Moray Moireibh
Logo of Moray Logo
Location
Geography
Area	Ranked 8th
- Total	2,238 km2 (864 sq mi)
Admin HQ	High Street Elgin Moray IV30 1BX
ISO 3166-2	GB-MRY
ONS code	00QX
Demographics
Population	Ranked 26th
- Total (2010 est.)	87,700
- Density	39 / km²
Politics
The Moray Council http://www.moray.gov.uk/
Control
TBA (council NOC)
MPs	Angus Robertson for Moray
MSPs	Richard Lochhead for Moray Stewart Stevenson for Banffshire and Buchan Coast

Topographic map of Moray and Aberdeenshire

Moray (pronounced Murray, Scottish Gaelic Moireibh or Moireabh, Latin Moravia) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland.

History[link]

The Moray council area was established in 1975; see History of the subdivisions of Scotland and History of local government in Scotland.

Towns and villages[link]

• Aberlour
• Alves
• Archiestown
• Arradoul
• Auchenhalrig
• Bogmoor
• Broadley
• Buckie
• Burghead
• Clochan
• Craigellachie
• Cullen
• Cummingston
• Dallas
• Deskford
• Dipple
• Drybridge
• Dufftown
• Duffus
• Dyke
• Elgin
• Findhorn
• Findochty
• Fochabers
• Forres
• Fogwatt
• Garmouth
• Hopeman
• Ianstown
• Inchberry
• Keith
• Kingston
• Kinloss
• Lhanbryde
• Longmorn
• Lossiemouth
• Mill of Tynet
• Mosstodloch
• Nether Dallachy
• Newmill
• Ordiquish
• Portgordon
• Portknockie
• Rathven
• Rafford
• Rothes
• Rothiemay
• Spey Bay
• Tomintoul
• Unthank
• Upper Dallachy
• Urquhart

Politics[link]

Moray Council[link]

see also Moray Council election, 2012

The Moray council area was created in 1996, under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, with the boundaries of the former Moray district of the two-tier Grampian region.

Local government districts had their own directly elected councils. Therefore, they were said to be part of a two-tier system of local government. This was abolished by the 1994 legislation, in favour of unitary council areas. The districts, and the regions, had been formed in 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.

The Moray district had been formed by combining the local government county of Moray, except Grantown-on-Spey and Cromdale areas, with Aberlour, Buckie, Cullen, Dufftown, Findochty, Keith and Portknockie areas of the county of Banff. The Grantown-on-Spey and Cromdale areas had been combined with Kingussie and Badenoch areas of the county of Inverness to form the Badenoch and Strathspey district of the Highland region.

Current political composition:

Moray Council has been controlled by an Independent/Conservative coalition since May 2007.^[1] This coalition continues after the 2012 election, with Stewart Cree, Independent councillor for Keith, chosen as council convener.^[2]

Parliamentary constituencies[link]

In the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster), the council area is covered the Moray (Westminster) constituency.

In the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood), most of the council area is covered by the Moray (Holyrood) constituency, which is in the Highlands and Islands electoral region. The Keith area (most of the Keith and Cullen ward), however, is within the Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency, which is in the North East Scotland electoral region.

Moray economy[link]

Employment[link]

The working population of Moray in 2003 was nearly 40,000 of which around 34,000 were employees and 6,000 self-employed. Of this 34,000, 31% are employed in the public sector compared with 27% for Scotland and 25% for the UK (the RAF personnel are not included in these figures). Only 18% of jobs are managerial or professional compared to 25% for Scotland.

Economic performance[link]

The gross value added (GVA)^[3] in Moray was £1.26 billion, in 2003. This corresponds to an output of £14,500 per resident and was 6% below the average for Scotland and 12% below that of the UK.

The diagrams show the strong reliance on the food and drink industry i.e. the distilling, canned food and biscuit manufacturing industries. The public sector is also very prominent. Of the total GVA of £1.26 billion, food and drink is responsible for 19% while 3% is the Scottish figure and 2% for the UK. Moray is responsible for 9% of the entire food and drink GVA of Scotland. Significant areas where Moray has a larger than average share of national markets are in tourism, forest products, textiles and specialized metal working. In contrast, however, Moray is significantly under-represented in the business services area at 15% of GVA while it is 19% for Scotland and 25% for the UK.

Earnings[link]

Compared to Scottish or UK levels, average incomes in Moray are low. The average wage in 2003 was £286 per week, which was 12% below the Scottish average and 18% below the UK (these statistics exclude the armed forces). These figures reflect the large amount of part-time employment, with fewer qualified workers and less managerial and professional jobs. 16% of residents out-commute, which is relatively high. Of these, two-thirds work in Aberdeen or Aberdeenshire, mainly in the oil and gas industry. These out-commuters earn significantly more than local workers.

