The Moaning Myrtles

Hi! We're Lauren and Nina, two best friends (not sisters) who make up The Moaning Myrtles, a piano-based wizard rock band from Hillsborough, NJ. The idea for the band was sparked in November 2005 when we saw Harry and the Potters play a live show and Lauren brought up how many new wizard rock bands had started. Jokingly, Nina suggested that they start a Moaning Myrtle band. Strangely enough, Myrtle was Lauren’s first choice of a character to base a band off of as well.



We started playing live shows as The Moaning Myrtles in the summer of 2006 and we were immediately hooked. Even those first local shows attracted a turnout of dressed up and enthusiastic Harry Potter fans. Since then, we have played alongside wizard rock bands such as The Remus Lupins, The Whomping Willows, Draco and the Malfoys, The Parselmouths, Ministry of Magic, and many others.



Awards:

2007 and 2008 WRPCAs for Best Female Vocals

1973 Best Off-Broadway Revival

2007 WRPCA for Best Collaboration (with The Remus Lupins for "Snape")

1984 Grammy Award for Best Original Song

2007 WRPCA for Best Music Video (for "Sitting on the Toilet")

1963 Nobel Peace Prize

2007 and 2008 WRPCAs for Best Music Produced from Beyond the Grave

1995 Pulitzer Prize

2008 WRPCA for Best Duo

1973 Tony for Best Actress in a Musical

Jennifer Vineyard from MTV's 7th favorite wizard rock band.

You can buy any combination or quantity of our CDs, "What About Myrtle", "Toilet Humor", or Lauren's solo album "Devil's Snare" by clicking here!. Hard copies of the CD are $13 and they can be sent outside the US! They are also available on iTunes for $9.99 each.

If you need to contact us in any way, don’t worry because it’s really easy! Say hi with a comment or a MySpace message. If you’d like to book a show for us in your area, send us a MySpace message or email us at moaningmyrtles@yahoo.com. We love answering your questions, hearing your comments, and as long as you aren’t too far away we’d love to play a show at your local library, bookstore, school, or coffee shop. So definitely drop us a line!



We support the Harry Potter Alliance!!



Here's our ridiculous music video for "In Which Moaning Myrtle Moans":



We like muggle music too! This is a cover of one of our favorites, "The Last Polka" by Ben Folds: