History
“Holes through the past
and the days to come”
[“Merry-go-round” July 2001]
Shepherd Moons, previously known as
Satyricon, was founded in 1974 by songwriter and bass player H.W. Gade. From the
beginning, the band was designed to play blues, Rock’n’roll and ballads with an
intellectual perspective, mixing traditional style elements with sharp lyrics
and deliberate cracks in the stylistic surface. The songs have a distinct sound
of their own, ironic, desperate and painful as they often are. The happy
Rock’n’roll is combined with modern classical music traits like odd rhythms and
strange chords. It’s an original style with a seemingly simple form, carrying
complex messages and provoking lyrics. The style and spirit of the songs are
close to the music of bands like the Who, Nirvana, Chuck Berry and R.E.M.
Table
of Contents
What
does the Name “Shepherd Moons” Mean?
Live
Repertoire and Back Catalogue
Shepherd Moons is a “project band” with
changing musicians from record to record. After a long period of song writing
from 1974-80, the first Danish album “Tavshed“ was released in 1982 followed by
the second English album “Moonlit Nights” in 1983. There was no touring and the
musicians split after the recording sessions. In 1990, a new single “The
Ballroom” was released and the first Satyricon live tour ever took place in Denmark
during the summer of 1990. A third album “Puzzled” was planned for release in
1991, but was stopped due to the general bad situation in the record industry
in Denmark at the time.
In the Spring of 2001, H.W. Gade decided to
start the band anew. Almost a year went with arrangements and composing. After
a great deal of problems getting the right musicians, the band was finally
ready in April 2002. The rest of the year, the band rehearsed a repertoire of
about 30 songs, partly from the old songs (1974-1982), the 1990’ies song and
brand new songs written in 2001 and 2002. The first recordings took place in
2001 and 2003 (single CD’s). In 2004, the first new album “Puzzled” was
released. The band is still a concept band, led by H.W. Gade working with guest
musicians.
What does the Name “Shepherd Moons” Mean?
The band Shepherd Moons is named after an
astronomical phenomenon connected to the rings around Saturn. During the last
NASA visit, it was discovered that some of the rings (consisting of dust and
pebbles) was held in place by small moons, nicknamed “Shepherd Moons”. Henrik
from the band chose the name, as he has always been fascinated by astronomy.
The old band name Satyricon was abandoned
as a bunch of Death Metal guys in Norway stole the name in 1991, and because we
don’t want to be confused with that kind of music. Our old satyr logo, drawn by
Danish artist Geert Daae Funder in 1983, still remains though.
2008 Shepherd Moons Animals
1 Animals
(1974)
2 Haunted
House (2007)
3 Sweet
Child (2002)
4 Share
the Tears (2002)
5 Happy
Birthday (2006)
6 Jericho
(1991)
7 Gul
hřst (2006)
8 Into
the sorrow (2006)
9 Black
Giraffe (2007)
10 Life (1979)
11 Rainy Sunday (2006)
12 Rocket
Science (2006)
[Record Company: NORDISC, Digital Books™]
2007 Shepherd Moons Blues
1 Seacruise
IV (1979)
2 Demolition
Man (2001)
3 Too
Close to be Friends (2001)
4 Farmer
Blues (2005)
5 Heroes
of the Road (1978)
6 Wrong
Number Blues (1991)
7 Blues
for old Acquaintance (1975)
8 Schizophrenia
(1974)
9 It
is the Truth (2005)
10 New York Boogie Woogie (1995)
11 Cliffhanger (2005)
12 Drej 000
for hjćlp (1967 Eik Skalře/Stig Mřller)
[Record Company: NORDISC, Digital Books™]
2006 Shepherd Moons Home
1 Stonewall
(2005)
2 Nothing
You May Say (1974)
3 Rendezvous
Berlin (2005)
4 Embracing
You (1990)
5 Home
(1979)
6 Lost
(2005)
7 Choose
Your Way (2004)
8 Broken
Circles (2001)
9 Two
+ Two (2001)
10 Full Moon (1982)
11 At 25 (2005)
12 Pilot Lights (2005)
[Record
Company: NORDISC, Digital Books™]
2005 Shepherd Moons Quicksilver Boy
