Connan Mockasin ( Connan Tant Hosford) performing on the NTS stage during the OnBlackheath Music Festival 2016
Connan Tant Hosford, better known by the stage name Connan Mockasin, is a psychedelic pop musician from Te Awanga, New Zealand. After having spent over 10 years living between Wellington, London, East Sussex and Manchester, Hosford now resides in Los Angeles, California. Born and raised in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, Hosford started his first band "The Four Skins" (named by his father, Ade "because there are four skins on the drums")[1] while attending Havelock North intermediate school in 1995. Soon after this, due to embarrassment, Connan called an end to The Four Skins, and wouldn't start another band until several years later. In 2003, after moving to Wellington, Hosford briefly played in a band called "Grampa Moff" (later to become a track title on "Please Turn Me Into The Snat"),[2] consisting of Blake Pryor (bass) and Christopher Chalmers (drums), before forming his principle New Zealand group "Connan And The Mockasins" (named after Connan's interest in making his own shoes).[3] Playing alongside Connan were Ross Walker (upright acoustic bass) and Seamus Ebbs (drums). It was with this band that Connan would relocate to London in May 2006 after releasing their second EP "Uuu It's Teasy". After a series of concerts in London, the band visited New Zealand again for a national 2006/2007 Summer tour. In 2007, the band moved from London to a village in East Sussex in the south east of England. Ross Walker was replaced by James Milne, of Lawrence Arabia and Reduction Agents fame, on bass guitar. The band then played the CMJ festival in New York. Towards the end of 2007 Ebbs left the band to pursue his career, shortly before Hosford returned to New Zealand for a national tour in 2008 – adopting his new moniker "Connan Mockasin. Mockasin and band toured with Charlotte Gainsbourg as her live band after Mockasin composed the song 'Out Of Touch' for her 2011 album Stage Whisper.
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Location: Blackheath, Lewisham, London, UK
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
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