Political before he was a musician, Moddi has continued to express this streak of activism in his recording career and in 2014 he cancelled a show in Tel Aviv in protest at the Israeli occupation of ...

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Norwegian songwriter Pål Knutsen, better known as Moddi, is playing a special show today at the Southbank Centre - and you can live stream it below. Moddi's show is part of the Nordic Matters festival ...

Moddi's unique brand of songs are a breath of fresh Nordic air amongst the torrent of today's singer-songwriters A mixture of dark fairy tales, political songs, enchanting sounding sea shanties and a ...

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Erasing inconvenient truths isn’t new but technology is making it so much easier Norwegian musician Moddi has collated an album of songs from around the world that had been banned, censored or ...

Folk musician Moddi’s new album covers the songs The Man wanted to suppress. He explains why music still has the power to confront authority To some, a ban on Phil Collins’s In The Air Tonight would ...

To mark the release of Norwegian musician Moddi’s new album, Unsongs, Index on Censorship is proud to announce a special series of appearances by currently banned voices from around the world. Moddi ...

In July, online magazine Slate asked whether 2016 is really shaping up to be ”the worst year in history”, a phrase that was being thrown around with increasing abandon following that month’s terrorist ...

Moddi is a Norwegian singer-songwriter who had an excellent idea for a concept album. On learning that the Norwegian authorities had put pressure on an artist not to perform Eli Geva, a song about the ...

FOUR years ago, Moddi played a gig in Manchester that made him quit music. It was nothing personal Mancunians; but it was the show that brought it home to Moddi - known to his folks back home in ...