The Moaning Myrtles (ACCEPTING PREORDERS!)

About Me

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 Laurenâ€™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.
If you need to contact us in any way, donâ€™t worry because itâ€™s really easy! Say hi with a comment or a MySpace message. If youâ€™d like to book a show for us in your area, send us a MySpace message or email us at [email protected]. We love answering your questions, hearing your comments, and as long as you arenâ€™t too far away weâ€™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":

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/27/2005
Band Website: myrtleisnotdead.com/
Band Members: Lauren (20)
vocals, guitar, bass

Nina (19)
vocals, piano, guitar

Influences: Ben Folds, The Hush Sound, Rufus Wainwright, Rilo Kiley, Joni Mitchell, Sara Bareilles, Paramore, and Andrew Slack.
Sounds Like: What About Myrtle?

This is our brand new CD, to be released on 7/10 at Portus 2008! If you are attending Portus, don't preorder because we won't be mailing them out until after we get home and we'll be selling copies at our shows there!

1. I Was There
2. Cedric
3. All I Think About (featuring The Mudbloods)
4. Choko Ono
5. Howl at the Moon
6. In Which Moaning Myrtle Moans (track by Ministry of Magic)
7. Aesthetically Pleasing (featuring Ginny and the Heartbreakers)
8. It's Too Late
9. Transparent
10. What About Myrtle?
11. You Can't Speak Snake

We are now accepting preorders and we'll be mailing them out within a few weeks! They are $13 if you live in the US and $15 if you live outside the US.

United States: $13

International Orders: $15
Devil's Snare

This is Lauren's solo CD. To listen to several tracks and order a copy, click here !

Now available on iTunes! Search for "Devil's Snare" by Lauren Fairweather in the iTunes store to download the CD. Toilet Humor

Hard copies of this CD are currently only available at our live shows.

1. And Then I Died
2. Donâ€™t Throw That Book At Me
3. Flushed
4. Sitting on the Toilet
5. He Didnâ€™t Do It
6. Hermione
7. Prefects Are Hot
8. Emo Guy
9. Let Myrtle Save The Day
10. Holiday Revenge
11. The Boy Who Lived

Now available on iTunes! Search for "Toilet Humor" by The Moaning Myrtles in the iTunes store to download the CD.
Record Label: Cheap Rent
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

And the winner is...

Hi kids! Thank you all so much for sending in t-shirt designs for our contest over the past few weeks... we had so much fun looking at them. We had so much fun that Nina sent in this winner of a desig...
Posted by The Moaning Myrtles (ACCEPTING PREORDERS!) on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:10:00 PST

New songs and a CD cover!

Our new CD (What About Myrtle?) is almost finished! Since we got a handful of the tracks done today, we decided to post some of the finished material and the CD cover artwork! Lauren also spent a few ...
Posted by The Moaning Myrtles (ACCEPTING PREORDERS!) on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:45:00 PST

What About Myrtle?

Hi kids!! We have announced the name of our third CD... it's called What About Myrtle and we'll be releasing it for Portus in Dallas coming up in mid July. We premiered part of the title track in Laur...
Posted by The Moaning Myrtles (ACCEPTING PREORDERS!) on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:29:00 PST

New T-Shirt Contest!!

Hi guys!! We are getting ready to record... get this... TWO new CD's as soon when I get back from tour later this week. With this, we are planning out what we need to restock for the summer confe...
Posted by The Moaning Myrtles (ACCEPTING PREORDERS!) on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:50:00 PST

New Solo CD Preorders!

Hi, kids!! Just wanted to let you know that I finished my solo CD! It's called Devil's Snare and it's just something I've been working on all year while I'm stuck at college. Today, I started acceptin...
Posted by The Moaning Myrtles (ACCEPTING PREORDERS!) on Sat, 03 May 2008 07:45:00 PST

Facebook Events!

Hi guys!! I'm trying to promote the Accio Bodyguard Tour I'm doing with Lena of The Butterbeer Experience in a few weeks and I set up some Facebook events for the dates that are completely booked. The...
Posted by The Moaning Myrtles (ACCEPTING PREORDERS!) on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:10:00 PST

Toilet Humor News!

We have decided to stop selling hard copies of Toilet Humor online. If you still want one, you can either order a copy before May 1st (when we will stop taking orders) or pick one up at one of our liv...
Posted by The Moaning Myrtles (ACCEPTING PREORDERS!) on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:44:00 PST

Singing with Roonil Wazlib!

Hi guys! I posted this on my YouTube account a little while ago but I drove up to Rhode Island for Matt's Whomp the House homecoming party last weekend. The lovely, talented Molly of Roonil Wazlib was...
Posted by The Moaning Myrtles (ACCEPTING PREORDERS!) on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:28:00 PST

Tour Help? Please?

Hi guys! We are now realizing that we need to put a lot more work into getting these shows booked soon because an alarming amount of libraries we’ve contacted are just not responding to our emai...
Posted by The Moaning Myrtles (ACCEPTING PREORDERS!) on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:49:00 PST

Accio Bodyguard Tour!!!

How's that for two exciting announcements? Lauren of The Moaning Myrtles and Lena who is The Butterbeer Experience can't wait to get on tour and play shows for a little under a month. We pla...
Posted by The Moaning Myrtles (ACCEPTING PREORDERS!) on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:57:00 PST