Maya von Doll

Posted November 9, 200816 yr

Maya von Doll

“Utterly magnificent slab of haughty electro-sleaze which makes Peaches sound as predatory and erotically charged as KT Tunstall. Let them get frosty on your ass – it is winter after all.” NME [on last single ‘No Regrets’]

“Post-feminism sex rock n roll and it’s downright tasty…let’s do the nasty on the dancefloor” The Fly

Maya Von Doll was 7 years old when she was airlifted from war in Beirut onto a ship bound for Cyprus. “I wanted there to be bombs as it was more exciting,” she remembers, “but my parents knew they had to get me out.”

Four years later, in 1992, the family decided to move to the UK permanently. “I’m going to be an English girl,” declared the headstrong 11 year old, who professed, too, that she “liked their school uniforms”. But whilst other girls in her class were getting down to R ‘n’ B and hip hop (“it was ridiculous!”) Maya decided to turn her attention to the burgeoning Britpop scene.

With a list of international dates forever on the horizon, Maya’s face lights up when asked about their live performances: “The gigs! Well, in King Tut’s, the band before us got booed off stage, and the whole crowd was shouting ‘Sohodolls! Sohodolls!’ We got 5 encores.”