Sat 30th March 8:30pm
The Moth Body plays a sparkling admixture of Eighties post-punk and Ninetiesalternative / dark-wave influences. Sam Sejavka’s clever, emotive, often eccentric songwriting is most often compared to that of early David Bowie.
The most arresting aspect of their act is the interplay of Sejavka’s seasoned vocals with those of his long time collaborator and guitarist Lisa Gibbs. The band is theatrical in its essence and difficult to ignore on stage, with Gibbs’ intense concentration on her work and her captivating presence. Sejavka, still at heart an old school front-man, echoes his words with movement and gesture.
The current act is a paring down of the original Moth Body which existed between 2014 to 2017. It was a full band which included, notably, Donald Baldie (Crime & The City Solution) and Phaedra Press (Womnal). Towards the end of their run, they released Tweaker in the Stairwell, a six song EP.
Post-Covid, Gibbs and Sejavka elected to reform the band in a simplified form, using backing tracks to fill out the sound. The idea immediately bore fruit with interest growing exponentially and culminating with a performance in Sevajka’s ancestral country of Latvia in the Summer of 2023.
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