Roy Moller | |
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| Also known as | Roy Møller |
| Born | 3 July 1963 Edinburgh |
| Website | roymoller |
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]
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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 with wife Emma, 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]
