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[edit] Genre

Who considers Andrew W. K. nu metal? Doesn't sound right to me. Tuf-Kat 01:35, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)

Give me a minute and i'll track this down. Meelar 01:38, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I'm sure I had a good reason for putting that in at the time, I just don't know what it was. Feel free to change it. Sheepishly yours, Meelar 01:43, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I don't know what to change it to, which is perhaps a sign that he isn't "generally considered" anything (i.e. there isn't any agreement). Allmusic calls him alternative metal, but that doesn't seem appropriate to me either. Tuf-Kat 02:43, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)
Kerrang! TV plays (one of) his videos quite a lot, and they're a nu-metal station. Then again, they play Eminem and Avril Lavigne... --Kiand 09:42, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[[ ANDREW WK IS NOT REAL]]

^OMG!?

[edit] Somone keeps deleting my pages

Someone keeps deleting my pages about the albums. They are very informational, and should be kept up.

[edit] excuse me?

Around 1994, andrew had a somewhat solo project titled Art of Ancient Boar. Not much is know about it.

Ignoring the capitalization/grammatical errors here [emphasis mine], there's no other reference to this on the 'net. Source? This sentence was addred by user Readytodie on June 27 2006, for reference. Shy 10:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Who Ruined the Article?

The article basicly has nothing now. Some moronic being went through and removed everything vital. The info is also way off. Andrew did now hit himself with a doorknob, it wasa piece of a cinder block. Alos, he did not hire session musicians for I Get Wet, the players on the album were his band from 2001 up until 2006 (they may have parted ways, no one is sure). Is it at all possible to change the article back to it's original state? Also, the title to To Live and Shave in L.A.'s album "God and Country Rally!" is not to be changed to "Ralley". The album is called" God and Country Rally!", no E.

--Readytodie 01:02, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ATHF

He recently had a cameo in the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force, playing himself. He had no speaking parts, just a part singing a song about partying, which has not been released on record but is available for download from his website. I just checked out his website and I can't find the song anywhere on there for download. Can anyone provide me a link? I'd like to download it. Thanks, -HumanZoom 07:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually it was released on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Colon the Soundtrack and is called "Party Party Party" --Orion213434 08:01, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recent "appearance" in Seattle

Note apparently sent by Andrew WK himself regarding a recent appearance in Seattle Bmathew 07:20, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

That letter was infact sent by Andrew.........it's still being investigated, no one can actually figure out what happened that night. All people are saying so far is that Andrew was not himself (literally or metaphoricly, no one knows yet) that night. --Readytodie 18:08, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

http://www.seattleweekly.com/music/blogs/reverb/2007/04/wheres_the_party.php

[edit] Birthplace Discrepency

The headline lists his birthplace as Los Angeles, the Bio says Stanford. Anyone able to clear that up?

According to Andrew's official biography on his official site, http://andrewwk.com/about.php, Andrew was born in Stanford. --Readytodie 18:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scientology

As I'm sure none of these claims regarding Scientology can be documented, perhaps someone can remove them and have them replaced with some real biographical information? JerryLewisOverdrive 05:02, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, i'm going to have to remove that information. It's all made up, none of it can be proved.--Readytodie 18:29, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Took out "In 1997 he was approached by the Church of Scientology for a roll as a rock star. The Church had long wanted to design and control a single person's career in order to promote the philosophy of Dianetics. After a breif meeting with Tom Cruise, the contract was signed and Andrew's life was in the hands of Scientology. The Church began by indoctrinating Andrew in the ways of Scientology and reshaping his personality to fit the ideals they wished express with his music. After months of isolation, Andrew re-emerged a new man. Once the transformation was complete, he began to learn the music he was to be recording for his first album that had been written by Tom Cruise." 66.245.8.125 00:31, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recent Appearances

I saw someone put that fans may have doctored his recent apperance photos in order to make him have shorter hair. I was there at the concert and I saw and spoke to him. Maybe short hair is the wrong word (it wasnt like a buzzcut, but it was much shorter than before), but his hair was definitely shorter than before.

On July 31st he had short hair, on August 4th and 7th he had long hair. They were both the same person, so my conclusion is that he uses hair extensions. This is not an unusual occurrence in his field.

