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Momus has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 12 episodes and was first played on 21 September 2015.

Nick Currie (born February 11, 1960 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a songwriter, writer, blogger and artist. Most of his songs are self-referential or postmodern.

For more than twenty years he has been releasing, to only marginal commercial and critical success, playful and transgressive albums on labels in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. In his lyrics and his other writing he makes seemingly random use of decontextualized pieces of continental (mostly French) philosophy, and has built up a personal world he says is "dominated by values like diversity, orientalism, and a respect for otherness." He is also known in certain circles outside the U.S. as a producer. He is fascinated by identity, Japan, the avant-garde, time travel and sex. Live Momus shows are rare but when he does perform he often sings the crowd favourite 'maf' from the Stars Forever LP. He wears a patch over his right eye because he lost the use of it after contracting acanthamoeba keratitis from a contact lens case washed with Greek tap water.

Nick Currie currently resides in Osaka, Japan.

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Momus

Momus has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 12 episodes and was first played on 21 September 2015.

Nick Currie (born February 11, 1960 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a songwriter, writer, blogger and artist. Most of his songs are self-referential or postmodern.

For more than twenty years he has been releasing, to only marginal commercial and critical success, playful and transgressive albums on labels in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. In his lyrics and his other writing he makes seemingly random use of decontextualized pieces of continental (mostly French) philosophy, and has built up a personal world he says is "dominated by values like diversity, orientalism, and a respect for otherness." He is also known in certain circles outside the U.S. as a producer. He is fascinated by identity, Japan, the avant-garde, time travel and sex. Live Momus shows are rare but when he does perform he often sings the crowd favourite 'maf' from the Stars Forever LP. He wears a patch over his right eye because he lost the use of it after contracting acanthamoeba keratitis from a contact lens case washed with Greek tap water.

Nick Currie currently resides in Osaka, Japan.

Original source: Last.fm

Tracks featured on

Most played tracks

Afterglow
Momus
Creation Records1992
Closer To You
Momus
Creation Records1987
Spacewalk
Momus
Creation Records1992
The Other Side Of You
Stereo Total (Laila France, Momus mix)
Bungalow1997
The Painter And His Model
Momus
Creation Records1991
Marquis Of Sadness
Momus
Creation Records1991
The Symphonies Of Beethoven
Momus
Le Grand Magistery1998
What Will Death Be Like?
Momus
Creation Records1986
Going For A Walk With A Line
Momus
Analog Baroque2001
Marquis Of Sadness
Momus
Creation Records1991