Mandy Kane
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Mandy Kane is a Melbourne rock musician. From 2003, he has had three hits in the Australian Top 40.
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Early career
He 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 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."
Recording career
Warner Music flew him out to record his demos in Los Angeles with Chris Vrenna who had also worked with Nine Inch Nails. However, he and the label both thought that the finished work had lost something in translation from the demos. While keeping some of the work, they commissioned Tony Espie who had worked with the Avalanches and Christine Anu to finish off the album at the Exchange in London. The album Tragic Daydreams will be released on April 5 2004.
Warner has released a series of singles to build up demand for the album. His first single was a song called Stab which is a statement against teen suicide and made the Australian top twenty singles in the second half of 2003. Billy Bones was the second single reaching number 36 in the 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. It is an acoustic song. His cover version of "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran is on the soundtrack for Australian movie "One Perfect Day".
Mandy Kane has also performed a number of important gigs. 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.
Discography
- Tragic Daydreams (2004)
External links
- Mandy Kane biography (http://www.mandykane.com/bio.asp/)
- Warner Music Australia web site (http://www.warnermusic.com.au/artists/press.asp?pressid=448/)