Eddie Argos
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Kevin Macklin |
| Also known as | Eddie Argos |
| Born |
25 October 1979 Portland, Dorset |
| Genres | Post-punk, alternative rock, spoken word |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician, artist, writer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Associated acts | Glam Chops, Everybody Was In The French Resistance ... Now, Art Goblins, Art Naif, The Donalds |
Eddie Argos (born Kevin Macklin 25 October 1979) is the lead singer of English rock band Art Brut, and writer of comics.
Born in Weymouth, England, Argos later moved to Poole, Dorset as a young child, and has subsequently written about the Martin Kemp-Welch School there (now St Aldhelm's Academy), in the song "Martin Kemp-Welch Five-A-Side Football Rules!" from the album Brilliant! Tragic!.
Argos lives in Berlin with his partner and their son.
Argos is the lead singer of the rock band Art Brut, and sometimes plays the bass guitar in Keith TOTP. Argos is also the lead singer of the project Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now!, in which he and multi-instrumentalist Dyan Valdes of The Blood Arm write musical responses to pop songs. Their album "Fixin' the Charts, Volume 1" was recorded in Joshua Tree in summer 2008. In June 2011, Eddie appeared as guest vocalist on Akira The Don's "Living In The Future" single.
According to an interview with Artrocker magazine and the lyrics of 'I Found This Song In The Road', he usually writes them (often on his phone) whilst going for a long walk and/or drunk.
Argos is known for his zany live music performances, where he has played the vacuum, skipped with his microphone wire, escaped from a sack, danced with the audience and stopped songs halfway through a song to tell the audience his thoughts on various topics. 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.
In 2012, Argos wrote an article for DIY magazine as to why he should be the UK's 2013 entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
As well as his musical output, Argos is also an enthusiastic painter. He painted the front cover of Art Brut's debut single, "Formed a Band". According to Argos, the cover represents a fictional demo tape. Argos says, 'Art Bruts first ever recordings, our demos that were intended to be free on our website, became our first single. I've always been proud of the fact the front cover was of a fictional demo tape that I had imagined was in a charity shop in Poole waiting to be picked up by somebody like me'.
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