Alex Day

Alex Day
Alex Day

Day speaking at VidCon in 2010
Background information
Birth name Alex Richard George Day
Also known as Nerimon,
nermiearmyhq
Kyle Salmon
Cocky (Sons of Admirals)
Born 8 April 1989 (1989-04-08) (age 22)
Origin Hornchurch, Essex
United Kingdom
Genres Trock, Rock, Pop
Occupations Musician, Singer-songwriter YouTube producer
Instruments Guitar, Ukulele, Bass, Keyboard, Drums
Years active 2006–present
Labels DFTBA Records
Associated acts Sons of Admirals, Chameleon Circuit, Chartjackers, Youstage
Website alexdaymusic.com

Alex Richard George Day[1] (born 8 April 1989) is a musician and YouTuber[2] from Essex, England[3]. He has performed and recorded solo and as a member of the groups Chartjackers, Youstage, Chameleon Circuit and the now dissolved Sons of Admirals. He appears on his popular YouTube channel Nerimon.


Contents

Music Career

Chameleon Circuit

Standing in the doorway of a TARDIS at the BBC Television Studios[disambiguation needed ] London

Day is a founder of the band Chameleon Circuit, an alternative trock band from England.[4] Other band members include Charlie McDonnell,[note 1] Liam Dryden,[note 2] Ed Blann,[note 3] and Michael Aranda.[note 4] Chris "Ginger Chris" Beattie[note 5] is a former member of the band, having left the band for personal reasons.[5] The band's music is inspired by the sci-fi television series Doctor Who.[6] Chameleon Circuit's self-titled album was released on 1 June 2009 by DFTBA Records.[7]

After attributing the invention of Trock to Day's YouTube alias "Nerimon", a reviewer in Wired News described its rapidly growing popularity: "Following the community model of Wrock, Time Lord Rock invites interested whovians of all skill levels to form bands and write songs celebrating the various characters, elements and incarnations of the Doctor Who series. The project seems to be off to a good start, with some 28 video responses and nearly a thousand comments attached to the initial Trock announcement video in just under a week. [...] With band names like The Medusa Cascade, Heart of the TARDIS, and Quantum Locked, Trock is poised to become a referential feeding frenzy for musically inclined hardcore fans and a fun diversion for neophytes. I'd also be remiss if I didn't namedrop Nerimon's own project, the aptly named Chameleon Circuit, whose tracks "Blink" and "An Awful Lot of Running" are at the vanguard of the movement."[2]

Another reviewer panned Trock music in general, but expressed a somewhat better opinion of Chameleon Circuit: "A few artists producing trock have a bit of musical flair in their hip pocket, making for decent tunes. For example, Chameleon Circuit, a band led by Who fan Alex Day, puts out titles that could pass for chart-toppers – if they weren't excessively nerdy in the subject matter department."[8]

Discussing the Trock music scene, one reviewer said: "This phenomenon is so huge, so world-changing, that it has its own internet forum".[9] "Trock On!", a compilation of Trock music including performances by Chameleon Circuit and seventeen other groups, was released in August 2009.[10]

On the 12th July 2011, Chameleon Circuit released their second album Still Got Legs. The album faced multiple problems and delays as Michael Aranda was not allowed back in England after the band's brief trip to Paris. It is also the first album in which Edd Blann got involved as he replaced Chris Beattie.

Television

Chartjackers

Main article: Chartjackers
Live performance with Chartjackers

Day was a featured artist on the BBC Two reality show Chartjackers in the autumn of 2009.[11] Chartjackers challenged four YouTube video producers to write, record and release a pop song in ten weeks, using YouTube as a crutch to get lyrics and singers,[12] with the proceeds going to the BBC Children in Need charity.[13] Day was cast in the series for his familiarity to young British YouTube viewers and to "act as a Pied Piper to the teen audience".[14] The completed single, entitled "I've Got Nothing", was sung by vocalists Adam Nichols and Miranda Chartrand, and was released worldwide through the iTunes Store on 9 November 2009. It was reviewed, with varying degrees of approval, by various media outlets, including The Times,[15] Yahoo! Music's James Masterton,[16] BBC Radio 1's Chart Blog[17] and Popjustice.[18] The song peaked at Number 36 in the UK Singles Chart[19] and raised almost £10,000 for Children in Need.[20] Day also appeared with the Chartjackers at the Hammersmith Apollo for the BBC Switch Live 2009 show, along with artists such as Black Eyed Peas, N-Dubz, and Pixie Lott.[21][22]

