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Playing at the Idler Festival 11th July 2025

This is The Mostar Diving Club. Formed in 2008 they have released six albums to date. Don Your Suit of Lights (2008), Triumph of Hope (2013), Horizontal Hotel (2015) Here Comes Joy (2018) Glass Monkeys (2022) and Beautiful Forever (2025). The outfit is run and managed by Damian Katkhuda who has been signed to BMG publishing since 2001. Many of their songs have been used in film, television and adverts including campaigns for  Honda, Visa, Persil and Asda. 

 The band have met with great critical acclaim. The Sunday times referring to their music as “Pure Gold.”

Discography

Some of our releases to date …….. all available from the shop!

https://themostardivingclub.bandcamp.com

Beautiful Forever (2025)

Glass Monkeys (2022)

Acoustic Tapes (2021)

Here Comes Joy (2018)

Don Your Suit of Lights (2008)

Christmas Album

Triumph of Hope (2013)

Triumph of Hope (out-takes)

Covers ep

Give a Little Love (single)

Horizontal Hotel (2015)

Horizontal Hotel (out takes)

Blog

 
The Mostar Diving Club is the work of writer, composer and lead singer Damian Katkhuda.  
Signed to BMG since 2001 and producing to date ten studio albums under different guises he has remained resolutely under the radar, choosing to go about his craft in his own unique way and style. The Mostar Diving Club is his latest project with six albums released under its banner; Don Your Suit of Lights (2008), Triumph of Hope (2013), Horizontal Hotel (2015)  Here Comes Joy (2018), Glass Monkeys (2022) and Beautiful Forever (2025); you’ve probably never heard of him though you will of heard his songs which have been used widely in film and television to create unique and beautiful atmospheres on screen. The songs have also been championed by Steve Lamacq and Laurene Laverne at BBC6music. The music ranges from large scale productions to just a simple guitar and voice recorded in the garden. Recorder orchestras, violins with trumpet attachments, bowed saws, accordions, harmoniums, glockenspiels, banjos, auto harps and ukuleles are just a few of the instruments to be heard on these highly eclectic albums. They have met with great critical acclaim both here and abroad; “Don’t equate the lightness of touch Damian Katkhuda brings to his music with a lack of graft: the singer has been releasing magical folk-pop albums for years, never quite breaking through but affirming the notion that if you look beyond the charts you can strike gold. Infused with a born-melodist gift and straight-to-the-emotional-mains lyric writing, this music is plaintive and heart breakingly lovely, Pure gold.” (Sunday Times). The name, The Mostar Diving Club, is taken from a town in Bosnia where Katkhuda’s fathers’ family hail from; as a right of passage into adulthood, young men dive from an old bridge into a shallow river below, a distance of some thirty meters.
 

Contact

Lucky Sixteen Ltd

damiankatkhuda@hotmail.co.uk