Ronny Moorings

Ronny Moorings
Ronny Moorings of Clan of Xymox in concert in 2008, in Orlando, Florida
Background information
Born	(1961-05-20) 20 May 1961 (age 55) Roosendaal, Netherlands
Genres	Dark Wave Electronic music Gothic rock Industrial rock Film Music
Occupation(s)	Musician, Composer
Instruments	Guitar Keyboard Bass
Years active	1981–present
Labels	4AD, PolyGram, Metropolis
Associated acts	Clan of Xymox Pieter Nooten Frank Weyzig Anka Wolbert
Website	www.clanofxymox.com

Ronny Moorings (born 20 May 1961) is a Dutch musician best known for his work with pioneering darkwave band Clan of Xymox. After the departure of founding bandmates in the early 1990s, Moorings has been the principal singer/songwriter.

While a sociology student in Nijmegen, Netherlands in 1981, Moorings met fellow musician and graphic designer Anka Wolbert who shared a similar taste in new wave music at the time. In 1983 the two recorded a five track EP entitled Subsequent Pleasures - an apparent homage to Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures - and gave a copy to Brendan Perry after a chance encounter in an Amsterdam restaurant. Perry invited the pair to perform as the opening act for the inaugural UK tour of his own new project, Dead Can Dance, in 1984. Also while in Amsterdam, Moorings and Wolbert met fellow musician Pieter Nooten, who contributed several tracks of his own, making Xymox a trio. These songs formed the crux of the 1984 tour and the 1985 Debut LP Clan of Xymox, released on UK label 4AD. Lengthening the band's name to the title of its debut album, Clan of Xymox would go on to record two albums while signed with 4AD, achieving charting success in Europe and the United Kingdom.

In 1988, Moorings, Nooten, and Wolbert signed with New York-based record label Polygram while agreeing to shorten the name once again to "Xymox". Their Polygram debut Twist of Shadows would prove to be the most commercially successful of their career, with "Imagination" charting on the Billboard Hot 100 and the band achieving regular MTV rotation. As Xymox bandmates engaged in side projects, Moorings assumed greater control, claiming Twist of Shadows was "made entirely independently, without the rest of the musicians, who were then on vacation." After the release of 1991's Phoenix, Nooten and Wolbert left the band, leaving Moorings as the sole songwriter. After a few experimentations with electronic music style recordings, Moorings released two albums in London: Metamorphosis (1991) and Headclouds (1992) on ZOK/ X-Ult records. In 1994 he moved back to Amsterdam and resumed touring in the Netherlands with girlfriend Mojca Zugna and old band mates Frank Weyzig and William Van Antwerpen. Shortly after in 1996 Moorings wrote music for the CD-R game Total Mayhem by Domark.