Upstaged

Day was a member of Youstage,[23] an ad-hoc group of YouTube vloggers[24] who competed successfully on the BBC Three talent show Upstaged during March 2008.[25]

Media

Nerimon

Day created his first YouTube channel, Nerimon, in August 2006. Originally, Nerimon was a character Day created when he was younger and writing Digimon Fan Fiction.[26]

Owing to the popularity of his first channel, Day attended the October 2007 YouTube-Australia launch party in Sydney.[27] In December 2007, Day invented the "Vlog Tag game"[28] which, according to a BBC News article, "swept YouTube" and by January 2008, Nerimon had "a 10,000 strong gang of followers."[29] In October 2008, The Guardian described Day as "one of Britain's most popular YouTubers."[30] The Daily Telegraph described Day as "one of the more successful [YouTube] partners in the UK."[31] By March 2009, Nerimon's popularity had reached the point that a song was written about him, called "Mrs. Nerimon" – the main posting of which has logged 584,383 views as of 12 September 2010 (2010 -09-12).[32] The song was written in a bet by fellow YouTuber, Kristina Horner,[note 6] who later became Day's girlfriend.[33]

As of July 2011, his YouTube channel was the Most Subscribed UK channel of all time in the 'Comedian' category.[citation needed] His channel, 'Nerimon', currently has roughly 400,000 subscribers.[34]

fiveawesomeguys

Day was part of the YouTube channel fiveawesomeguys, a video-blog collaboration with four other YouTube personalities, currently on a hiatus. As of 9 October 2011 (2011 -10-09), it had logged 1,688,157 channel views, 9,944,765 total upload views, and 50,505 subscribers.[35]

BlogTV

To mark the 18th birthday of his bandmate and fellow-YouTuber Charlie McDonnell, Day and McDonnell dyed their hair and then shaved it off, while live on BlogTV for a period of seven-and-a-half hours on 30 September 2008.[36] The effort raised nearly £5,000 for Cancer Research UK.[37]

CheekTV and BBC Switch

In April 2010, Day was interviewed on the CheekTV channel, where he was questioned about the dramatic increase in his fame and viewership since he began his Twilight readings.[38] Day also makes regular guest appearances on the BBC Switch YouTube channel,[39] contributing "words of wisdom"[40] and commenting on topics such as the new Doctor Who series[41] and Lady Gaga's "Telephone".[42]

Discography

Solo

Album Title Released
Parrot Stories 1 October 2009
117% Complete (EP) 1 March 2010
The World Is Mine (I Don't Know Anything) 28 June 2010
Soup Sessions: Acoustic[43] 1 November 2010

Chameleon Circuit

Album Title Released
Chameleon Circuit 1 June 2009
Still Got Legs[44] 18 July 2011

Sons of Admirals

Title Released
Here Comes My Baby (Single) 31 May 2010[45]
Here Comes My Baby (Single) (re-release) 25 October 2010

Compilations

Title Artist Album Released
Don't Look Back (Demo) Alex Day DFTBA Records, Volume 1 1 June 2009
Type 40 (Acoustic) Chameleon Circuit Trock On! 6 August 2009
Candy Canes Alex Day DFTBA Lullabies 24 January 2010

