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Michael Knight

With the Crosby tache he still's young

About Me


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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 by clicking here"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:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/4/2005
Band Website: yesboyicecream.com
Band Members: An ever-shifting smorgasmobord of self-designated beautiful people and bitter, disgruntled social outcasts (these not being mutually exclusive)
Influences: YOUR 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 Label: yesboyicecream records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Album Launch Sugar Club May 3rd

You'll be grateful to know that I initially attempted to make this message more entertaining by writing it as a dialogue in the style of one of those annoying radio ads, except it was going to be clev...
Posted by Michael Knight on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:06:00 PST

Hard Working Class Hard Work

Quick note to tell you that Michael Knight, in some guise or possibly disguise, will be playing at the Hard Working Class Heroes festival in Dublin Saturday the 29th of this very month...you can get m...
Posted by Michael Knight on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:48:00 PST

SKWBN/Michael Knight/Groom/Pantone247...and a Berlin show...

A gig!Agog?You should be.yesboyicecream records presents:Suburban Kids with Biblical NamesMichael KnightGroomPantone 247Kennedy's of Westland Row, Sunday 29th July, 2pm or so until 6 or so. ¬10.Live m...
Posted by Michael Knight on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:49:00 PST

Live Sex Show Sugar Club Sat 16th June

That's a trick I learnt in the marketing module of my MBA.Anyway, celeb-spotters take note, "Richie" from "Michael Knight" will be tinkling ivories, fake or otherwise, at the launch of Mumblin' Deaf R...
Posted by Michael Knight on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:36:00 PST

Slow news day today

We're featured, I'm told (I haven't been able to access it just yet to confirm the rumours) on the latest podcast from the oh so kind Jenny Huston at http://www.music.coca-cola.com/podcasts (yes evil ...
Posted by Michael Knight on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:25:00 PST

Interview

Fun (possibly) interview here
Posted by Michael Knight on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:17:00 PST

Michael Knight January Gigs

Hi Dear Friends!Hope you had a great 2006 and I promise 2007 is going to be even better*! :):):):):)This slightly creepy and overfamiliar greeting serves as a preamble to the following:a) Michael Knig...
Posted by Michael Knight on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:25:00 PST

More gigs

Yes, more...as if the last ones weren't pain enough (this can be read as referring either to the gigs or the posts):Thu 19th Whelan's, Dublin, supporting The Essex Green. We're on at 8.30pm apparently...
Posted by Michael Knight on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:43:00 PST

The Hub, this Friday

(mumbled greeting)This is a quick reminder, for those who need reminding, that we'll be playing this Friday night in the Hub, Eustace Street, Dublin, as part of the Hard Working Class Heroes bestival,...
Posted by Michael Knight on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:04:00 PST

Michael Knight Whelan's Sat 23rd

All you good good people, listen to me (hope youse enjoy the reference): this Saturday, Michael Knight will be providing some of the filling for Ham Sandwich, that is to say, supporting them, as they ...
Posted by Michael Knight on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:18:00 PST