1 Quicksilver
Boy (2004)
2 Bad
Soldiers (2004)
3 Soul
Mate (2004)
4 The
River (1995)
5 Restless
Boy (1974)
6 Tiger
Baby (2004)
7 Beyond
the Border (1974)
8 The
Ballroom (1989)
9 Pitbull
City (2001)
10 Shadow Dancing (2003)
11 Sexy Ivy (2001)
12 Rasende dreng (2004)
13 Dřdsorgasme
(1974)
14 Floden (1995)
[Record
Company: NORDISC, Digital Books™]
2004 Shepherd Moons Puzzled
1 Love's So Easy (1992)
2 The last Love Affair (1980)
3 Exactly
(2003)
4 Teach me to Speak my Soul (2002)
5 Claustrophobia
(1974)
6 Merry-go-round (2001)
7 Trust (2001)
8 Football (2003)
[Record
Company: NORDISC, Digital Books™]
1983 Satyricon Moonlit Nights
1 Schizophrenia (1974)
Cold
as Ice
(1975)
Angst (1974)
Claustrophobia (1974)
Bugs (1974)
The Ballad of Clark Olafsson (1976)
2 Full Moon (1982)
Restless
Boy
(1974)
Birds
over the Sea
(1974)
Blues
for Ol’ Acquaintance
(1975)
Au Revoir Monsieur (1975)
[Record Company: Musikpress Booking
(NORDISC)]
1982 Satyricon Tavshed
1 Den kolde douche (1977)
4 vćgge (1977)
Respiratorkćrlighed (1978)
Aftenland, farvel! (1977)
2 Motivation (1978)
Bekend kulřr (1978)
Du er aldrig alene (1978)
[Record Company: Forlaget Drama /
Musikpres]
All the Shepherd Moons songbooks will be
published as a complete songbook in 2010!
2009 Last Songs
2008 Jazz Ballads
2007 Andalus
2006 Odd Ballads
2005 Roll Over
Stravinsky
2004 Symphonic
2003 Fuzzy Logic
2002 Who’s to Go?
2001 Shepherd Moons
Songbook 1974-2001
(Digital
compilation of the old printed songbooks and later songs)
1987 Closing
Hours
(out of print)
1986 Shalom (out of print)
1984 Moonlit
Nights
(out of print)
2009 New album “Animal Mother” released in October.
2007 The concept album “Blues” was released in
May. A new guitar player, Michael Venneberg Carlsen joins the band.
2006 Another album “Home” was released in
April. The long awaited first tour since 1990 began in May with 11 concerts in
Denmark. Morten leaves the band.
2005 New
album “Quicksilver Boy”. The sax player Morten Hansen is added to the
group. The old records from before year 2000 returned to life on the DiGiDi net
after 10-20 years of silence, including the first Satyricon record, “Tavshed”
(in Danish!).
2004 The third Shepherd Moons album “Puzzled”
(named after the abandoned album from 1991) was released in April 2004. Morten
is back as a guest musician together with singer/guitarist Jesper Brix and bass
player Paul Felbo.
2003 January: Release of “Bicycle Craze”. Big hopes. April:
The live market has collapsed and there will be no jobs. Morten and Adam leaves
the band. August: Thomas stops making music, and Henrik is now alone
again in his old concept band. Henrik decides to sing himself.
2001-2 Henrik tries again. This time, the band is
renamed Shepherd Moons. After a long search, Henrik finds Thomas Vilhelm on
vocal, Morten Jakobsen on guitar and Adam Dicker on drums. In December 2002,
the band finally records their first funk single “Bicycle Craze”. A new
Satyricon has reappeared from the shadows.
1991 Some Norwegian …... nicks the name
“Satyricon”.
1989-91 Henrik starts the band anew, this time
with the young singer Louise Rasmussen. They record a new single “The Ballroom”
and tours Denmark as a duo in the summer of 1990. A drummer, Henrik Ratje,
another singer Peter Bom and a guitarist, Jim Sharef are hired and intense
rehearsals take place from September 1990 to January 1991, when NORDISC gets
into an economical storm and is forced to close the promising album project
“Puzzled”, which included songs as “Embracing you” and “Money Talks”.
1984 The “Moonlit Night” album is very well
received by the newspapers and gets played in the radio. But the band splits,
while guitarist Tonny Biilgreen is away on a 3 month tour to Nepal. A new
singer Helen is hired, but as Henrik and Tonny’s new record company NORDISC
takes all the time of the two gentlemen, Satyricon takes a long break.