Business base[link]

In 2004, there were around 2,500 VAT registered businesses in Moray with 75% of businesses employing fewer than 5 people and about a half of firms with a turnover of less than £100,000. 60% of employees are employed in small firms compared to 48% for Scotland as a whole.

Moray's major companies export their products to other UK regions and abroad and many of the smaller companies have direct involvement with neighbouring economies in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Highland. Also, a large out-commuting workforce (estimated to be in excess of 5,000 people) derives its income from the neighbouring centres of Aberdeen and Inverness.

Note: 2003 and 2004 data at SCOTDAT is the most uptodate as of August 2006

Population[link]

An inhabitant of the Moray, especially the historic Mormaer of Moray, is called Moravian.^[4]

Unlike many other regions of Scotland, which are experiencing population decline, Moray's population is expected to grow modestly to around 91,000 by 2024.

Source: General Register Office for Scotland [1]

Language[link]

The first records on language use in the area indicate that in 1705, most of Moray except for the coast was described as "Wholly Irish & Highland Countreys" and "Ye Irish Parishes in which both languages are spoken."^[5] By 1822, Scottish Gaelic had weakened in the area, with only the far south of Moray reporting that, at best, 10% of the population were speaking Gaelic better than English.^[5] Records towards the end of the 19th century improved and show that between 1881 and 1921 the percentage of Gaelic speakers in Moray fluctuated as shown in the following table:

Since then, it has been consistently below 1%. It was largely replaced by Doric and latterly Scottish English.

See also[link]

• Moray council election, 2007

References[link]

• Joint report HIE Moray and Moray Council entitled "MORAY 2020: STRATEGY FOR THE DIVERSIFICATION OF THE ECONOMY OF MORAY FOLLOWING RESTRUCTURING OF THE RAF BASES AT KINLOSS AND LOSSIEMOUTH" available at both web sites.

External links[link]

• Moray Council
• Moray at the Open Directory Project
• Undiscovered Speyside Community Web Site, a portal for all things Speyside
• Moray and Speyside info

v t e Places in Moray Achnastank · Aberlour · Alves · Archiestown · Arradoul · Auchbreck · Auchinderran · Auchindoun · Auchnarrow · Auchenhalrig · Aultmore · Backlands · Ballindalloch · Bogmoor · Branderburgh · Broadley · Buckie · Burghead · Burniestrype · Cabrach · Chapeltown · Clochan · College of Roseisle · Craigellachie · Cullen · Cummingston · Dallas · Darnaway · Deskford · Dipple · Drummuir · Drybridge · Dufftown · Duffus · Dyke · Elgin · Farmtown · Findhorn · Findochty · Fochabers · Forres · Fogwatt · Garmouth · Glass · Hopeman · Ianstown · Inchberry · Keith · Kellas · Kingston · Kinloss · Knockando · Lhanbryde · Longmorn · Lossiemouth · Maggieknockater · Miltonduff · Mosstodloch · Nether Dallachy · Newmill · Ordiquish · Portessie · Portgordon · Portknockie · Rathven · Rafford · Rothes · Rothiemay · Spey Bay · Strathlene · Stotfield · Tomintoul · Unthank · Upper Dallachy · Urquhart

Coordinates: 57°25′N 3°15′W / 57.417°N 3.25°W / 57.417; -3.25

Jean Gabin (17 May 1904 – 15 November 1976) was a French actor.

Biography[link]

Born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, he grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise (now Val-d'Oise) département, about 22 mi (35 km) north of Paris. The son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly. Leaving school early, he worked as a laborer until the age of 19 when he entered show business with a bit part in a Folies Bergères production. He continued performing in a variety of minor roles before going into the military.

After completing his military service, Gabin returned to the entertainment business, working under the stage name of Jean Gabin at whatever was offered in the Parisian music halls and operettas, imitating the singing style of Maurice Chevalier, which was the rage at the time. He was part of a troupe that toured South America, and upon returning to France found work at the Moulin Rouge. His performances started getting noticed, and better stage roles came along that led to parts in two silent films in 1928.

