknown new territory, a man named Rama welcomes us with a zillion
- [Montluçon 16.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/montlucon-16-12-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: Montluçon 16.12.2014 Right in the middle of France, the deep center, Auvergne, Allier. Another remote town, surrounded by suburban grands ensembles, blocks from the fifties. Anguish. L'Embarcadère: a vast, slightly rundown venue with backstage areas feeling like an abandoned schoolhouse. The stage is low-ceilinged, and there is an ominous buzz in the
- [Bern 17.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/bern-17-12-2014/) - Moriarty on tour: Bee-Flat / Turnhalle. Bern (Switzerland) 17.12.2014 Going East: The long road from Central France to Central Switzerland. Bern, federal capital, rain, heavy feldgrau stone buildings. The Turnhalle has changed slightly since the last time we played here, in 2009. It's become cosier, with chandeliers hanging from the ceiling among the sports apparatuses
- [Genève 18.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/geneve-18-12-2014/) - Moriarty's "Epitaph" tour: acoustic session at Bongo Joe Record Store, Geneva 18.12.2014 (photos by Zim Moriarty & Emilie Blaser)
- [Nyon 19.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/nyon-19-12-2014/) - Moriarty's Epitaph Tour: L'Usine à Gaz, Nyon, Switzerland 19.12.2014 A short drive from Geneva, along the lake in the low, warm december sunlight. Arriving in front of the venue, a remodelled grey factory, stainless steel gates, a few chairs on a gravel square; we recognize the opening sequences of Jean-Luc Godard's "Adieu au Langage"... The
- [Chaux-De-Fonds 20.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/chaux-de-fonds-20-12-2014/) - Moriarty's "Epitaph" Tour: Secret acoustic show in the Crematorium, La Chaux-De-Fonds (CH) 20.12.2014 (photos by Zim Moriarty & Emilie Blaser) A special place: The Crematorium is a masterpiece of Art Nouveau architecture built in 1908 by Charles L'Eplatennier - with the help of his students from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de la Chaux-De-Fonds (among which
- [Zürich 21.12.2014](https://moriartyland.net/zurich-21-12-2014/) - Moriarty's "Epitaph" tour: Moods-Schiffbau, Zürich (CH) 21.12.2014 At last we're back in Züri. It's been two years since the Rote Fabrik. Now we get to play in the beautiful Schiffbau, a gigantic shipbuilding factory transformed into a theater, in the upbeat-trendy ex-industrial zones north of the Hauptbahnhof. Carine & Rona welcome us into the intimate
- [Marseille 12.01.2015](https://moriartyland.net/marseille-12-01-2015/) - Moriarty on tour: Théâtre de la Criée, Marseille 12.01.2015. Back in town after 4 years. Away from the grieving skies of Paris. The air is filled with sunlight and the sea is near. It feels like another planet, as we drive down to the harbour, past Notre-Dame de la Major and the ferris wheel. Reminiscence
- [Nîmes 14.01.2015](https://moriartyland.net/nimes-14-01-2015/) - Moriarty on tour: Paloma, Nîmes 14.01.2015 As we drive away from Marseille along the rocky coast, a squadron of canadair water bombers fly low overhead and drop their tons of water in the sea. We approach Nîmes, the Paloma is a brand new venue positioned in the suburban zones, a kind of spaceship-alien-cyber-architecture clad with
- [Annemasse 15.01.2015](https://moriartyland.net/annemasse-15-01-2015/) - Moriarty on tour: Château-Rouge, Annemasse 15.01.2015 It's one of the first venues we played at the beginning of the band's touring years, in a distant suburb of Geneva, on the french side of the border. We used to live there for a week, in a small house, alone in the middle of a huge parking
- [Grenoble 16.01.2015](https://moriartyland.net/grenoble-16-01-2015/) - Moriarty on tour: La Belle Electrique, Grenoble 16.01.2015 Early morning concert, live on the radio, performing "Ain't no Sunshine" with Richard Lornac, we're exhausted from a few sleepless nights. La Belle Electrique is a brand new building built by local architects Herauld & Arnod, who also built the Metaphone (where we performed a few months
