Talk:The Moody Boys

Membership status of Jimmy Cauty
The assertion that Cauty was a member of the Moody Boys has been tagged as "citation needed" since at least February 2007, and I asked for a source on this talk page back in April 2006. I suspect the notion that Cauty was a member came from Lazlo's discography, although he did state he didn't know for sure if Cauty was ever a member at all. Of course, it might also be true.

I've done the best I can to try and clear this up by presenting the sources I have found: 2 articles from reputable publishers (written, alas, after this article made the assertion so we cannot be certain beyond reasonable doubt they didn't lift it from here). AllMusic don't mention Cauty by name. Cauty is listed separately from the Moody Boys as a producer on one of their releases, and he did not appear in their 1991 Peel Session.

I have tried to be careful to present the sources as I find them without editorialising; on the other hand I don't wish to give readers incorrect information so I have noted in the infobox that Cauty was probably just a collaborator. A copyedit is of course welcome, as are more sources - in particular, reputable bios pre-2006 (ideally from the time) which state one way or another if Tony Thorpe is the Moody Boys or if at some point Jimmy Cauty was a member too. I suspect the former is the truth. It's a bit of mystery like Alex Paterson's involvement with the KLF; I can only imagine that with Trancentral being a squat with a recording studio, and reputedly something of a party house, there was a lot of cross-pollination, with Jimmy helping out/working with Alex and Tony and vice versa.

The article also needs some work on Thorpe's activities since 1994. It appears he resumed releasing records in the 2000s and is still active as a live act or DJ under the Moody Boyz name. --kingboyk (talk) 04:37, 18 March 2020 (UTC)