Two years later, he easily made the transition to talkies in a 1930 Pathé Frères production titled Chacun sa Chance. Playing secondary roles, Gabin made more than a dozen films over the next four years, including films directed by Maurice and Jacques Tourneur. However, he only gained real recognition for his performance in Maria Chapdelaine, a 1934 production directed by Julien Duvivier. Cast as a romantic hero in a 1936 war drama titled La Bandera, this second Duvivier-directed film established Gabin as a major star. The following year, he teamed up with Duvivier again, this time in the highly successful Pépé le Moko that became one of the top grossing films of 1937 worldwide; its popularity brought Gabin international recognition. That same year, he starred in the Jean Renoir masterpiece La Grande Illusion, an anti-war film that was a huge box office success and given universal critical acclaim, even running at a New York City theatre for an unprecedented six months. This was followed by another one of Renoir's great successes: La Bête Humaine (The Human Beast), a film noir tragedy based on the novel by Émile Zola and starring Gabin and Simone Simon, as well as Le Quai Des Brumes (Port of Shadows), one of director Marcel Carné's most acclaimed films.

Flooded with offers from Hollywood, for a time Gabin turned them all down until the outbreak of World War II. Following the German occupation of France, he joined Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier in the United States. Divorced from his second wife in 1939, during his time in Hollywood, Gabin began a torrid romance with actress Marlene Dietrich. However, his films in America proved less than successful.

A difficult personality, he did serious damage to his Hollywood career while working for RKO Pictures. Scheduled to star in an RKO film, at the last minute he demanded Dietrich be given the co-starring role. The studio refused. After Gabin remained steadfast in his demand, he was fired, and the film project was shelved.

Undaunted, Jean Gabin joined General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces and earned the Médaille militaire and a Croix de guerre for his wartime valor fighting with the Allies in North Africa. Following D-Day, Gabin was part of the military contingent that entered a liberated Paris.

In 1946, Gabin was hired by Marcel Carné to star in the film, Les Portes de la Nuit, but his conduct got him fired again. He then found a French producer and director willing to cast him and Marlene Dietrich together, but their film Martin Roumagnac was not a success and their personal relationship soon ended. Following another box office failure in 1947, Gabin returned to the stage, but there too, the production was another financial disaster. Nevertheless, he was cast in the lead role of the 1949 René Clément film Au-Delà Des Grilles that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Despite this recognition, the film did not do well at the French box office, and the next five years brought little more than repeated box office failures.

Gabin and Jacques Prévert in 1961.

Gabin's career seemed headed for oblivion. However, he made a comeback in the 1954 film, Touchez pas au grisbi (Don't Touch the Loot). Directed by Jacques Becker, his performance earned him critical acclaim, and the film was a very profitable international success. Later, he worked once again with Jean Renoir in French Cancan, with María Félix and Françoise Arnoul. Over the next twenty years, Gabin made close to 50 more films, most of them very successful commercially and critically, including many for Gafer Films, his production partnership with fellow actor Fernandel.

His co-stars included leading figures of post-war cinema such as Brigitte Bardot (En cas de malheur), Alain Delon (Le Clan des Siciliens, Mélodie en sous-sol and Deux hommes dans la ville), Jean-Paul Belmondo (Un singe en hiver) and Louis de Funès (Le Tatoué).

Gabin died of leukaemia at the American Hospital of Paris, in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. His body was cremated and with full military honours, his ashes were dispersed into the sea from a military ship.

Considered one of the great stars of French cinema, he was made a member of the Légion d'honneur. The Musée Jean Gabin in his native town, Mériel, contains his story and features, his war and film memorabilia.

Selected filmography[link]

