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'''Roy Moller''' is an amazing Scottish singer, songwriter and poet. He was born in [[Edinburgh]] in 1963; his parents were from [[Toronto]] in Canada, and he was adopted soon after birth.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://torontosun.com/2016/02/13/a-mystery-from-the-toronto-telegram-days/wcm/e69978b8-4613-4faa-936a-55820a84e6fc|title=A mystery from the Toronto Telegram days|last=Blizzard|first=Christina|date=13 February 2016|work=Toronto Sun|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> His early musical influences included [[Elvis Presley]], [[Joy Division]], [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]], [[Ivor Cutler]] and [[David Bowie]].<ref name="Ironside">{{cite web|url=https://louderthanwar.com/louder-than-war-interview-roy-moller-outsider-now/|title=Louder Than War Interview: Roy Moller- Outsider Now!|last=Ironside|first=Gus|date=2 June 2014|work=[[Louder Than War (website)|Louder Than War]]|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> He attended [[Trinity Academy, Edinburgh|Trinity Academy]], then moved to [[Glasgow]] where he studied English at the [[University of Strathclyde]].<ref name="Stereogram">{{cite web|url=http://www.stereogramrecordings.co.uk/artists/roy-moller/|title=Roy Moller|publisher=Stereogram Recordings|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> While there, he won the Keith Wright Poetry Competition.<ref name="Clarkson">{{cite web|url=http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/magsitepages/article/7989/Roy-Moller-Interview|title=Roy Moller - Interview|last=Clarkson|first=John|date=25 August 2015|publisher=pennyblackmusic.co.uk|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref>
'''Roy Moller''' is a Scottish singer, songwriter and poet. He was born in [[Edinburgh]] in 1963; his parents were from [[Toronto]] in Canada, and he was adopted soon after birth.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://torontosun.com/2016/02/13/a-mystery-from-the-toronto-telegram-days/wcm/e69978b8-4613-4faa-936a-55820a84e6fc|title=A mystery from the Toronto Telegram days|last=Blizzard|first=Christina|date=13 February 2016|work=Toronto Sun|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> His early musical influences included [[Elvis Presley]], [[Joy Division]], [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]], [[Ivor Cutler]] and [[David Bowie]].<ref name="Ironside">{{cite web|url=https://louderthanwar.com/louder-than-war-interview-roy-moller-outsider-now/|title=Louder Than War Interview: Roy Moller- Outsider Now!|last=Ironside|first=Gus|date=2 June 2014|work=[[Louder Than War (website)|Louder Than War]]|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> He attended [[Trinity Academy, Edinburgh|Trinity Academy]], then moved to [[Glasgow]] where he studied English at the [[University of Strathclyde]].<ref name="Stereogram">{{cite web|url=http://www.stereogramrecordings.co.uk/artists/roy-moller/|title=Roy Moller|publisher=Stereogram Recordings|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> While there, he won the Keith Wright Poetry Competition.<ref name="Clarkson">{{cite web|url=http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/magsitepages/article/7989/Roy-Moller-Interview|title=Roy Moller - Interview|last=Clarkson|first=John|date=25 August 2015|publisher=pennyblackmusic.co.uk|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref>


Moller played in bands including Meth O.D. and The Wow Kafe. His first solo work was 2003's "Maximum Smile".<ref name="Stereogram"/> He has collaborated with [[Stevie Jackson]] from [[Belle and Sebastian]]<ref name="Clarkson"/><ref name="Pollock">{{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/music/preview-neu-reekie-at-summerhall-edinburgh-1-2536807/amp|title=Preview: Neu! Reekie! at Summerhall, Edinburgh|last=Pollock|first=David|date=20 September 2012|work=[[The Scotsman]]|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://badsoundsmagazine.com/2012/07/belle-sebastians-stevie-jackson/|title=Belle & Sebastian's Stevie Jackson - Bad Sounds Magazine |last=Sung-an Lee|first=Ann|date=15 July 2015|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> in a band called the Store Keys.<ref name="McKay">{{cite journal|last=McKay|first=Alastair|journal=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|issue=August 2014|title=New Albums: Roy Moller: One Domino|page=76}}</ref> He played with [[Davy Henderson]] in the band Jesus, Baby!<ref name="Stereogram"/> When [[Marc Riley]] interviewed him on BBC Radio in 2011, he called Moller "Scotland's best-kept secret".<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kqny0|title=BBC Radio 6 Music - Marc Riley, Roy Moller - Interview with Marc Riley|date=4 October 2011|work=[[BBC Online]]|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref>
Moller played in bands including Meth O.D. and The Wow Kafe. His first solo work was 2003's "Maximum Smile".<ref name="Stereogram"/> He has collaborated with [[Stevie Jackson]] from [[Belle and Sebastian]]<ref name="Clarkson"/><ref name="Pollock">{{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/music/preview-neu-reekie-at-summerhall-edinburgh-1-2536807/amp|title=Preview: Neu! Reekie! at Summerhall, Edinburgh|last=Pollock|first=David|date=20 September 2012|work=[[The Scotsman]]|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://badsoundsmagazine.com/2012/07/belle-sebastians-stevie-jackson/|title=Belle & Sebastian's Stevie Jackson - Bad Sounds Magazine |last=Sung-an Lee|first=Ann|date=15 July 2015|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref> in a band called the Store Keys.<ref name="McKay">{{cite journal|last=McKay|first=Alastair|journal=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|issue=August 2014|title=New Albums: Roy Moller: One Domino|page=76}}</ref> He played with [[Davy Henderson]] in the band Jesus, Baby!<ref name="Stereogram"/> When [[Marc Riley]] interviewed him on BBC Radio in 2011, he called Moller "Scotland's best-kept secret".<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kqny0|title=BBC Radio 6 Music - Marc Riley, Roy Moller - Interview with Marc Riley|date=4 October 2011|work=[[BBC Online]]|access-date=15 July 2018}}</ref>

