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Michael Knight
Alternative / Indie / Pop

With the Crosby tache he still's young



Berlin/Dublin, Cappucino and Cream Cheese Bagel
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Member Since9/4/2005
Band Websitewww.yesboyicecream.com
Band MembersAn ever-shifting smorgasmobord of self-designated beautiful people and bitter, disgruntled social outcasts (these not being mutually exclusive). Or, more specifically, and alphabetised: Ambika Thompson (bass, vox), Andrea Augustin (trumpet), Andreas Schöllig (guitar), Julia Friedrich (violin), Martin Petersdorf (drums), Richard Murphy (keys, vox), Stacey Anderson (vox)
InfluencesYOUR CHILDREN, mostly in a bad way.

Or, more effusively; vaguely pretentious but also designed to awaken some sense of the named in the reader...and alphabetised for neatness & obscurity (this is but a fluid and merely representative list; one aspires, zenlike, to the condition of a sponge):

action [ak-shuhn] v 1. to achieve (stated) goal, to get (usually specified) ball over the line, to avoid kicking to touch. Usage note: one need never bother learning verbs again, as they can all be elegantly replaced with an "action" + noun combination e.g. action the eating of dinner, action the waking from sleep, etc.
Allianz Direct for employing obviously psychopathic individuals as advertising frontpeople
Bach for being so magisterial and combining such technical mastery with such endlessly life-affirming music
Bacharach for introducing such wonderfully inventive chord and time changes to popular music, cloaked in the guise of reliable suaveness
Beatles for the synergy (as evinced by the subsequent solo careers) but mostly for trying anything...oh and the tunes too I suppose
Beckett for demonstrating the importance of focussing on the fundamentals of one's "vision" and dispensing with everything else
Beethoven for finding so many completely unrelated ways in which to be a genius, for the mindbendingly complete reinvention that was his late period, for the monstrous and bizarre Missa Solemnis and utterly mindboggling Op.111, but most of all for his personality...strong, intelligent, warm, joyous, sad, sometimes nasty, but always strong
Don Conroy...explanation unnecessary
Fair City for showing how nonsense can truly lead to the greatest joy
Gaudí for (although I can't claim to know anything about architecture) the breathtaking marriage of crystalline purity to such gnarled wildness
Hitchcock for (although not being my favourite director, in fact I don't think I have one) making deliberate technical innovations always serve the overall point of the movie
Mahler for the intellect and the sentimentality and the horror and the irony
Mussorgsky for showing that ugly can be beautiful...it helps to remember this when facing the mirror first thing in the morning
Nabokov for the delivery of black humour with such devastatingly eloquent style
Puccini for making one's heart swell (if a little guiltily) with the tunes
Wilson for (in his couple of anni mirabiles, at least) such relentlessly original chord changes and tunes that skipped and shimmied unpredictably around said changes
Sounds Like, film, 2 words
Record Labelyesboyicecream records
Type of LabelIndie


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   About Michael Knight


I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6!

First off, should you wish to be kept abreast of the ever-inexhaustible supply of exciting Michael Knight-related news and exotic happenings and sexual misunderstandings and gigs and the like, then do email us at michaelknight@yesboyicecream.com and we will relate all.

Michael Knight are a Berlin/Dublin-based indie pop band. A mutually parasitic but sadly inescapable marriage of the stylish black humour of Vladimir Nabokov and the sophisticated pop sensibilities of Burt Bacharach, sung deadpan and upholstered with tinkly pianos, loud guitars and sweeping strings.

Our new album I'm Not Entirely Clear How I Ended Up Like This is hitting the shops RIGHT ABOUT NOW, but if you prefer to avoid people and the potential for collecting germs, you can always have it DELIVERED by clicking on this button, this button here:
"So much that is original and unusual about away-from-the-mainstream music-making informs this second album from Richard Murphy and his collective: a sleeve like a tattered, secondhand book; lyrics presented in play-script form; a sprawling opening track of Swingle-Singers-on-the-lash vocal ravings; the threat that beneath the formal, chamber-pop structures, chaos lurks and dissonance hums; the primacy of the artistic vision, with nothing sweetening or diluting its purpose. Deluded misanthropists, defeated idealists, becalmed lovers, materialistic arrivistes and vengeful exes people the “11 Tableaux”, with Murphy’s laconic singing and Bacharachian progressions just about joining the dots. Pretty odd, but rather fine." The Sunday Times

"I'm not entirely clear why Richie Murphy isn't already a huge star in his own country...From the post-modern sleaze of 'Coronation Street' to the ironic triumph of the title track, Murphy's theatrical wit and daring sense of melody puts him on a footing with the likes of Stephen Merritt, Neil Hannon and even Noel Coward. A truly victorious album." State Magazine



