JEZ: vocals, fender telecaster, roland sh09, speak'n'spell
CAZ: vocals, fender telecaster, jen sx1000, roland jx3p, yamaha cs01, telephone, megaphone
CHAZ: fender jaguar bass
TOZ: drums
Influences
adam and the ants, junior senior, devo, john waters, japan, cornelius, television, ac/dc, jason falkner, david lynch, phoenix, kiss, hot hot heat, noir desir, arthur fonzarelli, duran duran, prince, goldfrapp, b52's...
FAVOURITE COLOUR : green and orange
FAVOURITE NUMBER: twelve (12)
FAVOURITE NAME : alan
FAVOURITE FILM : hairspray (john waters's original film!)
FAVOURITE ALBUM COVER : piece of mind - iron maiden
Paris, summer 2005. "Let's write a pop song." Surviving on a diet of John Hughes, John Waters and David Lynch movies, it's in their tiny parisian appartment that Jez and Caz perfected the recipe for their dirty-minded angular-electro-pop-rock. Accompanied by Chaz, Toz and Jacqz, they chose a moniker in fitting with their green and orange attire: Molloy was thus born.
London, Summer 2007. Many pop songs later, the now Shoreditch-based Molloy released their first single, Tracy (Way Out Records), to critical acclaim and a digital mini album, This Is Fucking Brilliant (Kitty-Yo) which was Steve Lamacq's album of the week on Radio 1. They have also been supported and played by radio djs Alex Zane and Cheeky Pete (XFM), Tom Robinson (BBC6) and Durr dj Jonjo.
Molloy have now finished recording their new EP, Thursday Electric, which will be released this autumn on upcoming parisian label Silverstation Records and will be followed by a European tour.
They've toured all over London and their live performance has earned them this years INDY Award for "Best New Wave/Progressive Act" after being nominated by XFM-backed promoters Broccoli Music. They have also been selected to perform at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival on the XFM/PRS stage.
And Europe's taking an interest too after some great gigs in Germany and a very successful mini tour in France, where they also received high profile press and national radio play.
NEW TSHIRTS!
available in lady fit M, lady fit L, mens S, mens M (sold out - on order), mens L (on order) and youth M (tell us what size you need when you're on the paypal page)
UK: £10 including P&P
Europe: 15€ frais de port inclus
MOLLOY'S DEBUT SINGLE TRACY
OUT NOW!!
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7" Ltd edition (500) green vinyl
A - Tracy
B - Futurist Suit
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"Tracy is an absolutely filthy sounding record. And not in the normal sense of people playing sexless rock but using a distorted bass and howling a lot. No, filthy in a realistically sweaty, unedifying, holding-in-the-stomach, lagery breath kind of way. Caz Molloy digs her nails into three minutes of Cracked Actor guitars and controlled yelping to leave you feeling like you need a dozen showers and a night in a darkened room reading The Wasteland in order to recover." Frink music (FRINK Top 5, (02/07/2007)
"These kids could be the biggest anti-hipster band to appear from the ether. Really. Tracy is a killer little pop nugget with beats that remind one of the early Peaches, 'Lovertits' perhaps, spliced with the infectiously rolling B52's-esque rythm section and a chorus/hook line that, if given the appropriate radio play, would be hummed on buses, railways, street corners, cars and any other place where people congregate. If this is anything to go by, they album 'This Is Fucking Brilliant' will be mre sought after than the holy greail. Hot hot hot." One Week To Live
"This sounds like it was written by a dominatrix between customers. It’s a dirty little number, dripping with sleaze and it's all the better for it. (...) It has all the hallmarks of an indie dancefloor filler and if this gets out to enough people it will do that job very nicely indeed. A punk-girl vocal, jagged guitar and a fuzzbox holding the whole thing together, it really is a cheeky little number. One can imagine MOLLOY performing this as the house band in a fetish club. Channelling Devo and Hot Hot Heat, with a splash of John Waters and a dash of Russ Meyer - imagine that little lot in a studio and you’ll get the idea. Its infectious, electronic pop-punk and is destined for cult greatness (at the very least). 8/10" Whisperin & Hollerin
