It was the French goat’s cheese that did it. I’d arrived at the Victorian-terraced Manchester home of Connan Mockasin, to be welcomed by a glass of fine red wine, a sumptuous cheese platter and a ...
I haven't listened to music for a long time," declares New Zealander Connan Hosford, AKA Connan Mockasin, as if it's the most normal thing in the world for a musician to say. How long is a long time?
“Do you want some wine?" Connan Mockasin points to the bottle of red in the middle of the table, before nipping out of the dark little room at Rough Trade East and returning with a couple of plastic ...
New Zealand’s Connan Mockasin once told me in an interview he asked Wellington University for a degree certificate for jazz because there were so many rumours floating around that he had a jazz degree ...
Connan Mockasin is back on tour. The Te Awonga, New Zealand native, currently living in Tokyo with his girlfriend and new born baby, is preparing for a Rough Trade instore when Gigwise meets him. And ...
Connan Mockasin has had quite a year so far. In March, he released the stunning Forever Dolphin Love on Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound label, he’s just about to embark on a tour supporting Warpaint and ...
Clash Music has called him "a true cosmonaut of inner space." Connan Mockasin is a psychedelic pop musician from New Zealand, who has won fans around the world for his unique, introverted brand of ...
The New Zealand musician, signed to Erol Alkan's Phantasy Sound, talks disillusionment and flirting. Have you lost count of the number of times you’ve been called an oddball? “I don’t understand it, I ...
I haven't listened to music for a long time," declares New Zealander Connan Hosford, AKA Connan Mockasin, as if it's the most normal thing in the world for a musician to say. How long is a long time?
Ahead of his UK tour, which starts tomorrow, Connan Mockasin meets John Freeman to talk building rollercoasters and the making of his Tokyo-influenced second album, Caramel Erol Alkan has had a busy ...