Producer discography

Title Type Released
Trock On! Compilation 6 August 2009

Footnotes

  1. ^ charlieissocoollike's channel on YouTube
  2. ^ littleradge's channel on YouTube
  3. ^ eddplant's channel on YouTube
  4. ^ michaelaranda's channel on YouTube
  5. ^ CowInParachute's channel on YouTube
  6. ^ italktosnakes's channel on YouTube

References

  1. ^ "Bungee Jumping for Beginners". YouTube. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110123092731/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhMpQv5BPEg. 
  2. ^ a b Z. (13 August 2008). "Time Lord Rock: Music from the Ashes of Gallifrey". GeekDad. http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/08/time-lord-rock/. 
  3. ^ "Article from Asylum.co.uk". http://www.asylum.co.uk/2011/07/27/liam-alex-brits-wal-mart-video/. Retrieved 2011-08-31. 
  4. ^ Wilkes, Neil (8 June 2009). "Introducing Trock: Songs about 'Doctor Who'". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s7/doctorwho/tubetalk/a158350/introducing-trock-songs-about-doctor-who.html. 
  5. ^ "Chameleon Circuit". DFTBA Records web site. http://dftba.com/shop/categories/Music/Chameleon-Circuit/. 
  6. ^ "Meet: Alex Day". Yow Yow! blog. 16 January 2010. http://itsyowyow.com/2010/01/16/meet-alex-day. 
  7. ^ "Chameleon Circuit (CD)". DFTBA Records web site. http://dftba.com/shop/products/Chameleon-Circuit-%5BCD%5D.html. 
  8. ^ Lewinski, John Scott (8 June 2009). "'Trock' Gaining Traction With Time Lord Fans". Underwire. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/06/trock-gaining-traction-with-time-lord-fans/. 
  9. ^ Newitz, Annalee (14 November 2008). "It's Not Filk – It's Trock!". io9. http://io9.com/5086730/its-not-filk-+-its-trock. 
  10. ^ "Trock On! (CD)". DFTBA Records web site. DFTBA Records. http://dftba.com/product/vd/Trock-On-CD. Retrieved 13 September 2011. 
  11. ^ "Chartjackers". BBC Switch. Archived from the original on 2011-04-12. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mwyfl. 
  12. ^ "ChartJackersProject". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2010-10-28. http://www.youtube.com/user/ChartJackersProject. Retrieved 11 May 2010. 
  13. ^ "Chartjackers go for number one". Children in Need web site. 9 September 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-02-19. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/news/news090909.shtml. 
  14. ^ "Entertainment Development Priorities". London: BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/network/genres/entertainment_detail.shtml. Retrieved 14 November 2010. 
  15. ^ Bowers, Mary (13 November 2009). "YouTube if you want to be a star". The Times (London). Archived from the original on 2011-02-19. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6914409.ece. 
  16. ^ Masterton, James (16 November 2009). "Week Ending 21 November 2009". Chart Watch UK. Yahoo! Music. Archived from the original on 2011-02-19. http://new.uk.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chartwatch/5358/week-ending-november-21st-2009/. 
  17. ^ McAlpine, Fraser (14 December 2009). "Thoughts About Rage Against The Machine vs X Factor". London: BBC Radio 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chartblog/2009/12/thoughts_about_rage_against_th.shtml. Retrieved 3 August 2010. 
  18. ^ "Subtle hints that Simon Cowell might not always be musically motivated". Popjustice. 16 November 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-02-19. http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4212. Retrieved 4 June 2010. 
  19. ^ "Chart For Week Up To 21/11/2009". Chart Stats web site. Archived from the original on 2011-02-19. http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?week=20091121. 
  20. ^ Lavelle, Fiona (20 November 2009). "York student attempt to storm charts". The Yorker. http://www.theyorker.co.uk/news/uninews/3739. 
  21. ^ "Fact Sheet". Alex Day web site. http://alexdaymusic.com/fact-sheet/. 
  22. ^ "Switch Live – Best of backstage". BBC Switch. 2009. http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/events/live2009/photos/backstage_photos.shtml. 
