"The Moodies" consist of five girls and one young man from England. Roderich Melvin, Sarah Anne Bean, Polly Eltes, Suzi Adderley, Annie Sloan and Marianne Holiday put on a hit parade of the sixties and seventies as a travesty of a satirical funfair revue.
A man at the piano, made up as bald headed and deathly pale, and the five ladies who in turn take off Liza Minelli or Greta Garbo, Elvis Presley or backstair Nieze Groupies or Humming Group.
The Moodies take the word jingle of popular hits literally and with exaggerated tomfoolery unmask the idiocy of these highly saleable haunting tones. When the piano man strikes up "Catch a falling star", a star thaler child catches star spangles in her apron. When "Over the rainbow" is played, the appropriate strip of rainbow coloured material is stretched over the stage, and Baldy, dressed in a tulle skirt, pirouettes with the grace of a kangaroo. The practical joking of this troupe is a sophisticated parody and at the same time highly amusing entertainment.
All the members of "The Moodies" completed their studies in the visual arts at Reading Universitiy. There they got to know one another and starte off parodying current pop hits at student parties "just for fun". And one of the main reasons for "The Moodies'" success is that they are not trying to put across any latent or patent message, they do not travel through the country as pseudo-critical reformers, imbecilic meditators or highfalutin, sensitive aesthetes but are quite simply showbiz people, bursting with vitality.