• 1930: Ohé! les valises
• 1930: On demande un dompteur or Les lions
• 1930: Méphisto (by Henri Debain and Georges Vinter)
• 1930: Chacun sa chance
• 1933: Du haut en bas
• 1934: Maria Chapdelaine
• 1934: Zouzou
• 1935: Golgotha (by Julien Duvivier)
• 1935: La Bandera
• 1936: The Lower Depths (Les Bas-fonds)
• 1936: La belle équipe
• 1937: Pépé le Moko
• 1937: The Grand Illusion (La Grande illusion)
• 1937: Le Messager
• 1937: Gueule d'amour
• 1938: Le Récif de corail
• 1938: Port of Shadows (Le quai des brumes)
• 1938: The Human Beast (La Bête humaine) (by Jean Renoir)
• 1939: Le Jour se lève (Daybreak) (by Marcel Carné)
• 1941: Remorques
• 1942: Moontide
• 1946: Martin Roumagnac (The Room Upstairs) (by Georges Lacombe)
• 1949: The Walls of Malapaga (Italian: Le mura di Malapaga, French: Au-delà des grilles) (by René Clément)
• 1951: His Last Twelve Hours
• 1952: La Vérité sur Bébé Donge
• 1952: Le Plaisir (by Max Ophüls)
• 1952: La Minute de vérité
• 1954: Touchez pas au grisbi (Don't Touch the Loot) (by Jacques Becker)
• 1954: Razzia sur la chnouf (Razzia in Paris) (by Henri Decoin)
• 1955: Napoléon (bu Sacha Guitry)
• 1955: French Cancan (by Jean Renoir)
• 1956: Des gens sans importance
• 1956: Voici le temps des assassins (by Julien Duvivier)
• 1956: La Traversée de Paris
• 1958: Maigret Sets a Trap
• 1958: Les Misérables
• 1959: Archimède le clochard (The Magnificent Tramp) (by Gilles Grangier) - won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival^[1]
• 1960: Le Président (by Henri Verneuil)
• 1960: Le baron de l'écluse (Le baron Jérôme, Napoléon Antoine) (by Jean Delannoy)
• 1961: Le cave se rebiffe (The Counterfeiters of Paris) (by Gilles Grangier)
• 1962: Un singe en hiver (by Henri Verneuil) with Jean-Paul Belmondo
• 1962: Le Gentleman d'Epsom (by Gilles Grangier)
• 1963: Mélodie en sous-sol (by Henri Verneuil)
• 1963: Maigret voit rouge (by Gilles Grangier)
• 1964: Monsieur (by Jean-Paul Le Chanois)
• 1964: L'Âge ingrat (by Gilles Grangier)
• 1965: Le Tonnerre de Dieu (by Denys de La Patellière)
• 1965: Du rififi à Paname (by Denys de La Patellière)
• 1966: Le Jardinier d'Argenteuil (by Jean-Paul Le Chanois)
• 1967: Le Soleil des voyous (by Jean Delannoy) with Robert Stack
• 1968: Le Pacha (by Georges Lautner)
• 1968: Le tatoué (by Denys de La Patellière)
• 1969: Sous le signe du taureau (by Gilles Grangier)
• 1969: Le Clan des Siciliens (by Henri Verneuil) with Alain Delon
• 1970: La Horse (by Pierre Granier-Deferre) - Auguste Maroilleur
• 1971: Le Chat - Julien Bouin - won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival^[2]
• 1971: Le Drapeau noir flotte sur la marmite - Victor Ploubaz
• 1972: Le Tueur - Commissaire Le Guen
• 1973: L'Affaire Dominici - Gaston Dominici
• 1973: Deux hommes dans la ville - Germain Cazeneuve
• 1974: Verdict - Leguen
• 1976: Échos de plateau
• 1976: L'Année sainte - Max Lambert

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jean Gabin

• Jean Gabin at the Internet Movie Database
• Jean Gabin at AllRovi
• Jean Gabin at Yahoo! Movies
• The Jean Gabin Museum of Mériel
• website in italian language

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Jim Moray
Jim Moray
Background information
Born	1981 (age 30–31) Macclesfield, United Kingdom
Genres	Folk Folk rock experimental English folk music
Instruments	Voice, Piano, Guitars, drums, Bass, Melodeon and Programming

Jim Moray is an English folk singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

Recording artist[link]

While studying classical composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Moray released the home-recorded I Am Jim Moray EP. During 2002 he appeared at the Glastonbury festival and the Cambridge Folk Festival gaining notice in the music press. A nomination for the "Horizon Award" at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2003 followed before he began work on his first full length album, Sweet England. The album was recorded in his bedroom while completing his final year of study. During this time Moray toured with Oysterband.

Sweet England was released in June 2003 on his own Niblick Is A Giraffe record label. Over the next year Moray toured internationally visiting Canada, Australia, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. He also completed two headline tours of the UK and supported Richard Thompson and Will Young.

At the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2004 he was presented with the Album of the Year Award for Sweet England and the Horizon Award for best newcomer. He was also nominated twice in the Best Traditional Song category for Early One Morning and Lord Bateman.

Moray recorded and released the single Sprig of Thyme in May 2004, and in the autumn appeared on the Oysterband's Big Session Volume 1 album. This gained yet more Folk Award nominations in 2005, including one for Cuckoo's Nest, which was sung, produced and mixed by Moray.

After a long gestation period, Moray's eponymous second album was released on 1 May 2006. Moving away from the electronic sound of Sweet England it features a more orchestral sound and denser song structures.

On 6 July 2007, The Independent featured Sweet England in its "Cult Classic" series, affirming its impact and influence on the modern folk scene.

