Marie Hoy

Marie Hoy is an Australian musician and actress. As a vocalist and keyboardist, she was a member of Sacred Cowboys, Orchestra of Skin and Bone (1984–86), No (1987–89) and a number of bands in Melbourne's Little Band scene. As an actor, she appeared in the 1986 film Dogs in Space, where she performed the Boys Next Door's track, "Shivers". She worked with performance artist, Stelarc, on a short science fiction film, Otherzone.

Biography

Marie Hoy began as a musician in the Melbourne punk band, Thrush and the Cunts, in 1978. One of their tracks, "Diseases", Dogs in Space (1986), which depicts the local little band scene from the late 1970s. She was also a member of Too Fat to Fit Through the Door, alongside Marcus Bergner, Michael Buckley, Tom Hoy, Dave Light and Stuart Grant. They issued a track, "Flintstones Meet the Flintsones", on a four-track split extended play, Little Band (1979), with one track each by Morpions, the Take, and Ronnie and the Rhythm Boys. In the same year she appeared in another short, Etrusco Me, directed by Bergner.

Hoy also appeared in Dogs in Space, as front woman of Marie Hoy and Friends, to perform the Boys Next Door's track, "Shivers". Note: [on-line] version established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition.

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