Library Rock's Backpages

Moloko: Home, London **

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 11 October 1999

"WE," DECLARED the blonde girl in the DJ booth, "are the Moloko sound system." This was bad news indeed. Every band currently has what it calls a "side project" — stuff that's supposedly so outré it can only be realised outside the confines of the main group. Moloko's is the so-called sound system, a grandiose title for what is basically singer Roisin Murphy and programmer Mark Brydon, augmented by a Theophilus P Wildebeest of a DJ.

Total word count of piece: 359

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.