Jim Moray's third album, Low Culture, was released on 14 July 2008. On this album Jim makes use of African kora, the melodeon and mandolin and mbira thumb-piano. Low Culture won the fRoots Critics Poll Album of the Year 2008 and was also the MOJO Folk Album of the Year 2008. It was also nominated for the Album of the Year Award in the BBC Folk Awards 2009.

On 1 Feb 2010 it was announced that Jim Moray's fourth album In Modern History would be given away as a covermount CD with the June edition of Songlines magazine, with a street date of 30 April 2010. It was also announced that the album would be available in a deluxe box set and standard editions on 7 June 2010.

Moray's fifth studio album Skulk was released on Bandcamp with no build-up or warning in January 2012. It was then announced that it will have a full release in April 2012.

Producer[link]

Moray has often stated that he considers his main role to be that of a producer^{[citation needed]}. Aside from all of his own albums he has gradually begun to produce other artists, mainly from his own studio in Bristol profiled in a Sound On Sound feature in 2006.^[1]

Moray produced and mixed the track "The Cuckoo's Nest" for the Oysterband Big Session in 2004. This was a live album, recorded over two nights, featuring a similar line-up to the tour he took part in in 2003. The track was nominated in the BBC Folk Awards that year.

During 2005 Moray produced and performed on James Raynard's debut album Strange Histories, released in September 2005 on One Little Indian records.

In 2008 he wrote and produced the song The Wishfulness Waltz for his sister Jackie Oates' second album The Violet Hour,^[2] as well as playing all the instruments on the track. He subsequently produced and mixed her third album Hyperboreans which was released in September 2009 and nominated for three BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (including best album), and MOJO magazine's top folk albums of 2009.

Moray produced and mixed the debut album Roodumdah"by Kent-based folk-rock band Wheeler Street in autumn 2008. In 2010 he commenced work on the forthcoming album by Belshazzar's Feast.

Live performer[link]

Moray's live shows have frequently featured video projections and lighting effects, something relatively uncommon in British folk music.

During 2001-2003 Moray played as a solo performer, becoming well known for using a laptop and loop pedals live. After the release of Sweet England in 2003, he began playing with a variety of accompanying musicians, notably drummer Laurence Hunt. This flexible line-up toured extensively as an electric band, with Moray playing electric guitar and supplemented by samples and sequences from laptops onstage.

Following the Jim Moray album, during 2007-2008 Moray's line-up solidified around a core of melodeon player Nick Cooke and violinist James Delarre, frequently performing as an acoustic trio before eventually adding drummer William Bowerman in 2008. Bowerman left the band in summer 2009 to join electro-pop act La Roux and was replaced by Dave Burbidge. After puncturing both lungs, Cooke was replaced by Saul Rose for some festival appearances in summer 2009, with Rose becoming his permanent replacement in September.

Moray also performed as Orpheus in Anais Mitchell's folk opera, Hadestown in January 2011 at the Union Chapel in London.

Discography[link]

• I Am Jim Moray EP (2001)
• Sweet England (2003)
• Sprig Of Thyme (single) (2004)
• Jim Moray (2006)
• Barbara Allen ( vinyl single) (2006)
• Low Culture (2008)
• In Modern History (2010)
• Big Love (single) (2011)
• Skulk (2012)

as producer or guest musician:-

• Glance - Rose Kemp (piano and programming) (2003) - Rose Kemp later provided additional vocals for the album Jim Moray
• Big Session Vol. 1 - Oysterband (vocal/guitar/piano and production/mixing) (2004)
• Strange Histories - James Raynard (production/mixing and vocal/bouzouki/concertina/piano) (2005)
• The Violet Hour - Jackie Oates (production/song-writing and guitar/tenor guitar/double bass/drums/piano on the track "The Wishfulness Waltz") (2008)
• Roodumdah - Wheeler Street (production/melodeon/keyboards) (2009)
• Hyperboreans - Jackie Oates (production/bass/guitars/keyboards) (2009)
• The Mother of All Morris - Ashley Hutchings (vocal/guitar on track 'Black Joke') (2009)
• Cecil Sharp Project - contributed tracks 'Dear Kimber' and 'Earl Brand' (2011)
• Revenge of the Folksingers - (Concerto Caledonia) (vocal on tracks 'My Lord Of Marche Pavem', 'The Foggy Dew', 'Delighted/The Lincolnshire Poacher') (2011)

References[link]

1. ^ http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug06/articles/jimmoray.htm
2. ^ Jackie's Violet Hour. BBC Devon website. Created 31 January 2008, last updated 10 April 2008. Accessed 27 September 2008.

External links[link]

• www.jimmoray.co.uk
• MySpace profile