Momus

Nick Currie (born February 11,1960 in Paisley, Scotland), more popularly known by the pseudonym Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a songwriter and blogger. Most of his songs are self-referential and/or postmodern. For more

Nick Currie (born February 11,1960 in Paisley, Scotland), more popularly known by the pseudonym Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a songwriter and blogger. Most of his songs are self-referential and/or postmodern. For more than twenty years he has been releasing playful and transgressive albums on labels in Britain, America, and Japan, building up a personal world dominated by values like diversity, orientalism, and a respect for otherness. He is also well known outside the U.S. as a producer. He is fascinated by identity, Japan, the avant-garde, time travel, and sex. He also wears a patch over his right eye because he lost use of it from contracting amoebic keratitis.

He began by recording post-punk material with various ex-members of Josef K in the early '80s, and was associated with the musicians around Postcard Records (although he never recorded for that label). However, in 1987 he moved to London and signed to Creation records, and began to record the hyper-literate, quirky pop songs for which he is best known. Around 1992, however, when Creation signed Oasis, his music started to sound out of place on the newer, more 'laddish' and commercial sounds Creation then started to produce, and he moved to Paris and signed to Cherry Red records. Since then he has lived in various countries and, whilst less popular in Britain, has had a reasonable level of commercial success in a number of countries (especially Japan).