Eddie Argos

Eddie Argos (born Kevin Macklin; 25 October 1979) is the lead singer of English rock band Art Brut, and writer of comics.

Born in Weymouth, England, Argos later moved to Poole, Dorset as a young child, and has subsequently written about the Kemp-Welch School there (now St Aldhelm's Academy), in the song "Martin Kemp-Welch Five-A-Side Football Rules!" from the album Brilliant! Tragic!.

Argos is the lead singer of the rock band Art Brut, and sometimes plays the bass guitar in Keith TOTP. Argos is also the lead singer of the project Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now!, in which he and multi-instrumentalist Dyan Valdes of The Blood Arm write musical responses to pop songs. Their album "Fixin' the Charts, Volume 1" was recorded in Joshua Tree in summer 2008. In June 2011, Eddie appeared as guest vocalist on Akira The Don's "Living in the Future" single. In 2018 Argos collaborated with Berlin-based band Gurr on Christmas songs for a "Christmas Business" EP.

In 2012, Argos wrote an article for DIY magazine as to why he should be the UK's 2013 entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

In 2021, Argos announced a side project called Haus Band. Their first single, a cover of Bob Dylan's "She Belongs to Me", was released to celebrate Dylan's birthday.

As well as his musical output, Argos is also an enthusiastic painter.

Argos explained his love of painting to Skyscraper Magazine: "I really enjoy painting. I love painting great big thick black lines of acrylic paint on canvas. I don't paint very complicated things, just simple images and words really. Nothing ever comes out the way I intend it to, probably because of my Dyspraxia, so I'm always surprised at how they turn out".

Argos writes an occasional column about comic books for PLAYBACK:stl called "Pow! To The People". He has also contributed a cover quote to the collected edition of Jamie McKelvie's 'Phonogram: The Singles Club' graphic novel.