Misty Woods
Misty Woods is a Welsh singer and lyricist, currently living in London.
Box Office Poison
Misty Woods became lead singer of cult south London 'pop noir' band Box Office Poison in 1996, replacing Debbie Detroit. She recorded a number of singles, tracks for compilation albums and one album, "Heavy Breathing Decade" (Future Legend Records, 1997) with the band. However, the releases were unsuccessful critically and commercially and she left the band in 2000.
Molotova
Between 1997-2001 Woods was lead singer of Molotova, with keyboard player Yannick Muet. The band released a single album, "Warm Up", in 1999, and featured in the 2000 In The City festival. Woods left the band in 2001, with Muet going on to form the band Ninotchka, who have periodically toured pubs in London with limited success ever since.
Ed Ball
From 1999-2001 Misty worked with Ed Ball, former guitarist, singer and founder member of the Television Personalities and The Times. The collaboration resulted in a single album release, "Pirate Playlist 66" (Creation, 1999); however, Woods was not listed on the album credits. Ball included a track written by Woods, Days of Wine and Roses, in his set during a recent European tour. This resulted in the pair collaborating in the studio and performing live shows during 2006. Ball and Woods continue to write songs together, although there have been no releases. They also work together on film.
Ju Ju Babies
Woods & London-based DJ DJ Stix formed the Ju Ju Babies in 2001, together with drummer David Lockwood. The band released a single four-track EP ("Electrotrash", No Head Required, 2004),and were extremely influential on the early electroclash scene,and were instrumental in creating the Electrotrash scene which followed. A number of designers, artists and bands cited them as a major influence; Russell Mael of Sparks describing them as "Undoubtedly the coolest un-signed group in the UK, and maybe the coolest of the signed too" in 2002.
The Ju Ju babies were characterised by their deliberately poor quality sound and lyrics, and by their unusual clothing, with Woods GeneRally appearing on stage wearing clothing made from bin liners and hazard tape, a style later copied by a number of other female and transvestite performers on the London club, gay and goth music scenes.
In 2004 the band were the resident live band at the weekly Manumission club night at Privilege, the world's largest nightclub. They were also the first band to perform at Ibiza Rocks, which they did for a period of 3 months in 2004.
Following the Manumission residency, the Ju Ju Babies split to pursue other projects. Misty Woods continued to perform at Manumission.
GDM
In 2006 Misty joined with The Grid members Richard Norris and Dave Ballof Soft Cell to form Misty Woods & GDM. The band were characterised by a more electronic sound than her previous projects. The band did not release any recorded material, but played a number of major shows, most notably a bizarre and somewhat inappropriate appearance at the Whitby Gothic Weekend. A deal with Errol Alkan and Wizard's Sleeve precluded Norris from continuing with the project and it folded. Amidst rumours of requests from recording labels and shows such as Jools Holland for classically trained Woods to appear as a solo artist, she continues to work with Dave Ball and other producers including Andy Smith of Portishead on a number of music and art-related projects, although recent public appearances have been rare. Currently in the studio recording an album on Some Bizarre. Also recording with The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.