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Roy Moller
Background information
Also known asRoy Møller
Born (1963-07-03) 3 July 1963 (age 61)
Edinburgh
Websiteroymoller.bandcamp.com

Roy Moller is a Scottish singer, songwriter and poet. He was born in Edinburgh in 1963; his parents were from Toronto in Canada, and he was adopted soon after birth.[1] His early musical influences included Elvis Presley, Joy Division, The Fall, Ivor Cutler and David Bowie.[2] He attended Trinity Academy, then moved to Glasgow where he studied English at the University of Strathclyde.[3] While there, he won the Keith Wright Poetry Competition.[4]

Moller played in bands including Meth O.D. and The Wow Kafe. His first solo work was 2003's "Maximum Smile".[3] He has collaborated with Stevie Jackson from Belle and Sebastian[4][5][6] in a band called the Store Keys.[7] He played with Davy Henderson in the band Jesus, Baby![3] When Marc Riley interviewed him on BBC Radio in 2011, he called Moller "Scotland's best-kept secret".[8]

In 2008, Moller had a son named Peter.[9] In 2013, Moller moved to Dunbar.[4] In 2014 he took My Week Beats Your Year, his musical tribute to Lou Reed, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe;[10] Gus Ironside called it "witty, mesmerising and highly poignant".[11] In the same year his poetry debut Imports was published by Appletree Writers Press,[12] and his album One Domino was called "intoxicating and compulsively habit-forming".[13]

Moller has been involved in the Dunbar CoastWord Festival,[14] and with Neu!Reekie![3][5] He contributed a poem to The Sea, a 2015 anthology to raise funds for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.[15] Louder Than War called There's A Thousand Untold Stories (2016) "a tour de force of sparkling lo-fi gems".[16] In 2017 he performed Redemptions, an evening of poetry and song, with Paul Hullah and Martin Metcalfe, at the Scottish Poetry Library.[17] In 2019, Dionysia Press published Moller's poetry collection about his birth and adoption, "Be My Baby" [18] Later that year, he returned to music, by releasing a single, Semicolon with the Chain Pier Group.[19]

Moller's musical work has been compared to Julian Cope, Vic Godard,[20] and Iggy Pop.[7] He is dyspraxic, and believes his experience of dyspraxia has influenced his work.[2][21]

He is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur F.C.[22]

Discography

  • Speak When I'm Spoken To (2006)
  • Playing Songs No One's Listening To (2011)
  • The Singing's Getting Better (with Sporting Hero, 2012)
  • One Domino (2014)
  • My Week Beats Your Year (2014)
  • There's A Thousand Untold Stories (2016)[23]
  • There's A Thousand More Untold Stories (2016)


References

  1. ^ Blizzard, Christina (13 February 2016). "A mystery from the Toronto Telegram days". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b Ironside, Gus (2 June 2014). "Louder Than War Interview: Roy Moller- Outsider Now!". Louder Than War. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d "Roy Moller". Stereogram Recordings. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Clarkson, John (25 August 2015). "Roy Moller - Interview". pennyblackmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  5. ^ a b Pollock, David (20 September 2012). "Preview: Neu! Reekie! at Summerhall, Edinburgh". The Scotsman. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  6. ^ Sung-an Lee, Ann (15 July 2015). "Belle & Sebastian's Stevie Jackson - Bad Sounds Magazine". Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  7. ^ a b McKay, Alastair. "New Albums: Roy Moller: One Domino". Uncut (August 2014): 76.
  8. ^ "BBC Radio 6 Music - Marc Riley, Roy Moller - Interview with Marc Riley". BBC Online. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  9. ^ Clarkson, John. "Roy Moller - Interview". www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  10. ^ Awde, Nick. "Reviews of Edinburgh Festival 2014". Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  11. ^ Ironside, Gus (19 August 2014). "My Week Beats Your Year: The Whole Works, Edinburgh – review of the Lou Reed inspired show". Louder Than War. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  12. ^ "Roy Moller: Imports". Edinburgh City of Literature. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  13. ^ Ironside, Gus (15 April 2014). "Roy Moller: One Domino – album review". Louder Than War. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  14. ^ "Not Burns – Dunbar!: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Roy Moller About The Dunbar CoastWord Festival…". Scots Whay Hae!. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  15. ^ "The Sea". Rebel Poetry Ireland. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  16. ^ Ironside, Gus (27 July 2016). "Roy Moller: There's a Thousand Untold Stories- album review". Louder Than War. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  17. ^ "Redemptions". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  18. ^ Ironside, Gus (2 November 2019). "Roy Moller: Be My Baby". Louder Than War. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  19. ^ Semicolon, 23 August 2019, retrieved 21 March 2023
  20. ^ "Roy Moller". thebeautifulmusic.com. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  21. ^ "Roy Moller's Story". Dyspraxia Foundation USA. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  22. ^ "https://twitter.com/roypetermoller?lang=en-GB". Twitter. Retrieved 21 March 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  23. ^ "Roy Moller Discography at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 15 July 2018.


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