Connan Mockasin ‘Please Turn Me Into The Snat’

Connan Mockasin ‘Please Turn Me Into The Snat’ Out Feb 22

Monday February 22, 2010 will see the highly anticipated New Zealand release of Connan Mockasin’s debut album - ‘Please Turn Me Into The Snat’.

Written and recorded over the past 18-months, from East Sussex in the UK to an abandoned haunted house in Wellington, the album introduces the listener to the amazing world of Connan Mockasin - from cats with larger-than-life personalities, unicorns in uniform, to alter egos such as Don Dicaprio.

The first single ‘Megumi The Milkyway Above’ has received huge radio airplay throughout NZ leaving listeners eagerly wanting more.

New Single & Free download:

We are pleased to announce the second single ‘Its Choade My Dear’ written about about the normal, boring and more and more reckless life of the Quadropuss. The addictive song will be serviced to radio in the near future and offered as a free download for a limited time! Stay tuned for more details!

Online Video Interview Posted:

Be kept up to date with a series of online video interviews – the first of which has just been posted and see’s Samuel Flynn Scott of The Phoenix Foundation talk to Connan about Dolphin love, Choades, the new album...and other irrelevant topics at the Car Club in Wellington. Watch now @ www.connanmockasin.com

Since relocating to the UK from his New Zealand over three years ago, Connan Mockasin has charmed audiences everywhere; from Hyde Park (where he played alongside the White Stripes) and Green Man Festival (Robert Plant, Joanna Newsom) to London’s legendary Durr club, where he remains the only artist to have been invited back three times. He has collaborated with Fatboy Slim on a track for the DJ/producer’s new album Brighton Port Authority, which also includes contributions from David Byrne and Iggy Pop.

Creativity has always been Connan’s engine. Growing up in rural Hawkes Bay, he was already playing guitar in a blues band by the age of ten while pursuing overlapping interests in art and invention. In 2004 he formed the trio Connan and the Mockasins who toured tirelessly, initially in New Zealand, then in Europe, releasing a pair of successful EPs, plus a single, “Sneaky Sneaky Dogfriend” for EMI’s distinguished Parlophone label. The first pressing sold out in just days.

The group dissolved in 2008, leaving Connan free to collaborate with a wide variety of musicians as he developed his singular ideas, the first fruits of which can be found in Connan Mockasin’s self-titled set.

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