Eddie Argos (born Kevin Macklin 25 October 1979) is the lead singer of English rock band Art Brut, born in Weymouth, England. He later moved to Poole, Dorset as a young child. He is a former goth, and has previously worked as a barman, mental health key worker and traffic warden.
Argos is infamous for his zany stage show, where he has played the vacuum, skipped with his microphone wire , escaped from a sack, danced with the audience and stopped songs halfway through to tell the audience 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', 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 on Top of the Pops.
He also collects Beanie Babies, and has stated his collection would be the one thing he would rescue in a fire.
Argos sporadically updates a Livejournal blog, and has a MySpace page.
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 Black Mamba Booster Gold and of DC comics in general. He writes his own comic books called "The weekly adventures of Lex Steele"
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 (And His Minor UK Indie Celebrity Allstar Backing Band).
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.
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