MOBY LIVE AT MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

For immediate release
October 10, 2000

MOBY LIVE AT MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

Wednesday, October 25 at 8 PM in Chapin Auditorium

SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts—Music maverick Moby will perform live in intimate Chapin Auditorium at Mount Holyoke College on Wednesday, October 25 at 8 PM. The concert's special guest will be Hybrid. Advance tickets are available at B-Side Records in Northampton, For the Record in Amherst, and all Strawberry Record stores. Online tickets may be purchased at www.tickets.comor the public may phone 800-477-6849. Tickets are $20 for general admission. The concert is sponsored by The Network, a student organization, of Mount Holyoke College.

From house innovator to techno punk originator to thrash metal rocker and soundtrack composer, Moby, née Richard Hall, is known for his diverse musical abilities. His hit album Play, which debuted in June of 1999 and has reached gold or platinum in ten countries, brought Moby two Grammy nominations. Playfeatures field recordings of African American folk music and has received critical praise from a variety of top-tier publications. Of it, The Los Angeles Timeswrote, "Moby opens the door to 21st-century pop in this liberating work."

Moby is a direct descendant of Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick.He grew up in Connecticut and started classical guitar at 10. As a teenager, he was involved in rock, punk, and new wave bands. His first singles in the 1980s, such as Go, were staples of the rave scene, and it was through such early successes that he was viewed as a leader of the electronic music revolution. But, by 1995, with the release of Everything is Wrong,Moby's music had blossomed into a more eclectic style, as this work blended house, jungle, rock and thrash. Animal Rightsin 1996, The End of Everything,and I Like to Scorein 1997 all quickly followed, which solidified his reputation as a music maverick.

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