- [Philharmonie II 24.01.2015](https://moriartyland.net/phliharmonie-ii-24-01-2015/) - Moriarty on tour: Philharmonie II (ex-Cité de la Musique) Paris 24.01.2015 Back in Paris, the big twisted shape of the Philharmonie rises in the smog-filled air, cranes and workers still struggling to finish the shiny cladding, while inside concerts are already taking place (and the architect notoriously refuses to appear at the inauguration and to
- [Musée de la Musique, Philharmonie II Paris 25.01.2015](https://moriartyland.net/musee-de-la-musique-philharmonie-ii-paris-25-01-2015/) - Moriarty on tour: Philharmonie II (ex-Cité de la Musique) Paris 25.01.2015 10am, next morning, warmed up by the sunny sunday, we're up to rehearse with our fellow musicians with whom we're due to play acoustic shows in the afternoon: Irshad & Nishad Ali Kawa from Rajahstan, Wayne Standley from the US & Moriba Koïta from
- [Berlin 29.01.2015](https://moriartyland.net/berlin-01-2015/) - Moriarty on tour: Berlin 29.01.2015 Back in Berlin after 3 years. January snow on Schönefeld and beige cabs. It's freezing wet. The taxi driver, speaking with the Beh'lin twang, brings us to the Park Inn on Alexanderplatz. From the 35th floor window we watch the Fernsehturm soar like a lonely needle over the flat metropolis,
- [Volksbühne Berlin 30.01.2015](https://moriartyland.net/volksbuhne-berlin-30-01-2015/) - Moriarty on tour: Volksbühne, Berlin 30.01.2015. The next morning, we approach the Volksbühne, its massive presence commanding the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, its slick greystone face punctuated by a few words: OST. HÖREN. The Stimmung, the atmosphere is haunted by a century of history, left-wing activism, social fights and demonstrations. Entering the theater one feels projected fifty years
- [Epiphany](https://moriartyland.net/epiphany-album/) - "Fifteen years ago we started accumulating homemade recordings of songs, sketches and improvisations. A few of these made their way into the studios and became album songs. Countless others remained in the shadows of our archives, unfinished, unheard, forgotten. Yet these recordings have their own kind of magic: they bear witness to the process of
- [MORIARTY :  CRÉATION RADIOPHONIQUE SUR FRANCE CULTURE   [INÉDIT]](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-creation-radiophonique-sur-france-culture-inedit/) - Chers Moriartistes, Il y a 6 ans nous étions en studio à Radio France pour enregistrer la version radio de l'aventure incroyable du Maître et Marguerite, le grand roman russe de Mikhaïl Boulgakov. Écoutez les versions préhistoriques de "Long Live The Devil", "Across From My Windows", "Fire Fire" et Rosemary dans le rôle de Marguerite
- [WATI WATIA ZOREY BAND - Zanz In Lanfér](https://moriartyland.net/wati-watia-zorey-band-zanz-in-lanfer/) - SORTIE DE L'ALBUM LE 24 JUIN / CONCERT UNIQUE LE 14 JUIN AU CABARET SAUVAGE (Paris) ALBUM RELEASE ON JUNE 24th / ONE-OFF CONCERT ON JUNE 14th AT "LE CABARET SAUVAGE" (Paris) FR Cet album est issu de la rencontre entre MORIARTY et MARJOLAINE KARLIN, suite à leurs nombreux voyages sur l’Ile de la Réunion.
- [Pont du Rock](https://moriartyland.net/pont-du-rock/) - Back to Brittany. Loudness. Tall trees. Warm crowds. Fog. Quiet red sunset. Moriarty's Missing Room tour, festival Pont du Rock, Malestroit (F), July 29th 2011.
- [MORIARTY NEEDS YOU!](https://moriartyland.net/moriarty-needs-you/) - Do you like the smell of negative film and the sweet purring sound of 16mm movie cameras ? Can you stand the blazing heat of the spotlights burning your face for hours? Moriarty needs you as an extra for a movie shoot ! On Sunday (6pm till... midnight) we will shoot the new video for
- [Salle Gaveau, Pour le Japon, samedi 30 Avril 2011](https://moriartyland.net/salle-gaveau-pour-le-japon-samedi-30-avril-2011/) - Moriarty will be performing a few songs for Japan among a hundred other artists, Saturday night @ Salle Gaveau, Paris. http://www.sallegaveau.com/japon/
- [New website on its way](https://moriartyland.net/new-website-on-the-way/) - Welcome to Moriartyland.