"Combining fat analogue synths and the most addictive vocal I’ve heard since Cansei de ser Sexy gave us ‘Off the Hook’; ‘Tracy’ is a loveable throw-away pop nugget that you simply can’t throw away. (...) As soon as this track gets some decent mainstream airplay it will be unavoidable. It’s a lazy comparison but Molloy have the potential to be in 2007, everything that New Young Pony Club were in 2006 (without selling out for an Intel Pentium Core Processor advert). Driven along by dance floor hooks and with inoffensive quirky humour aimed at the song’s protagonist (“Tracy lose a pound… all you want is candy, candy, candy, candy…”), Molloy have tapped into something really rather special. Jovial and poppy enough to be loved by everyone who hears it but just dark enough to retain a mystique of underground cool; ‘Tracy’ (and equally strong b-side Futurist Suit) is a must-have summer single. Without being a hype-mongerer, you need to buy this record and go see this band play a show near you NOW, because in six months time the country’s indie darlings (Peaches Geldof, Queens of Noize et al) will have claimed them as their own and you’ll be kicking yourself. If I’m any more gushing I’m going to come across like a prick (more so than usual) but there are just three more things I need to say: 1 – Buy this single! 2 – Buy this single! 3 – Buy this single!" The Blue Light District
"Molloy are totally brilliant, this is true. They are so good they could start their own cult. Not club, cult. They are that worthy of your attention. A little fun-sized sliver of electro-pop genius, this five-piece combine simple guitar, synth and irrepressible amounts of energy to create the most outrageously catchy mantras that you will find impossible to get out of your head and will be doing the "kangaroo bop" (or something similar) in its entirety after hearing, oh, I don't know, the first five seconds? This girl-fronted five-piece, in this, their latest single released through Way Out Records, urge you to "lose a pound" and "get sexy" in the style of Le Tigre, CSS or Peaches if she wasn't so filthy and insisted on getting her crack out all the time. With a brave choice of orange and green as their favourite colours, here is finally a release with attitude, a release that will grab you by your dancing shoes and bounce you up and down until you wet yourself. Not that that would look very cool and would probably ruin said dancing shoes. Anyway, Molloy should take over the world. Only you can make that happen." R*E*P*E*A*T Fanzine
“Also in a party mood are Molloy who featured in Stool Pigeon 007 when we opined “if they sped it up a little bit it might well be worth a foot shuffle down the disco.” Well guess what, get your stripper heels on and get up on that floor because this time it’s a no-holes barred minxy electroclash bash round Molloy’s and the beats are on them. ‘Tracy’ is a Peaches - meets - Le Tigre delight that is nothing if not danceable.” The Stool Pigeon
hey Malloy, was really fun playing with you guys at the Dry Bar. we're totally digging your van and I'd keep an eye on that Jen because Tom'sgot his eye on it. Anyway, we're booking a load of gigs for the August / September period, so if we could squeeze in and supposrt you guys at any point, it would be awesome. if not, see you at one of your shows soon. vik
I see from your new profile picture you now have a "Molloy Mobile". About time, you are surely Super Heroes (and Heroine)of Brilliant Alternative / Pop / Electro!
hey you, news form the semaplanet, finally our new website is online and you can listen to the full album there, I’ve also put on our myspace page three videos from our live performance at the Boston Music Room and some pics from the last STABOKKI! night so lots of new stuff to check out and we’re obviously waiting for your feedback, Take care Loris
Congratulations on being chosen as one of the nine featured performers on the Fringe Sunday PRS New Music Stage to be held in Edinburgh on 10 August 2008. We look forward to seeing you strut your stuff up on stage!
Sniff...nobody wants to come out and play with me on Sunday as me and my posse have got a non-stop weekend ahead, but I'll be at The Enterprise anyway (even if I'm half dead from lack of sleep!) Have a good'un til then, me darrrlins! xXx
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