Kevin Mooney Biography – Kevin Mooney Wiki
Kevin Mooney born Kevin Paul Mooney is an English-Irish rock bassist and guitarist who has worked with Adam Ant, Sinéad O’Connor, and others. He is the ex-husband of the late Jordan Mooney born Pamela Rooke was an English model and actress known for her work with Vivienne Westwood and the SEX boutique in the Kings Road area of London in the mid-1970s, and for attending many of the early Sex Pistols performances. She died on April 3, 2022, from cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer)at 66.
Kevin started his musical career in 1977 with Anglo-Irish punk band The European Cowards, in collaboration with John Keogh and rebel rouser John Herlihy. He was then enlisted as the bass player for Adam and the Ants, between 1980 and 1981, appearing on the album Kings of the Wild Frontier. After leaving the band because of personal conflict and creative differences, he formed the band Wide Boy Awake with best friend John Keogh, Harley Price, and Horace Carter Allan. Wide Boy Awake released two EPs in the UK, including songs “Chicken Outlaw”, “Billy Hyena”, “Bona Venture” and “Slang Teacher”, some of which appear on 1980s various-artists compilations. The band was managed by Mooney’s then-wife Pamela Rooke. “Billy Hyena” was accompanied by a music video directed by Derek Jarman. Wide Boy Awake disbanded soon after without releasing a full album. During this period, he guested on Sinéad O’Connor’s album The Lion and the Cobra, writing and playing guitar on one track “Just Call Me Joe”, featuring Leslie Winer on backup vocals.
Next, he formed the band Max (not to be confused with the Japanese vocal group MAX) with Leslie Winer, a former associate of William S. Burroughs, plus John Keogh, Kumar Desai, and John Wright. The band recorded an unreleased album, featuring guitar work by Mooney’s former Adam and the Ants bandmate, Marco Pirroni. He formed a new version of Max, which released a drug-induced soft rock middle-of-the-road album called Silence Running, produced by Trevor Horn, but the band dissolved in the wake of money problems and drug-related deaths. He relocated to Florida and then to Boston with Winer but returned to the UK briefly in 2001. He now resides in Berlin.
Mooney worked with Leslie Winer as part of the electronic group “C” on the albums Witch and Spider. In the early 2000s, he formed another band, the Lavender Pill Mob, led by Gary Asquith, a former member of Rema Rema, Mass, and Renegade Soundwave, with Harley Price and Lee Jason Simeone. This group recorded two albums (The Lavender Pill Mob and Mike’s Bikes) released independently; the second album featured guest vocals by Adam Ant on one song, “Black Pirates” (a reworking of “Chicken Outlaw”).
Kevin Mooney Age
He was born on May 5, 1962, in Greenwich, United Kingdom.
Kevin Mooney Wife
He was previously married to his ex-wife, the late Jordan Mooney but they later divorced.
