Artist description World Music? Not if you mean discussing various musical structures with visiting musical dignitaries over a cup of tea. Raving Noah's music gets lost in some ethnic back alley, drinks with the locals and wakes up hungover on the wrong train home.

Music Style Celtic Gypsy Roots Rock

Musical Influences Roots rock, Pogues, Nick Cave, Klezmer, Gypsy music, Eastern European folk music

Similar Artists Tom Waits, The Pogues, Nick Cave, The Clash, Mekons, Steve Earle, Early Springsteen

Artist History After disbanding the regionally popular NJ Celtic rockgroup, The Barleycorns, Andrew Ogilvie (singer and songwriter) formed Raving Noah with a group of NYC musicians as a means to expand the Celtic Rock genre with the more brooding and exotic music of the eastern european gyspies.

Group Members Bill Gerstel (ex-Rogues March, Mad Scene) Claudia Chopek (ex-Health @ Happiness Show), Steve Antonakos (ex-Blue Chieftains, ex-5 Chinese Brothers), and Matt Lindsey (ex-Rogues March)

Instruments Acoustic guitar, harmonica, bass, drums, violin, accordion, electric guitar, bouzouki

Albums Good Morning MIdnight

Press Reviews NY POST (NYC/NATIONAL) I If the Clancy brothers grew up on the boardwalk of Asbury Park and had to cut heads with South Side Johnny, Little Steven and Big Bad Bruce, they'd be a lot like the Celtic-roots-rock band Raving Noah.... A musically refreshing disc that stretches beyond either rock or traditional Celtic music. THE STAR LEDGER (NORTHERN NJ) I A typical Raving Noah track combines slinky guitar, bouzouki or organ riffs with Ogilvie’s rough but soulful Elvis Costello-like vocals. ... Also like Costello, Ogilvie has a knack for infusing Raving Noah’s songs with a timeless quality. DIRTY LINEN (NATIONAL) I Ogilvie's songs have a rough, melodic edge, some of which show an Irish influence (think the Mekons or The Pogues)...Ogilvie’s drive and quirky sense of melody separate this from the standard Irish rock release. TIME OUT (NYC) A richly eclectic mongrel group, Raving Noah mixes Celtic, Gypsy and Heartland rock, punctuated by violin and accordion....includes folks who’ve done time with Loser’s Lounge, the Mad Scene, Badawi and Lloyd Cole—no surprise, then, to hear they combine a wealth of international styles with rock. SOUNDVIEWS (NYC) ...hard bitten roots-rockers that wear the flags of many nations. Nimbly they move from Greek rembetika, then swerve into giddy klezmer and gypsy dance rhythms, not stopping until they reach the sinuous, hashish-inflected textures of the Middle East. ... Fans of multi-culti brace yourselves, because you’re a captive on the Orient Express sharing a berth with Steven King and Charles Bukowski. Good Morning Midnight chosen 2nd best release of 2000 Airplay on the following stations: KUNM 89.9 Albuquerque NM WBAI 99.5 New York NY WEOS 89.7 Geneva NY WGDR 91.1 Plainfield VT WGSU 89.3 Genneseo NY WWLFR 91.7 Pomona NJ WMBR 88.1 Cambridge MA WMEB 91.9 Orono ME WMUH 91.7 Allentown PA WOMR 92.1 Provincetown MA WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport CT *WSAM 417 Stations National WTCC 90.7 Springfield MA WUSB 90.1 Stony Brook NY WWUH 91.3 West Hartford CT * Simulcast to 417 Stations

Location New York, New York - USA

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