Our previous album Youth Is Wasted On The Young can be obtained in old-fashioned physical format by clicking here
and in newfangled digital format at this link thanks to the nice people at www.indiecater.com

"Why Michael Knight aren't already huge is both baffling and beguiling; but there lies a persisting talent for songwriting within; sooner or later these songs will be discovered and consequently as eulogised as that hairy buffoon and his silly talking car are. I may as well say it in advance, then; I told you so." www.soundsxp.com

"Quirky and idiosyncratic, Youth Is Wasted On The Young is a singular debut. Full of harmonic vocals, swirling melodies and odd chord progressions, it's a complex yet accessible pop record" Hot Press

"There's a sophistication about Youth Is Wasted On The Young that's not found in many debuts, so redress the indignity of this album's criminal disregard and pick it up now" www.entertainment.ie

"Michael Knight's Richie Murphy is a writer of supremely beautiful songs which have a heart, a soul, a wry sense of humour and none of that upsetting necessity to make every lyrical couplet rhyme." In Dublin

"...completely bowled over by "Waves To The Shore" with its gorgeous guitar tone and boy/girl vocal melodies...This is quite a lovely debut from this band, from the (mostly) fantastic songs to the attractive children's book-ish artwork. Nice!" www.indiepages.com

"This is the worst album I've heard all year" Mick Hucknall

"the most perfect summer indie-pop album in ten years" www.pennyblackmusic.com

"Highly impressive pop" Irish Independent

"Cruel but catchy indie anthem" Irish Times (Foals single review)

"Irresistibly catchy songs and feel-good melodies" Sunday Tribune



Here's a video for Leaving Town (from Youth Is Wasted On The Young)...directed by Priya Sanghvi:

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Entertain yourselves by trying to find the mistakes disguised as embellishments in this live video of Coronation Street, directed by Ricardo Segurado:



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Patrick Leydon

Patrick Leydon



Dec 21 2009 10:52 PM

Hi,

Just put up some new songs.



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THANKS!

PATRICK


Club 2010 Berlin

Club 2010 Berlin



Dec 17 2009 3:56 PM


// SAMSTAG 19.12.09 // IM 2010 //

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FREIER EINTRITT + FREIGETRÄNK

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10407 Berlin

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I Draw Slow

I Draw Slow



Dec 16 2009 5:19 PM

autumn owls

autumn owls



Dec 16 2009 3:45 PM





MAGNIFICENT MUSIC

MAGNIFICENT MUSIC



Dec 16 2009 11:27 AM

..:: MAGNIFICENT BIRTHDAY ::..

Di 22. Dezember, 22.00 Uhr

live
SANDY BIRD
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THE MAGNIFICENT BROTHERHOOD

THE MAGNIFICENT BROTHERHOOD



Dec 16 2009 2:25 AM

Dear friends: Dance your life away!!! ...what else...
EVRIM TUZUN

EVRIM TUZUN
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Dec 13 2009 9:07 PM


Was busy at the studio. so how bout u?

EVRIM TUZUN

www.evrimtuzun.com

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Add EVRIM TUZUN
let's kiss and make up

let's kiss and make up



Dec 12 2009 12:16 PM

Sonntag 13.12. ab 18 Uhr im Bang Bang Club Charity-Weihnachtsspecial mit selbstgebackenen Plätzchen, Glühwein, Tombola & Weihnachtszauber. Live spielen Je Suis Animal (NOR), A Heart Is An Airport (D)sowie Dorothy Of The Day (AUS) Let's kiss and make up wird einen Teil der Abendeinnahmen der Kältehilfe der Berliner Stadtmission zukommen lassen. Kommt zahlreich und helft mit eurer Spende den vielen auf der Strasse lebenden Menschen in Berlin & genießt gemütliche Adventsatmosphäre und wunderschöne Konzerte.
bennet pimpinella

bennet pimpinella



Dec 10 2009 12:33 AM


The Bloody Beetroots -ROMBORAMA- official videoclip from Bennet Pimpinella on Vimeo.