  23. ^ "UK Vloggers Unite! (YOUSTAGE WON!)". YouTube. 23 March 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY91ZixfzC4. [dead link]
  24. ^ McGarry, Gerard (7 March 2008). "Upstaged: The YouStage Vloggers". Unreality TV blog. http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/reality-tv/upstaged-the-youstage-vloggers. Retrieved 23 June 2010 – Includes group photo. 
  25. ^ "BBC Upstaged Interview with YouTube Star Ysabella Brave". CNN iReport. 24 March 2008. http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-5519. 
  26. ^ "Meet: Alex Day « Yow Yow!". Itsyowyow.com. 16 January 2010. http://itsyowyow.com/2010/01/16/meet-alex-day. Retrieved 29 April 2010. 
  27. ^ by: thelondonpaper (26 August 2009). "Put your money where your YouTube video is". thelondonpaper.com. http://www.thelondonpaper.com/going-out/whats-new/put-your-money-where-your-youtube-video-is. Retrieved 29 April 2010. [dead link]
  28. ^ "Vlog Tag Game". YouTube. 21 December 2007. Archived from the original on January 15, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080115060212/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzIMbjA5m8s. Retrieved 29 April 2010. 
  29. ^ "Technology | YouTubers given share of ad cash". BBC News. 31 January 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7217479.stm. Retrieved 29 April 2010. 
  30. ^ Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent (6 October 2008). "The rise and rise of the YouTube generation, and how adults can help | Technology". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/06/youtube.youngpeople. Retrieved 29 April 2010. 
  31. ^ Tom O'Meara Published: 12:01 am BST 15 Aug 2008 (15 August 2008). "Can your camcorder make you rich?". London: Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3358177/Can-your-camcorder-make-you-rich.html. Retrieved 29 April 2010. 
  32. ^ "Mrs. Nerimon". YouTube. Archived from the original on November 07, 2010. http://web.archive.org/web/20101107000548/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqkJurYRXzA. Retrieved 29 May 2010. 
  33. ^ "Nerimon Interview". YouTube. 11 December 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH8yWY4RRv0. Retrieved 29 April 2010. [dead link]
  34. ^ http://www.youtube.com/user/nerimon
  35. ^ "fiveawesomeguys channel". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/user/fiveawesomeguys. Retrieved 12 September 2011. 
  36. ^ Bath news, views & business listings from Bath's Community | This is Bath
  37. ^ "Charlie McDonnell is fundraising for Cancer Research UK". JustGiving. 24 March 2009. http://justgiving.com/blogtvbirthday. Retrieved 29 April 2010. 
  38. ^ "Nerimon: The Truth". YouTube. 19 April 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0_jhu_LeUU. Retrieved 29 April 2010. [dead link]
  39. ^ "Kanaal van BBCSwitch". YouTube. 22 November 2007. http://www.youtube.com/user/BBCSwitch. Retrieved 29 April 2010. 
  40. ^ "Words of Wisdom". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuz7__9T33A. Retrieved 29 April 2010. [dead link]
  41. ^ "Nerimon and the New Doctor". YouTube. 7 April 2010. Archived from the original on June 07, 2010. http://web.archive.org/web/20100607070750/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSsa9iR4MM0. Retrieved 29 April 2010. 
  42. ^ "Nerimon on Lady GaGa's Telephone". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um8fLBHHWNA. Retrieved 29 April 2010. [dead link]
  43. ^ "DFTBA Records-Soup Sessions Acoustic". http://dftba.com/product/ww/Soup-Sessions-Acoustic-CD. 
  44. ^ "iTunes - Music - Still Got Legs by Chameleon Circuit". iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/album/still-got-legs/id448674102?ign-mpt=uo%3D4. Retrieved 18 July 2011. 
  45. ^ "Here Comes My Baby by Sons Of Admirals". iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/here-comes-my-baby/id375683049. Retrieved 2 July 2010. 
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