Mandy Kane

Mandy Kane started playing in high school rock bands but wanted to pursue a music career more seriously than his bandmates. Consequently, he filled his bedroom with home recording equipment and started writing songs. He says his songs are inspired by a variety of rock icons from bygone eras - from David Bowie (in his Ziggy Stardust era) and Alice Cooper to The Beatles and Pink Floyd. Seeking other outlets to develop his musical and theatrical sensibilities, he joined local drama groups and rallied fellow outsiders to be his back-up band, with whom he cut his teeth on the live circuit, playing at local venues. He started sending his demos to record companies and eventually signed with Warner Music. He states on his website: "Warner Music was the only company willing to give me the degree of control I wanted with my own project." He recorded his demos in Los Angeles with Chris Vrenna, who had also worked with Nine Inch Nails. However, Mandy Kane and the label both thought that the finished work had lost something in the re-recording process. While keeping some of the work, they commissioned Tony Espie who had worked with The Avalanches, New Buffalo, Architecture iin Helsinki and Christine Anu to finish off the album at the Exchange in London. The album Tragic Daydreams was released on April 5, 2004. Warner released a series of singles from the album. The first single was called Stab, which is a statement against teen suicide, and made the Australian Top 20 singles in the second half of 2003. Billy Bones was the second single reaching number 36 in the ARIA charts. Billy Bones is based on a character who plays with fireworks in his bedroom like Kane played with his recording equipment as a teenager. The third single, Stupid Friday, was released in early March 2004 and made the Australian Top 40 on March 8 2004. Mandy Kane's cover version of "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran is on the soundtrack for Australian movie "One Perfect Day". Mandy Kane has also performed live on numerous occasions. He played a showcase gig at the Australian premiere of the Matrix Revolutions before an audience including Keanu Reeves. He also performed as the support act for Marilyn Manson and Machine Gun Fellatio in the latter half of 2003, with Manson giving him a parting gift of a bowler hat. The album did not achieve the commercial success expected, so his contract with Warner Music did not continue and he was not re-signed. Mandy Kane now has his own label, Mummy's Boy Records, through which he released his first independent single, (UK) Hanky Panky as a digital download. It features on the EP, "Murder in the Daylight", which was released in April, 2006. Mandy Kane also plays the lead role in a short film called "eleVATE", which he also scored and wrote the theme song for, titled "Glitch" (included on the Murder In The Daylight EP). The movie is about a man who has an unhealthy obsession with an elevator. 2008: MK has been focusing more on the production side of his career over the past two years, writing for and producing other artists, as well as remixing. In May 2008, he released a new single (digital format only) "Far From Oblivion", and will be back with a new album with some interesting collaborations in early 2009.