1983 Early in 1983, Lisbet Hess is replaced by
Sidsel From on vocal. The album “Moonlit Nights” is released in December 1983.
1982 The band now consists of Gade (bass),
Lisbet Hess (vocal), Tonny Biilgreen (guitar) and Piotr Paluch (drums). In
February, the band records the first album “Tavshed” for a musical written by
H.W. Gade. During the summer, the recording of a new album starts.
1981 A live band including H.W. Gade on bass,
Finn Jensen on guitar and Thorbjřrn Ćbeltoft on drums tours in Denmark. After a
while, Gade decides to replace the musicians.
1980 The best of the songs are translated into
English and arranged.
1975-80 While Henrik’s Danish band Nekropolis
records and tours, he is also busy writing songs for his “phantom” band
Satyricon, 10 song collections over 6 years, about 150 songs in all.
1974 Satyricon started by Henrik W. Gade
June
1974, first (and only) live concert under the name Satyricon in the 1970’ies
First
song collection (1 of 10)
Live Repertoire and Back Catalogue
Live
Repertoire and back catalogue as of October
2009
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First
Set |
Second
Set |
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1 |
Nothing
you may Say (gitte) |
14 |
Sexy
Ivy (hwg) |
|
2 |
Broken
Circles (hwg/gitte) |
15 |
Seacruise
IV (gitte) |
|
3 |
Trust
(hwg) |
16 |
Animal
Mother (hwg) |
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4 |
Demolition
Man (gitte) |
17 |
Heroes
of the Road (gitte) |
|
5 |
Claustrophobia
(hwg) |
18 |
Beyond
the Border (hwg) |
|
6 |
Dead
Man Walking (gitte) |
19 |
Blues
for ol' Aquaintance (gitte) |
|
7 |
Farmer
Blues (hwg) |
20 |
Wrong
Number Blues (hwg/gitte) |
|
8 |
The
last Loveaffair (gitte) |
21 |
Embracing
you (gitte) |
|
9 |
The
Ballroom (gitte) |
22 |
Merry-go-round
(gitte) |
|
10 |
It
is the Truth (hwg/gitte) |
23 |
Love's
So Easy (gitte) |
|
11 |
New
York B W (gitte) |
24 |
Rocket
Science (hwg/gitte) |
|
12 |
Haunted
House (gitte) |
25 |
Drej
000 for hjćlp (gitte) |
|
13 |
Pilot
Light (gitte) |
GL = Gitte Lund HWG = H.W. Gade
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Back Catalogue |
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Waters
rising above your sanctuaries |
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Nothing
you may Say |
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Animal
Mother |
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Beyond
the Border |
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Au Revoir Monsieur |
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Claustrophobia |
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Schizophrenia |
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Restless
Boy |
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|
Blues
for ol' Acquaintance |
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Shalom |
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Heroes
of the Road |
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Seacruise
IV |
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Home |
|
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The
last Loveaffair |
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Skeleton
Rose |
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City
Lights |
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Grande
Finale (All Dressed in White) |
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Full
Moon |
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The
Ballroom |
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Embracing
you |
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Wrong
Number Blues |
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Jericho |
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The
River |
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New
York Boogie Woogie |
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Love's
So Easy |
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Clouds
(Winter) |
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Hard
to tell |
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Doubts |
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Demolition
Man |
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Sexy
Ivy |
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Two
+ Two |
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|
Trust |
|
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Merry-go-round |
|
|
Broken
Circles |
|
|
Too
Close to be Friends |
|
|
Who's
to go? |
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Black
Car |
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Slomo |
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Make
up your mind, Silly |
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Share
the Tears |
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Bicycle
Craze |
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Shadow
Dancing |
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Sweet
Child |
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Silver
Spring |
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Spinter
Skills |
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Exactly |
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Echelon
Blues |
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|
Football |
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Journey |
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Quicksilver
Boy |
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Lost |
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Rendezvous
Berlin |
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Dead
Man Walking |
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|
It
is the Truth |
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Farmer
Blues |
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|
Life |
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Roll over Stravinsky |
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Pilot
Light |
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At
25 |
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After
the Flood |
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Healing
the Wounds |
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Into
the Sorrow |
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In
Maverick Times |
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So
Last Year |
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Rainy
Sunday |
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Rocket
Science |
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Metamorphosis |
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