“Defending animals is my job now”: Moby, electro star, will return to the stage in Europe in autumn to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his cult album Play and will donate profits to organizations that share their struggles.
These are the American’s first concerts in more than ten years. Moby, 58, also releases new album on Friday Always focused at nightwhich is named after his label created in June 2022, in which he collaborates with many artists.
“But 99% of the show on my European tour in September will be based on the albums Play (1999), 18 (2002) or Hotel (2005), I want to give people what they want to hear, otherwise it would be selfish,” explains the artist, accompanied by AFP in a video from the United States.
At the Zénith in Paris on September 24
The hits of the album Playsold more than 12 million copies worldwide, as Porcelain, Natural blues AND Why does my heart feel so bad?will resonate at the Zénith in Paris on September 24.
His tour will also visit Manchester, London, Antwerp, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Lausanne in September. “Bands like Radiohead, who don’t play anymore Creep (one of his hits), I don’t understand it,” the artist continues.
Trump “hates animals”
Moby has a huge tattoo of “Animal” on one arm and “Rights” on the other. “I also have +Vegan for life+ on my neck, I have been vegan for 37 years,” confesses the musician. “I love making music, but it’s a peaceful and happy refuge for me, it’s not a job anymore, defending animals is my job now.”
To defend the cause that interests him, Moby acts “strategically”, seeking to “identify” where he can help the most among “the political, philanthropic, media, etc.”
“I don’t like going to Washington, but sometimes I go there to put pressure on the US administration,” he explains. He admits that the presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump complicates things.
In Biden’s camp, “there are well-intentioned people, but they are afraid to do anything that could help Trump: if they openly support veganism, they could lose voters.”
As for Trump, Moby doesn’t think he “cares about anything other than himself, he’s a sociopath, a narcissist, and he hates animals because they can’t do anything for him.”
Vegan restaurant, Billie Eilish
In 1996, the musician released an album called “Animal Rights.” And in 2023 he directed “Punk Rock Vegan Movie”, a documentary that shows the links between the punk scene – where he comes from – and the animal cause.
“I grew up surrounded by chaotic humans, from a very young age I learned not to trust human beings,” he rewinds. “Animals are not irrational, if they are angry it is for a reason, unlike humans.”
“At 19 years old I told myself ‘you can’t love animals and eat hamburgers, that would be like loving children and eating them.’ In 1984 I became a vegetarian, in 1987 a vegan.” He even owned a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles, which closed during the Covid crisis and failed to reopen afterwards. He sold the store and it is the family of Billie Eilish, new pop star, who must relaunch it.
In one of his new titles, “Where is your pride?“, we find Benjamin Zephaniah, British actor, singer and poet, star of the series “Peaky Blinders” and died at the end of 2023 due to a brain tumor.
“It’s funny, I didn’t approach him because he was an artist, but first because he was a vegan activist. Then he became a friend and then I was like, ‘Hey, we could collaborate,'” Moby says. .
Source: BFM TV
