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Kevin Paul Mooney (born 5 May 1962, Greenwich, London, England) is an Irish rock bassist and guitarist who has worked with Adam Ant, Sinéad O'Connor, and others. ==Career== Mooney began His Musical career in 1977 with Anglo Irish Punk Band The European Cowards, in collaboration with John Keogh and rebel rouser John Herlihy. He was then enlisted as the bass player for Adam and the Ants, between 1980 and 1981, appearing on the album ''Kings of the Wild Frontier''. After leaving the band because of personal conflict and creative differences, he formed the band Wide Boy Awake with best friend John Keogh and Horace Carter Allan. Wide Boy Awake released two EPs in the UK, including songs "Chicken Outlaw", "Billy Hyena", "Bona Venture" and "Slang Teacher", some of which appear on 1980s various-artists compilations. The band were managed by Mooney's then-wife Pamela Rooke also known as the Lovely Jordan. "Billy Hyena" was accompanied by a music video directed by Derek Jarman. Wide Boy Awake disbanded soon after without releasing a full album of music. During this period, Mooney guested on Sinéad O'Connor's album ''The Lion and the Cobra'', writing and playing guitar on one track "Just Call Me Joe", featuring Leslie Winer on backup spoken vocal. Next, Mooney formed the band Max (not to be confused with the Japanese vocal group MAX) with Leslie Winer, a former associate of William S. Burroughs, plus John Keogh,Kumar Desai, and John Wright. The band recorded an unreleased album, featuring guitar work by another Adam Ant collaborator, Marco Pirroni. Mooney formed a new version of Max, which released a drug induced Soft Rock middle of the road album called ''Silence Running'', produced by Trevor Horn, but the band dissolved in the wake of money problems and drug-related deaths. Mooney relocated to Florida and then to Boston with Winer but returned to the UK briefly in 2001. (Now resident in Berlin.) Mooney worked with Artist Leslie Winer as part of Electronic Group "C" on the Albums (Witch) and (Spider). In the early 2000s,Mooney formed another band, the Lavender Pill Mob, led by Gary Asquith, a former member of Rema Rema, Mass and Renegade Soundwave, with Harley Price, and Lee Simeone. This group recorded two albums (''The Lavender Pill Mob'' and ''Mike's Bikes''), released independently; the second album featured guest vocals by Adam Ant on one song. In 2008, Mooney co-founded the S.A.H.I. organization (Societee Anomyme des Hermites Inconnu) With Frau Bettina La Gachette. As of 2015, Mooney and La Gachette now run an Artistic and Political-Hermit website known as "Hermit Group 1.org." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin Mooney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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