• Music
  • 18 Nov 13
Hot Press meets Moby
Hot Press meets Moby
Eamon Sweeney
Eamon Sweeney

He used to chug vodka-beer cocktails with decommissioned Serbian soldiers but, five years booze-free, electro boffin Moby is finally living up to his reputation as monastic clean-liver. He talks about his fantastic new record, makes some borderline racist comments about Irish people and their tolerance for alcohol (cheers Moby) and discusses his controversial licensing of songs.

Moby authored the ultimate sleeper hit with his 1999 album Play, which infamously became the ubiquitous advertising sound bed of the early noughties.

Innocents is out now

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