Mosque were an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band that formed in 1987. Whilst sticking to no one distinct style, their music was based around new prog

New prog

New prog is a term used to describe a number of recent alternative rock/experimental bands who incorporate elements from progressive rock.Most notable bands described as new prog include:...

 and alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

. Mosque consisted of Shaun Keaveny

Shaun Keaveny

Shaun William Keaveny is a British broadcaster, who presents the breakfast show on digital radio station BBC 6 Music.- Career :He played guitar for John Ariss in the student band Mosque between 1987 and 1993....

 (vocals/guitar), Paul Banks (vocals/bass), John Ariss (vocals) and Leon Parr (percussion).

Keaveny has since gone on to be breakfast radio presenter for BBC 6 Music

BBC 6 Music

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. Leon Parr is still a session

Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

 percussionist, who has performed with Mr. So & So

Mr. So & So

Mr. So & So are an English rock band that formed in 1989. Whilst sticking to no one distinct style their music is based around new prog and alternative rock. Mr...

 and members of The Verve

The Verve

The Verve were an English rock band formed in 1989 in Wigan by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury. Guitarist and keyboardist Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space...

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Mosque reformed for one night only for "An Audience With Shaun Keaveny" at Leigh Library on Saturday 12 February 2011.

EP

• Lost Things (1989)

1. "MASH" (Banks/Ariss)
2. "Yellow Pages" (Keaveny/Ariss)
3. "Lost Things" (Keaveny/Ariss)
4. "Red Bricks are Blue" (Banks/Ariss)

Studio albums

• More Better (1992)

1. "More Better" (Ariss/Keaveny)
2. "Even Though It's Only You You Hear" (Ariss/Keaveny)
3. "Black Oranges" (Ariss/Keaveny)
4. "Short Curtains" (Ariss/Keaveny)
5. "Compass" (Banks/Keaveny/Ariss)
6. "Lost Things" (Keaveny/Ariss)
7. "Down Wind" (Banks/Keaveny/Ariss)