## Pages

- [MORIARTY](https://moriartyland.net/) - Welcome to Moriartyland. | Discover our last release: “Echoes from the Borderline" (Photobook + Double Live Album ) - Live recordings & Auto-bootlegs / Analog
- [Birds On A Wire (Rosemary Standley & Dom la Nena)](https://moriartyland.net/moriartysfriends/birds-on-a-wire-rosemary-standley-dom-la-nena/) - “Le duo fait planer un esprit baroque sur Tom Waits, Caetano Veloso ou Fairuz. Et enchante par sa sobriété et son raffinement.” Télérama ƒƒƒ
- [Contact](https://moriartyland.net/contact/) - Get in touch with us. Professional area access also stands here.
- [Wati Watia Zorey Band “ZANZ IN LANFER”](https://moriartyland.net/moriartysfriends/wati-watia-zorey-band-zanz-in-lanfer/) - Wati Watia Zorey Band (Moriarty & Marjolaine Karlin & friends) present “ZANZ IN LANFER”, first album released on June 24th 2016
- [Moriarty meets Mama Rosin](https://moriartyland.net/moriartysfriends/mamarosin/) - D’une première rencontre est née une collaboration de deux groupes passionnés par leurs créations respectives. Après avoir invité Mama Rosin sur des cartes blanches à plusieurs reprises (Festival du bout du monde en 2011, Festival Interceltique de Lorient en 2012), l’envie de pousser plus loin cette rencontre artistique s’est vite faite sentir. Elle s’est donc
- [Videos](https://moriartyland.net/videos/) - Find some Moriarty's videos here.
- [Echoes From The Borderline (Photobook + Double CD)](https://moriartyland.net/music/echoes-from-the-borderline-photobook/) - Dear Moriarty friends, We are proud to announce that the photo-book is now ready for release: as the final chapter of our live project “Echoes From The Borderline”.
- [Echoes From The Borderline (Live Album)](https://moriartyland.net/music/echoes-from-the-borderline-live-album/) - “ECHOES FROM THE BORDERLINE” Moriarty's Double Live album. Released on November 10th 2017.
- [Epiphany](https://moriartyland.net/music/epiphany/) - EPIPHANY: ALL THE BOXES HAVE BEEN FOUND! Listen to the full album streaming on our website.
- [Epitaph](https://moriartyland.net/music/epitaph/) - Moriarty's fourth album starts where "The Missing Room" ended: at the threshold of another world - the realm of spirits, ghosts and wandering souls. It is not -however- an album about death, but rather a journey through a land known as the "Underworld", or the "Afterworld". In 2014, after a few years of touring, we
- [Fugitives](https://moriartyland.net/music/fugitives/) - Before Dylan, before Robert Zimmermann, there were ancestors, songwriters and bluesmen named Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Willie McTell... There were songs, too, that were transmitted from generation to generation, without any known author or accurate origins. Haunted by these ghosts and in the company of a few connoisseurs - Wayne Standley,
- [The Missing Room](https://moriartyland.net/music/the-missing-room/) - During the fall of 2012, as we were performing the show "Memories From The Missing Room", directed by Marc Lainé at the Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris, we decided to film a song within the stage set, a strange rotating motel room. With our accomplice Clément Deuve - a photographer and filmmaker accustomed to
- [Gee Whiz but This Is a Lonesome Town](https://moriartyland.net/music/gee-whiz-but-this-is-a-lonesome-town/) - Listen to Gee Whiz but This Is a Lonesome Town (Deluxe Edition): Listen to ...
- [Music](https://moriartyland.net/music/) - Click on the album you'd like to listen to, and find further information:
- [Astéréotypie](https://moriartyland.net/moriartysfriends/astereotypie/) - Nous célébrons l’arrivée d’un nouveau groupe chez Air Rytmo : l’extraordinaire groupe de rock (en français !) : ASTEREOTYPIE.
- [Moriarty & friends](https://moriartyland.net/moriartysfriends/) - Discover the side projects of Moriarty's members: Watia Wati Zorey Band, Birds on the Wire, Astéréotypie…
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- [Tour](https://moriartyland.net/tour/) - Tour dates.
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- [Matty Groves](https://moriartyland.net/matty-groves/) - PRESENTENT EN EXCLUSIVITE LE NOUVEAU CLIP DE MORIARTY 'MATTY GROVES' REALISE PAR : Loo Hui Phang - ANIME PAR : Philippe Dupuy La video a l'univers visuel empreint d'onirisme relate la tragedie d'un amour impossible. Une belle occasion de se laisser transporter par la poesie et l'authenticite des balades folk du groupe. Depuis sa fameuse
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