Roy Moller

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]

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

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 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;[9] Gus Ironside called it "witty, mesmerising and highly poignant".[10] In the same year his poetry debut Imports was published by Appletree Writers Press,[11] and his album One Domino was called "intoxicating and compulsively habit-forming".[12]

Moller has been involved in the Dunbar CoastWord Festival,[13] 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.[14] Louder Than War called There's A Thousand Untold Stories (2016) "a tour de force of sparkling lo-fi gems".[15] In 2017 he performed Redemptions, an evening of poetry and song, with Paul Hullah and Martin Metcalfe, at the Scottish Poetry Library.[16] In 2019, Dionysia Press published Moller's poetry collection about his birth and adoption, "Be My Baby" [17]

Moller's musical work has been compared to Julian Cope, Vic Godard,[18] and Iggy Pop.[7] He is dyspraxic, and believes his experience of dyspraxia has influenced his work.[2][19]

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)[20]
  • 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. Ironside, Gus (2 June 2014). "Louder Than War Interview: Roy Moller- Outsider Now!". Louder Than War. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  3. "Roy Moller". Stereogram Recordings. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  4. Clarkson, John (25 August 2015). "Roy Moller - Interview". pennyblackmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  5. 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. 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. Awde, Nick. "Reviews of Edinburgh Festival 2014". Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  10. 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.
  11. "Roy Moller: Imports". Edinburgh City of Literature. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  12. Ironside, Gus (15 April 2014). "Roy Moller: One Domino – album review". Louder Than War. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  13. "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.
  14. "The Sea". Rebel Poetry Ireland. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  15. Ironside, Gus (27 July 2016). "Roy Moller: There's a Thousand Untold Stories- album review". Louder Than War. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  16. "Redemptions". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  17. Ironside, Gus (2 November 2019). "Roy Moller: Be My Baby". Louder Than War. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  18. "Roy Moller". thebeautifulmusic.com. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  19. "Roy Moller's Story". Dyspraxia Foundation USA. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  20. "Roy Moller Discography at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
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