Biography
A few years before Moonpilot existence, Sean Christopher (vocals, guitars) studied drums on the royal conservatory in the Netherlands. It was that period that he got inspired to actually write music, not only playing it. Sean, who toured with Daniel Johnston as a drummer decided not to continue his study as a drummer and put the main focus on composing music. He asked a childhood friend, Dennis de Ronde(keyboards), to accompany him on playing songs he’d written. It was soon after their jams when they decided to bring in more musicians to form a band.
Short after they‘d found Jasper Zuidervaart (drums) and Korne ter Steege (Bass) and they began modeling their sound after their inspirers.
Moonpilot settled on a promising brand of melodic indie pop music and released their first self-titled EP in 2008. It got picked up immediately on local radio and the months after chances were given to play on several venues in the region of Zuid Holland and their hometown The Hague.
At the beginning of 2009 Moonpilot opted to record and produce their first full length album. The following months were all focused on their debut album. Their self-produced debut album entitled “Control” arrived in January 2010.
In February 2010 they completely sold out their first album release show in their hometown venue Paard van Troje.
Their record was positively reviewed by well known Dutch music magazines as OOR, LiveXS and MusicFromNL (even by German music magazines). Curiosity from all over the Netherlands soon became more of a reality.
In July 2010 they were given the “Serious Talent” status by national radio station 3FM after which they got picked up on national radio with their song called “Caroline”.
During the summer they got the chance to play one of the biggest festivals of the Netherlands “Zwarte Cross festival” were they proved to be an exciting and serious talent live on stage.
In September 2010 Moonpilot got selected for the “Popronde 2010 festival” (2 month and 23 different city’s festival). They ‘de managed to get booked 20 out of 23 shows which made them the most booked Popronde band ever.
October 2010 their debutalbum was nominated for best album of The Hague of the year 2010 . On 23th of october they were actually rewarded the 1th price category : Best Album 2010 of The Hague.
With sixty shows played and all of their goals they achieved in 2010 Moonpilot is ready to go beyond.
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