Mind Candy

Our CEO, Michael Acton Smith landed himself on the front cover in the May issue of WIRED Magazine! His appearance on the cover leads to the feature “How To Create A Global Brand From The UK.”

 Michael isn’t the only celebrity in the office though as a few other Mind Candies got to star in the shoot too! In the far, far background yes…but we’re still there! 

It’s been a busy few weeks for the Moshi Music team as we released the first ever music album ‘Moshi Monsters: Music Rox!’ on April 2nd.

The debut album stormed the official UK album charts coming in at number 4 – ahead of iconic music artists including Madonna and Lost Prophets! Achieving a top 5 for a debut album with no radio or TV play is some feat so we’re really proud of our little musical monsters!

To support the album we hosted an exclusive media launch party at the Hard Rock Cafe in London, which was well attended by media, competition winners and celebs including McFly, Sophie Ellis-Bexter, James Bourne and Matt Willis from Busted and Javine Hylton. Zack BinSpin performed a world exclusive and there was lots of fun with more performances, Moshi tattoos, sweeties, candyfloss, a photobooth, the real McNulty pup walking the red carpet and Mr Moshi arriving in this Moshified Mini!

Mr Moshi arrives at The Hard Rock Cafe in the Moshi Mini!

McFly and Mr Moshi at the album launch party

On the day of launch we ran an event at HMV’s flagship store on London’s Oxford street for fans to see Zack perform his single and meet Mr Moshi to get their albums signed. The first 50 fans received goody bags and everyone received sweets and a Moshi mag. Hundreds of fans turned up with some queueing from as early as 5am – now that’s Moshi dedication :)

The big queue of fans outside HMV in Oxford Street, London!

Zack Binspin performing his single

Check out all the music action in this video!

There’s an exciting buzz at Moshi HQ today as word of our partnership with ‘Sony Music Records’ is spreading! We launched our new record label, ‘Moshi Monsters Music’ a while back and are now ready to rock the music scene with our debut album ‘Music Rox!’

The album is available for pre-order online as of today from Amazon.co.uk, Play.com and HMV.co.uk. Physical copies will hit shelves in the UK from April 2^nd and it will be available to download globally on iTunes!

Our music is produced in house by our brilliant Music team, headed up by Jason Perry (Head of Music) alongside Steve Cleverley and Sanj Sen (Writers/Producers). Jason is our resident rock star, having experienced huge international success fronting rock band ‘A’ and producing many number one records for McFly and Busted’s Matt Willis. We’re sure he’ll bring some of his magic from past projects to our very own MonStars! He’ll be working closely with Sony Music who will handle our UK distribution for our forthcoming music releases.

(Left to right: Jason Perry, Head Of Music Mind Candy; Nicola Tuer, EVP Sony Music; Katsuma – Moshi Monster; Nick Gatfield, Chairman and CEO Sony Music; Pete Leggatt, VP Sales Sony Music)

‘Music Rox’ features twelve tracks from our favourite Moshi characters including Dr Strangeglove, Popstar Poppet, Zommer, Big Bad Bill and Sweet Tooth. We’ve also developed some awesome new music characters including, Bobbi SingSong and Zack Binspin! We experimented a lot with the sound of our album and covered all genres from rock to Bollywood, combining catchy tunes and witty lyrics that we hope will appeal to both kids and adults.

We’re hosting an exclusive album launch party at the Hard Rock Café in London at the end of March prior to the album being released on April 2^nd. This will give our musical Monsters their first taste of gooperstardom!

Check out our new lid on the block – Zack BinSpin featuring Blingo The Fox. He’s a Moptop Tweenybop and his hair’s too long!

You can check out all of our other new artists at www.moshimusic.com

Throughout half term over 30,000 kids came to hang out with the Moshi Monsters at the National Media Museum in Bradford! Kids and families got the chance to get creative with all sorts of activities from Moshi Monsters animation workshops to taking photos and playing the game with expert hints and tips!

Our Head of Moshi Live, Clare Wiggins tells us: “The atmosphere was electric with thousands of amazing Moshi fans bringing along their Moshi collections & favourite toys each day to Bradford.  Each one was greeted by the happy and passionate staff at the Museum, who also shared the Moshi love with their customised t-shirts and bags!  There wasn’t a sad face in the house by the end of each day. So many happy fans from all the free activities and also lots of tired Moshlings for Mum and Dad to tuck up in bed after so much Moshi excitement!”

Here’s some pictures from the event and a brilliant video of Katsuma shaking his hips and tail to show the crowd his best dance moves!