Roy Moller

Roy Moller was born in Edinburgh, grew up in Leith and now lives in Dunbar in the east of Scotland. A member of Peel favourites Meth OD and instrumental outfit The Wow Kafe, whose debut single Who Will Apologise To The Emperor ("utterly ace”- NME) featured his lead guitar,
Roy released his first solo single, Maximum Smile, in 2003 on Hamburg label Felicite and collaborated with guitarist Stevie Jackson on several of the latter’s songs for Belle & Sebastian.

“A week ago I’d never heard of him, now I’m his biggest fan,” enthused BBC 6Music’s Marc Riley, prior to featuring Roy in sessions in his own right and as a member of Scottish supergroup Jesus, Baby! fronted by Davy Henderson. Roy was also part of psychedelic garage band The Store Keys, backing The Poets’ George Gallacher on his last single.

His eighth solo album, Songs from Be My Baby (The Beautiful Music, Beauty 059) draws on Roy’s poem cycle Be My Baby (Dyonisia Press, 2019). As he writes in his liner notes: In May 2015, I went to Register House in Edinburgh to have my adoption papers opened. I already knew my birth mother’s name, that she had a Canadian connection and her and my father’s occupations but few other details. This is the story of what I discovered – an extra-marital affair, an escape from starchy Ontario morals to a UK coming through the coldest winter on record, about to be rocked by scandal and Beatles as she’ll make a swift return to Toronto without a baby to keep but with plenty of secrets.