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Apollo

About Me


Being demure and self-deprecating has got me absolutely nowhere so I'm not going to beat around the bush anymore. I'm Apollo and I'm completely amazing (or annoying depending on your bent on this type of thing). Yes I just said bent.
I live in one of the scummiest areas of London and I'm about as streetwise as that woman off-of Keeping Up Appearances. I'm a complete hypocrite and about as contradictory as they come, but I GUESS IT'S ALL PART OF MY CHARM.
I used to be well depressed (as evidenced by my songs) and all I did was run around doing deeply regrettable things in other men's beds but those days are behind me and I'm madly in love with a wonderful young man nowadays so it's giddy, self-confident strutting instead of moody slouching from now on.
Give me a shot. I promise I'll impress. Or at least make you laugh.
Failing that, I'll squeeze your tits.
"Like Lady GaGa was molested by the Kraken." - Edward Key

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/11/2007
Band Members: Contact:
[email protected]

Apollo is all MOI... all vocals, piano, violin, programming, production, recording, synths, keyboard, beats etc.

Thanks are also due to
Jenna Dobson - all styling, moral support, complete biased criticism and PR.
Andy Gott - unconditional love and future tour director.
Jack Casey - profile design and logo design. May be found at http://jack-casey.blogspot.com
Influences: I've been mostly influenced by Tori Amos

Björk

Madonna

Kate Bush

Sufjan Stevens

Erykah Badu

Joanna Newsom

Goldfrapp

Peaches

Patrick Wolf

and Regina Spektor

Also: Gwen Stefani, Robyn, Bertine Zetlitz, Margaret Berger, Annie, Kelis, Girls Aloud, Monrose, Marilyn Manson, Missy Elliott, Nine Inch Nails, Incubus, Lady GaGa, Ladyhawke, Britney Spears, Nina Nastasia, Emilie Simon, Siobhan Donaghy, P!nk, Sugababes, Janelle Monáe, Frankmusik, Joan As Police Woman, Utada, Laura Veirs, Róisín Murphy, PJ Harvey, Vienna Teng, Camille, The Veronicas, Liz Phair, Lykke Li, Santogold, Rihanna, Feist, M.I.A., Emiliana Torrini, Imogen Heap, Sia, My Brightest Diamond, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Knife, Cyndi Lauper, Juliet, Ben Christophers, IAMX, Bat For Lashes, Sarah McLachlan, Final Fantasy, CSS, Dragonette, Martha Wainwright, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, David Bowie, Fiona Apple, Arcade Fire, Placebo, Metric, Tiga, The Gossip, ABBA, Lauryn Hill, Au Revoir Simone, Aimee Mann, Courtney Love, Hole, Moloko, Jenny Lewis, Devon Sproule and Stephanie Dosen.

In more general terms I have been influenced by the dissonance, variety of inspiration sources and resourcefulness of 20th Century Western Art Music, the florid vocal style and high vocal angst of opera and the raw, open sexuality and tendency towards the provocative of various prominent feminist and experimental singer/songwriters of the popular music tradition, mostly of the latter part of the 20th Century and early 21st.
Sounds Like: A 17 YEAR OLD HOMOSEXUAL WITH A BACKGROUND IN MUSICAL THEATRE AND OBSESSION WITH CLASSICAL MUSIC MAKING TUNES WITH AVERAGE EQUIPMENT IN THE BASEMENT OF A MANSION.
Failing that, Radio 3! at the Disco.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Something serious...

For a project at University I did my own version of Billie Holliday's "Strange Fruit". I did my own string accompaniment for it and it features a Tori Amos sample at the end.I could try to explain ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 May 2009 17:08:00 GMT

I'm so TRRRILLL!!!!

I have a new song up, "The Tempest" and by now you sure as hell know the drill.Yours most tempestuously,Apollox
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 14:30:00 GMT

HUZZAH HUZZAH HUZZAH

I've just redone Warning! (it's REALLY different) and put it up on my myspace.It wasn't the first song I ever uploaded here (I think it was the second one) but it was the first song I ever wrote and i...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:58:00 GMT

And thus it came to pass...

... that I wrote and recorded a NEW SONG for all to hear in all the interwobs of the world.So get yourself over to my profile, take a listen to "Waves" and tell me what you think.Yours frothily,Apollo
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:31:00 GMT

Can I just say... (RE: the whole Miss USA debacle)

...that I am completely in awe of Miss California's inherent stupidity.From what I can gather, she seems to think she should she be applauded for standing up for what she believes in no matter what. I...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:49:00 GMT

Is this incredibly sad? Almost certainly.

[I DELETED IT BECAUSE IT WAS TOO SAD AND THE FACT THAT IT WAS EXISTING WAS EATING AWAY AT MY CORE.]Well I couldn't resist, could I?And plus I doubt I'll ever be on the real thing, so it's my CHANCE, m...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:09:00 GMT

I present to you: another new song.......

I had the original (terrible) version of Aquamarine on my profile about a year ago so I can guarantee nobody remembers it.Anyway I've just completed a brand, spanking, shiny & new version specifically...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:51:00 GMT

O Sailorboy (DONK REMIX) I FUCKING KID YOU NOT!

Ok so I've been a bit bleh about the whole DONK phenomenon. Yes yes brilliant brilliant let us PATRONISE working class people because they make funny music that we think is quite ironically good yes y...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:29:00 GMT

New version of O Sailorboy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been working on this for QUITE A WHILE and finally you can get your ears around the new version of O Sailorboy.It took me fucking ages because I have no label or management and doeverything in my...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:15:00 GMT

Big Fat Update

Yes it's all been incredibly quiet chez Apollo recently and the 1.3 fans that I actually have, have probably up and left and decided they don't care anymore but WHATEVER. There is a reason for the fac...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:49:00 GMT