Aidan Moffat

Aidan Moffat

Aidan Moffat is a Scottish vocalist and musician from Falkirk. He is best known as a member of Arab Strap, which he forms with Malcolm Middleton from 1995. He is also associated with Bay, The Sick Anchors, The Reindeer Section and Aloha Hawaii, and he records in folk and electronica contexts.

Solo work and aliases

Moffat records under several names, including Lucky Pierre, shortened to L. Pierre from 2004, as well as Nyx Nótt, Aidan Moffat & The Best-Ofs, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, and Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert. Under the Lucky Pierre name, he releases Hypnogogia as a solo album in 2002 after being challenged by Malcolm Middleton to make one. He later changes the project name to L. Pierre and releases Touchpool in 2005, followed by Dip in 2007. In 2013 he issues The Island Come True and The Eternalist under the same name.

Other bands and collaborations

Before Arab Strap, Moffat records with The Angry Buddhists from 1991 to 1996. Aidan Moffat & the Best-Ofs is a four-piece band fronted by him, and its first album, How to Get to Heaven From Scotland, appears in 2009. In 2011 he and pianist, bassist and former Arab Strap collaborator Bill Wells release Everything's Getting Older, which wins the first Scottish Album of the Year Award from the Scottish Music Industry Association in 2012. In 2018 he releases Here Lies the Body with RM Hubbert.

Background

Moffat is born in Falkirk in 1973. His first gig takes place when he is 16.