- Eddie Argos
Eddie Argos (born
25 October 1979 ) is the lead singer of English rock bandArt Brut ,born inWeymouth ,England . He later moved toPoole ,Dorset as a young child. He is a former goth, and has previously worked asbarman ,mental health key worker and atraffic warden .Argos is infamous for his zany stage show, where he has played the vacuum, skipped with his microphone wire [cite web |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGLd1TbCW4|title=Eddie Argos Jump Ropes|publisher =YouTube|accessdate=2008-02-19] , escaped from a sack, danced with the audience and stopped songs halfway through to tell them his thoughts on various topics, such as never listening to people in bands and finding it difficult to perform sexually. Argos is also known for his humorous, frank lyrics which talk mostly about his family, how he has embarrassed himself or his past love interests.
According to an interview with
Artrocker magazine and the lyrics of 'I Found This Song In The Road' [cite web |url=http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858636544|title=Lyrics|publisher =Songmeanings.co.uk|accessdate=2008-02-19] , he usually writes them (often on his phone) whilst going for a long walk and/or drunk.He is obsessed with
Vincent Van Gogh ,Jonathan Richman and appearing onTop of the Pops .Argos sporadically updates a
Livejournal blog [cite web |url=http://eddie-argos.livejournal.com/|title=Eddie Argos on Livejournal|publisher =Livejournal|accessdate=2008-02-19] , and has aMySpace page [cite web |url=http://myspace.com/eddieargos|title=Eddie Argos on MySpace|publisher =MySpace|accessdate=2008-02-19] .He has also collaborated with friends
The New Royal Family .Argos maintains a blog at http://the-eddie-argos-resource.blogspot.com/ from which he sometimes sells his paintings.
He is a big fan of the superhero
Booster Gold and ofDC comics in general.Argos writes a bi-weekly column about comic books for http://www.playbackstl.com/ called "Pow! To The People".
Eddie sometimes plays the bass guitar in
Keith Totp's Minor UK Indie Celebrity All Star Backing Band .Argos is also the lead singer of the project
Everybody Was In the French Resistance...NOW , in which he and multi-instrumentalistDyan Valdes ofThe Blood Arm write musical responses to pop songs. Their album "Fixin' the Charts, Volume 1" was recorded in Joshua Tree in summer 2008.Bands
*Art Brut
*The Art Goblins
*The Black Arts
*The English Travelling Wilburys
*Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now
*Art Naif
*Future and the Boy
*Glam Chops (formerly known as Paranoid Dog Bark)References
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