Why the excuse? What for? For making uncompromising rock? For creating great melodies? For being one of Austria's best Live-Bands at present? For steadily showing constancy for almost 7 years now? Surely not. Forcefully working on the claim to be Austria’s first Rockband meeting international standards needs no excuse. Far from it! Finally someone steps up to meet the challenge! Maybe that could explain the idiosyncratic choice in christening the band "Excuse Me Moses". And aren't commandements there to be broken? Especially in a country where rules and regulations count for a lot? The lads don't give a good goddam – or in other words: Excuse Me Moses.
Messages from the band to their ever-growing fanbase via their website www.excusememoses.com clearly indicate the enthusiasm about the record deal with Universal Music Austria and give a good display of the bands ultimate dedication to their work. But it has been about time to showcase the band's qualities outside of the narrow channels they used to work in. One of the main activities to achieve the goal of a wider audience has always been to go out and play live. Because record deal or not – Excuse Me Moses is a full-blown live-band. And with every gig they play, their following grows, and it did especially when they were opening for Bon Jovi in Tyrol/Austria last year.
Excuse Me Moses are organised as a democratic entity, every member is equally important, decisions are made together. The hardest decisions are brought about in their rehearsal room, a modified cellar, siginificant for the down-to-earth-style of Excuse Me Moses. Aggravations? Yes, from time to time. But nothing that can’t be pacified with some pints of lager. "Energy shall flow, that's what's important†states singer Michael Paukner aka "Paukee". Excuse Me Moses tend to give Nicknames: bass player Gerald Weichselbaum has been tenderly renamed "Basstard", axe-man Dietmar Schrödl has been dubbed "Diz". And new drummer Martin Scheer got the simple "Der Scheer"-moniker. Maybe they could work on this one a little more.
