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Paul Molloy


The Coral’s gifted guitarist, Paul Molloy has announced his second solo album ‘The Madmen of Apocalypso’ which follows 2020’s lockdown-released ‘The Fifth Dandelion’. Molloy has shared the track ‘Luxury Bunker’, the first single from the album, due for release on September 6th via Spring Heeled Records. He explains: “The song is about an extremely delusional and paranoid man (probably …

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PAUL MOLLOY is something of a psychedelic pop gentleman around town. He wielded six strings in a later incarnation of The Zutons, who of course gave us that song for Amy Winehouse to conquer just about everything with. He’d come up through the Liverpudlian scene ranks, having previously being a member of both cult buzz …

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SOMEONE put music journalist and band connections-mapper Pete Frame on speed dial, because the various groovy psych-pop iterations spiralling off from The Wirral’s The Coral are like a Mandelbrot set these days and more than worthy, surely, of one of his fantastic Rock Family Trees.  Besides the sprawling, sea-shanty psych majesty of The Coral themselves, …

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THEY get absolutely bloody everywhere, these Coral boys. Turn your back for so much as a second and another one of them has stepped out from beneath the psychedelic skirts of the main band to bring you their own personal set of finely crafted tunes. Drummer Ian Skelly brought us his second, Drifter’s Skyline, just …

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Dungaree Day marks The Coral guitarist’s first foray into solo song-writing, after being a major pinion in legendary Liverpool bands such as The Zutons and The Stands. The previous two years have been a creative journey for the songwriter; besides masses of heavy touring, Molloy has gone through the losses of both his mother and …

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