Who can tell me anything about Holy Toy?

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All I know is that they are some kind of 80s electro/industrial band, the main guy walked all the way from his native Poland to the UK and they made a lot of noise with bits of scrap metal. Anyone heard them/can recommend releases?

― Mog, Wednesday, 12 November 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i had one record by them once... not very good.

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I had that album too...the fact that I sold it about 10 years ago and I can't remember anything about it leads me to think that it wasn't very good as well. Was it on Dead Man's Curve?

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess you are speaking of the sort of avante garde band led by Polish/Norwegian eccentric Andreij Nebb. This is the only thing I know about them, except Nebb used to be in the Norwegian band DePress before he disbanded them and formed Holy Toy, which, I think, was very much Nebb's brainchild.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Btw I found some links using Google, but they are all either in Norwegian or in Polish, apart from this discography:
http://home.online.no/~movidar/discographies/holytoy.html

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Just want to point out that Panzer and Rabbits is brilliant. Funky, spastic, carnivalesque, art damaged, otherworldly. Chaotic but somehow it all holds together.

Most of the other Holy Toy albums I've heard are hit and miss.

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

So this is the guy that now does When isn't it? I like When.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Lars Pedersen was in Holy Toy. Never heard any When.

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

pulled out panzer and rabbits last night. man, those guys were really on to something. or on something. total classic from the school of breaking-all-rules-of-music-yet-still-it's-music. yeah, I'll put panzer and rabbits up against whatever cab voltaire or einsturzende you've got laying around. for serious, it's that good. if you're not squirrelly about eastern europeans. I know some of you are.

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 16 April 2010 14:07 (sixteen years ago)

also lol @ geir posting to a holy toy thread

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 16 April 2010 14:08 (sixteen years ago)

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