Romborama is the fruit of one day of shooting and two and a half months of scratching, torment, solitude, anxiety and inspiration…. To achieve the right degree of confusion. I lacerated 15000 frames on a 35mm film. Then I added letraset, colour and in the end I applied the screentones, used by designers to emphasize the colour contrast. www.bennetpimpinella.com
DooLoad

DooLoad



Dec 8 2009 3:10 PM

Danke für die Freundschaft Michael Knight. Dafür gibts von uns für Euch:

let's kiss and make up

let's kiss and make up



Dec 7 2009 10:32 AM

Let's Kiss and make up lädt
ein: Mittwoch 09. Dezember ab
21 Uhr
:
Shoegaze Konzertabend mit The Domino State (UK) und Shoe Black Smile (D) im Bang Bang Club. Dazu liefert das DJ- Team
aus Pop Assistants + p!o!p kombinat berlin den passenden Sound
aus Indie Pop, Twee, C86 etc.
Sonntag 13.12. ab 18 Uhr: Charity-Weihnachtsspecial mit selbgebackenen
Plätzchen,
Glühwein, Tombola & Weihnachtszauber. Live spielen Je Suis Animal
(NOR)
A Heart Is An Airport (D)sowie Dorothy Of The Day (AUS). Let’s kiss and
make up wird einen Teil der Abendeinnahmen der Kältehilfe der Berliner
Stadtmission zukommen lassen. Kommt zahlreich und helft mit eurer
Spende
den vielen auf der Strasse lebenden Menschen in Berlin & genießt
gemütliche
Adventsatmosphäre und wunderschöne Konzerte.


Roger Molls

Roger Molls



Dec 3 2009 3:24 PM


If you like good instrumental hip hop;

Roger Moll's. "Hipology". Clip. 3"30.
Club 2010 Berlin

Club 2010 Berlin



Dec 2 2009 11:26 PM

RAMON REMUS

RAMON REMUS
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Dec 2 2009 7:28 PM

Bottlenote

Bottlenote



Dec 1 2009 11:19 AM


Bottlenote Festival // December // Friday 4th & Saturday 5th //
Twisted Pepper, Abbey Street, Dublin 1 // 8pm // €12/8

Spread over two nights in Dublin's Twisted Pepper, with artists from Norway, Paris, Denmark, Dublin, Estonia and London, The Bottlenote Festival 2009 is a major event for improvised music in Ireland.

The festival showcases the work of Bottlenote musicians and promotes collaborative practice between Irish jazz musicians and their European counterparts, providing audiences with an exciting snapshot of the best new improvised music both across Europe and here in Ireland.

www.bottlenotemusic.com
Agnes Milewski

Agnes Milewski



Nov 30 2009 9:01 PM

Liebe Freunde! Wir haben tolle News! Für das diesjähre "Abschluss" Konzert in der Moritzbastei in Leipzig am 8.12. dürfen wir ganz besondere Gäste begrüßen: Letzte Instanz-Cellist B. Cellini mit seinem Kollegen Karl Helbig und dem Projekt Land über. Die Letzte Instanz geht am 11.12.2009 bis zum Jahresende auf Tour und Benni ist selbstverständlich dabei. Trotzdem hat er zugesagt den Abend für Agnès Milewski und Band einzuleiten. TICKETS: http://www.moritzbastei.de/site/programm/tickets/evt.php?sid=7048 Wir freuen uns riesig, das wird ein ganz toller Abend! Liebe Grüße, Agnes und Band
SOAP

SOAP



Nov 30 2009 4:01 PM

SOAP for dirty bitchez!!!!

FRIDAY DEC 11th @ L.U.X.!!!

This time we get DIRTIER!!!

Guest DJ: DJ Hedda Resident DJ's: Mary Velo, Metzgerei, Cindy Wonderful Performance: SOAP DIRTY DANCERS *Soot Mannequins* (Barcelona)

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I Draw Slow

I Draw Slow



Nov 24 2009 3:08 PM

The Green Shamrock

The Green Shamrock



Nov 20 2009 11:35 AM

Thank
you for accepting us as one of your friends.

We are glad to be among
your friends on myspace...

Kind
regards

The Green Shamrock

amSTARt

AmStart Concerts for you



Nov 16 2009 5:33 PM





FOXY BOXER DJ-TEAM

FOXY BOXER DJ-TEAM



Nov 15 2009 2:35 PM

"WELCOME TO PRETTY TRASHY BALLROOM"!

Live:
Freddy Famous, Trike!, Jemek Jemowit & The Mokkers
DJs: Foxy Boxer DJ-Team

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Maria Staump (NEW Song!)

Maria Staump (NEW Song!)



Nov 13 2009 6:50 PM

Thanks for the support!
Cheers,
Maria
www.mariastaump.com

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The Criterion Band

The Criterion Band



Nov 12 2009 5:40 AM

Hi Michael Knight, check out our new track "Long Legs"
Cindy Wonderful

Cindy Wonderful



Nov 12 2009 1:42 AM

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