Des de Moor
Des de Moor (Born Ipswich, Suffolk, England, 20 April 1961) is a writer, singer, musician and songwriter. His first performance in front of a paying audience was in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England in June 1976. He worked with local bands and performed in folk clubs in the Hertford area during the late 1970s and 1980s before moving to London in 1985. In 1987 he formed The Irresistible Force with Morris Gould aka Mixmaster Morris, releasing two singles and several remixes and performing in Britain and the Netherlands.
After dissolving his partnership with Gould late in 1989, de Moor re-emerged in 1993 as an acoustic performer specialising in European-influenced chanson, theatre song and musical cabaret. In December 1995 he launched Pirate Jenny's club at the Vortex Jazz Club in London, presenting other artists specialising in this style of music. The club transferred to The Drill Hall, London, in 2004.
Apart from Pirate Jenny's, de Moor's best known work to date is Darkness and Disgrace, an adaptation of David Bowie songs in cabaret/chanson style created in collaboration with pianist Russell Churney, originally performed in 2001 and recorded in 2003 (see Darkness and Disgrace: Des de Moor and Russell Churney Perform the Songs of David Bowie.
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- Darkness and Disgrace - the songs of David Bowie released: 2003
Darkness and Disgrace - the songs of David Bowie
Released 2003- Future Legend / Bewitched
- Diamond Dogs
- It's No Game
- The Man Who Sold The World
- Look Back In Anger
- We are the Dead
- Lady Stardust
- London Boys
- Boys Keep Swinging
- The Bewlay Brothers
- Be My Wife
- Always Crashing in the Same Car
- Be My Wife (Reprise)
- Life on Mars?
- Please Mr Gravedigger
- Station to Station
- All the Madmen
- The Buddha of Suburbia
- 'Heroes' / Kopf bis Fuss
- I have not been to Oxford Town
- Time
- All the Young Dudes
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by Quietdrive
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by Diante Do Trono
15 Days Tomorrow
by: QuietdriveYou say leave me alone
And later call me on the phone
What was I thinking then?
Why do you not give in?
You tell me all the time
That I need to get in line
What do you want from me?
What part do you not see?
I hear you met someone else
And are no longer by yourself
I guess that’s good for you
No longer will you
Worry
About me
[Chorus:]
But opportunity
Is knocking at the door
And it’s coming more slowly
Than it ever has before
You’re wasting your time
I’m really all decided
My mind is made up
My head is not divided
I want to have a victory
No complicated history
A simple faded memory
Is all you could become to me
No kind words
No sweet things
No insults
And bad dreams
Anymore
It’s still raining in my head
Though good morning’s poked her head
Leaving the clock upright
Ticking right on the wall
How could it stop a man
Who never could remain
Another wasted time
Another waste
Did you know it
Gone all night
[Chorus]
I want to have a victory
No complicated history
A simple faded memory
Is all you could become to me
No kind words
No sweet things
No insults
No bad dreams
Anymore