Molloy’s blog

We're on at 7.45 so get there early!

Here's Don Airey playing his Yamaha CS01 in the video for Ozzy's Bark at the Moon from 1983!
And here's Caz playing hers from Molloy's single launch in January 2009!

M is for MOLLOY!

Headlining are Molloy. They released their first single and album to critical acclaim (Steve Lamacq’s album of the week) and have recently released their new four track EP, Thursday Electric on Parisian label Silverstation Records.

“Molloy are totally brilliant, this is true. They are so good they could start their own cult.” (R*E*P*E*A*T)

Gather Round Girls “is the perfect disco-pop mix…an essential buy for the New Year” (Artrocker – Recommend)
http://www.myspace.com/thisisfuckingbrilliant

M is also for…MONSTER BOBBY

Guitarist and principal songwriter in the Pipettes backing band The Cassettes, Monster Bobby is also a “lone ranger with only his sampler for company” and playing the next WIG.

One of the earliest activists in the Brighton scene, Monster Bobby set up TB (Totally Bored) which involved bands like British Sea Power and The Eighties B-Line Disaster.

Monster Bobby is signed to Hypnote which released his album, Gaps..."a little gem of a record" (BBC)
http://www.myspace.com/monsterbobby

O is for OLYMPUS MONS

Olympus Mons are signed to Dad Records and have recently released their album Nothing’s Gonna Spoil My Day Today. They have shared the stage with bands such as the Babyshambles, The Delays and The Maccabees.
http://www.myspace.com/theolympusmons

B is for BLUEBELL WOULD

“Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue, she sings a song of the sky; of lust and longing and revenge. He plays the guitar like a demon whilst gazing at his shoes"

Together they are Bluebell Would, and – with a heady mix of influences ranging from Bert Jansch to Dolly Parton – they weave a wild, acoustic spell to the jingle-jangle beat of a tambourine.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bluebell-Would/57705978157

W is for WIG DJs until late on.

£5/£4 with flyer

Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21716689867

And come to this...

Check-out time at the hotel...we pile everything into a cab and head over to CIUT radio!!!

We get a couple of hours to set up & record 4 tracks for CIUT before piling all the gear into another cab and heading off to the airport for our flights back to Engerland!
Here are the 4 songs we recorded live with the lovely Jonathan Hawkes for Take 5 on CIUT...enjoy! Goodbye Toronto! We had a great time! Met some great people! We'll be back! x

After snoozing through the last few hours of conferences, Molloy head out into the streets of Toronto with Mikey as their guide!
Whilst Molloy wait for their dinner at Café Crèpe...
...Mikey tries to hustle-up a last minute Molloy show!
Caz finally finds her holy grail...the Joan Jett signature Gibson double cutaway Melody Maker! We get to the guitar shop 10 minutes before it closes after a frantic cab journey across downtown Toronto, have a quick play, and the deal is done...Caz has her new ROCK axe!
Great shop! It's a shame we arrived so late...we could have spent all day in there...
As the sun sets over Toronto we head back to the hotel to prepare for our final night in Canadia!

But on the way back we decide to say goodbye to the Rok Boutique...in the hope that we can find the slider that dropped off of Caz's Yamaha CS01 the evening before after our showcase...
...and we found it!!! In the gutter!! This fact didn't seem to put Mikey off from displaying the found article in his mouth...
And back at the hotel we enjoy a very large pizza indeed...so large in fact, that there was one slice left when we had finished!!! Then it's out to party and see some bands including our new friends "Modern Boys/Modern Girls" and "Bella Clava" who helped us out with synth stands for our gigs! Cheers guys!!
Chris & Mikey...ROCK terrorists!
Molloy & Mikey partying with Dave Foley!!!! Yay!

After a morning of networking & conferences, we bump into Mikey! Yay!
We continue by playing charades in the foyer, briefly joined by the lovely red bull girls, who were rubbish at charades, but gave us free red bull, yay!

So, bad news when we get to our hotel...they can't get as a taxi-van to take us & our equipment to the venue for our showcase. Concierge points outside and says "He'll take you for the same price though"...so we all pile into a limo!
After "arriving in style", we instantly took a shine to the Rok Boutique...
The sound engineer's booth! Posters of Van Halen, Ratt, Ozzy...how can you not LOVE this place? (Peter the sound engineer was lovely, too...)
Molloy...Dressed to kill.
"Smokin' in the Boys Room"...or, as Chris cleverly pointed out, "Lord of the Smoke Rings"...
Okay, now we're ready to get on that stage and ROCK!!!!!
And we did...
Then around 1am it's time to start thinking about packing our stuff into a taxi and heading over to the legendary "El Mocambo"... not only have the Stones played there back in the day...but we are about to tread the same boards as...Judas Priest!
We arrive as The Johnstones are finishing up a very enjoyable, energetic set (the drummer is the new Tommy Lee!) and start setting up our show during the lovely The Rubicks' set..."Shore-ditch!". Come on! And we hit the stage just gone 3am!
Luckily Mikey Manville turned up at the Elmo too and took some photos of us!

We had a great night!!!! Rock and Roll!!!!!