Moby reveals details of album + Dublin date

Moby has exclusively told hotpress.com that he's planning to play an intimate Dublin date in May or June.

"I want to do a club or a theatre first and then come back later for a festival or arena show," he tells us down the transatlantic blower from New York. "It's more fun when it's a new record if you can see people's faces."

The record in question is Hotel, his new 100% sample-free collection, which includes a tribute to David Bowie ('Spiders') and an achingly beautiful New Order cover ('Temptation').

The latter is one of a clutch of tracks that features Laura Dawn, a native of Pleasantville, Iowa who the boy Hall rates as "one of the best singers I've ever heard."

"She came to New York wanting to be a punk rock star," he continues, "and ended up working for a radical left-wing group called MoveOn PAC who worked very hard last year to remove George Bush from the White House. That they failed is still something that depresses me deeply!"

As for the theme of the album, Moby explains: "The thing that fascinates me about hotels is, when you check into a room, it invariably feels like you're the first person to walk into it. And yet in the back of your mind you know that six hours before someone was having sex on that bed, someone was breaking up with their girlfriend. The most intimate things happen in hotels, yet they feel so anonymous."