Cruella de Ville
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- This article describes the band. For the villain from One Hundred and One Dalmatians, see Cruella de Vil.
Cruella de Ville was a band from Northern Ireland that presented a mixture of progressive rock and goth rock from 1982-1984. Their members consisted of Colin Muinzer (now styling himself Colum Gibson) on vocals, guitar (often bowed), and violin; his sister, Philomena Muinzer, known as "Phil", (a Princeton University geology major (1978) who won awards for her creative writing), on vocals and keyboard, James Clenaghan on bass guitar, and Mike Edgar on drums. They released a number of singles, but their album was never released after Edgar absconded with the recordings. Their best-known song is "Those Two Dreadful Children", which has appeared on The Dr. Demento Show and was included, in a transfer off the vinyl single, on a Basement Tapes members-only compilation. The Muinzers own the rights to the songs, but the studio owns the recordings, and has not allowed them out of the vault. Mike Edgar is now the head of the BBC Northern Ireland's Entertainment, Events & Sport division. Phil has written a book (Memories of the Irish-Israeli War) and a play under the name Phil O'Brien (O'Brien is the Munizers' mother's maiden name), and has served as dramaturge for the Royal National Theatre.
Their other songs include "Drunken Uncle John", "Hong Kong Swing", "Blues, Blues, Blues", "Gypsy Girl", "I'll Do the Talking", "Oceans", and "Who's at the Door?". "Drunken Uncle John" and "Oceans" have a similar dark comic flavour to that found in "Those Two Dreadful Children"--the latter being an absurdist satire on drug dealing. "I'll Do the Talking" is a serious song of sibling devotion. The Muinzers, usually individually, did all the group's songwriting.
The name of the band is taken from an altered spelling of villain of the same name from the book and movie The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
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