ON TRACK: Chuck Mosley in the Total MK hotseat

Chuck Mosley is back in play, and back in the UK.


As frontman with Faith No More, Chuck recorded two albums, but inter-band difficulties and rumours of substance abuse saw him bow out in 1988.


A stint fronting hardcore punkers Bad Brains followed, and then he formed Cement, who left two albums in their wake.


On a tour in support of the second album, Man with the Action Hair, the band's driver fell asleep, resulting in a major accident which left Mosley with a broken back and a year long recovery time.  The band dissolved.


A move to Ohio followed where Mosley raised a family and worked as a chef.  Music remained a constant though, and he honed new material along the way.


In 2010 he made an appearance on stage with FNM in San Francisco - his first with the band since that split in '88, but more followed, and earlier this summer he joined Roddy Bottum and co. for an intimate date at the Troubadour in Hollywood.
He was joined by longterm FNM frontman Mike Patton for a duet on Introduce Yourself.


But this isn't a rose-tinted memory piece.


As we said, Chuck is still active, and has a solid new band (Indoria), and album (You'll Never Make The Six) to his name.
On Saturday night, he'll carve out live slabs at The Craufurd Arms in Wolverton as part of the Reintroduce Yourself tour.


Tickets are on sale now.

Chuck went On track with Total MK...


The song that first awakened your musical senses 

I Wanna Hold Your Hand by the Beatles opened my mind when I was three years old. Then at 12, Hang On To Yourself exploded my mind. 

Physical or digital - how do you take your music? 

Physical 

The first time you thought 'Music - this is the job for me' 

12 years old taking piano lessons and I heard Bowie for the first time. Everything changed then. 

Your best on stage memory..

Aside from the time a woman came onstage and tried to...it was when Billy jumped up with my band VUA for a song in Chile a couple years back and reminded how fun it was to play with those guys. 

And the worst gig you've ever done 

A Haircuts That Kill show ended with of us fighting each other onstage. 

What made you take up singing 

The inability of my band, Haircuts That Kill, to secure a real singer 


Which one song by another artist do you wish you'd have written 

Old Man by Neil Young 

And one - by yourself  - which holds special significance 

Crab Song by Faith No More, Nameless by VUA, Mark Bowen by Faith No More 


If you could step into the shoes of another musician, living or dead, who would it be and what would you do? 

Mark Bolan, and I wouldn't get into the car. (Thanks to Andy for the idea) 

Are there any current musical influences that you might look to 
Mogwai 

And any genre of music that you simply can't stand? 

The current pop filling the radio...70's cheesy pop was way better. 

Finally, plug your show at The Craufurd Arms in Milton Keynes - what can we expect? 

A recent review of a show said, "Wicked, chaotic, brilliance" so let's go with that, ha! 

 

To book tickets visit www.thecraufurdarms.com