He might've just had it under his hat.

nope, i spoke to him personally july 28, i visited with him for quite some time, and he did not have the hair under his hat. --Readytodie 04:22, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


Certainly, looking at that Boardrum video, his hair definitely appears short. Wwwhatsup (talk) 08:41, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Multiple Andrews

I guess the evidence is in, He cut his hair in 2005 and wears hairpieces. This whole section could be cut down to one sentence. Wwwhatsup 10:18, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I believe the entire Steev Mike and Multiple Andrew sections could be boiled down to a coule of sentences. Any objections? Wwwhatsup (talk) 09:17, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

No objection; in fact, I agree. Nach0king (talk) 11:36, 26 December 2007 (UTC)


I am removing the entire Steev Mike & Multiple Andrews section to here. It's speculation, mostly uncited and unnecessary. Wwwhatsup (talk) 07:31, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

=="Steev Mike"==
Rumors claim that "Andrew W.K." is an actor, a "front man" hired to play the role and perform the A.W.K. music and that before there was an "Andrew W.K.," the press was holding interviews with a "Steev Mike," whose image and sound are the same as "Andrew W.K."
The first appearance of "Steev Mike" was inside the pages of the UK magazine "Dazed & Confused." An issue from early 2000 allegedly featured a full-page story on "Steev Mike," but it's nearly impossible to find this back issue, although it's been confirmed that the magazine and article do exist.
Steev Mike was later listed as "Executive Producer" on Andrew's album "I Get Wet". Steev's name was not listed, however, on Andrew's second album, "The Wolf". Three years later, Steev Mike was listed again on Andrew's DVD "Who Knows", and on Andrew's third album, "Close Calls With Brick Walls", as "Executive Producer".
Andrew himself has said little about the matter, urging his fans at times to simply "ignore lies". He has not claimed that he is Steev Mike, but he has not claimed that Steev Mike is another person. He did however confirm that "Steev Mike is a real person".
In 2005, Web sites directly linked with Andrew W.K. appeared to have been hacked, containing strange pictures and lines of code related to Steev Mike. These pages are now all off-line, but archived versions can be found at http://www.awk.dudeguy.com. Analysis of the code (and other information regarding Steev Mike) can be found at the fansite http://awilkeskrier.homestead.com/.
Many people have been said to be Steev Mike, most people accusing Andrew himself as being part of a conspiracy to make people think he's fake, but also James "Twig" Harper of the group Nautical Almanac, Chicago musician Little Howlin' Wolf, and even Andrew W.K.'s father, James E. Krier have also been suspects.
In March 2006, an alleged 1992 Bulb Records 7" 45 recorded under the name Steev Mike was discovered. The record was spotted on eBay, and the auction stated the records (the seller had 25) were found at a garage sale in Ann Arbor (Where Bulb Records was founded). The auction was for only one, but the buyer had the option to buy more. Several weeks later, a UK record shop, Volcanic Tongue, was selling copies of the record in their online store. The catalog did not have a lot of copies in stock, and soon after the page was found, the site was out of the records, and the page was later taken down. The tracks on the record were found to be the same as Bulb band Couch's first EP, except for the last track, which was Couch's track Old Man instead of the track (Is This) Time Travel Man, the track which was listed. This could be a possible mistake by bootleggers. On the back of the Steev Mike record, Andrew W.K.'s father, James E. Krier, is listed. When recently asked about this record, it has been supposedly noted as a "bootleg" or "phony" by Couch founding member James Marlon Magas. In one letter to a fan, he was quoted as saying "I guess people wanna sell records!". It is unknown at this point in time who is behind the record, but there are suspects.


===Multiple Andrews?===
Andrew participated as drummer 57 the Boredoms 77 Boadrum performance which occurred on July 7th, 2007 at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, New York. His look was drastically different, as he cut his hair short, had no facial hair, and wore very different clothing from his usual attire. [1] However, pictures from Andrew's official site conflict with the fan pictures, as the pictures from Andrew's official site show him with medium, shoulder-length hair. It is suspected that the fan pictures have been edited or doctored to remove some of Andrew's hair. [2]
In 2005, The Fader magazine featured a full-page article on Andrew W.K. which showed a radically different looking individual, with close cropped hair and different clothing, claiming to be Andrew W.K. This set off a subsequent wave of rumors that there were multiple individuals going under the "Andrew W.K." name. [3] The paranoia culminated during Andrew's "High-Way Party Cruiser Tour", during which many audience members were enraged when they claimed "someone else" was posing as Andrew W.K. and playing shows in his place. [4] It was never confirmed whether there were A.W.K. doppelgangers, or whether it was a case of "double mistaken identity". Andrew has used the words "self impersonation" in recent interviews, causing more speculation. Some fans have even believed that there was a "switch" in 2005, and a "new actor" began playing the role of Andrew W.K. A wave of online photo comparisons only caused further confusion. Andrew himself has not confirmed nor denied any of the related rumors.
On July 28, 2007, Andrew played a solo piano concert in Lansing, Michigan. At the concert, he had short hair covered with a baseball cap. Also, he wore orange sunglasses throughout the entire set.
On August 4, 2007, Andrew performed at Highline ballroom in New York City. He was in his normal attire, and had his full length hair, causing some to wonder whether Andrew does really have short hair, or if he's been wearing some kind of wig or hairpiece.
At All Tomorrow's Parties ATP vs the Fans in May 2007, Andrew W. K. appeared as the bass player for Current 93. The discovery provoked a petition to plea for a solo performance from Andrew, but sadly, no such event transpired. He was seen in typical apparel, with a full head of long, flowing hair.
Andrew, having produced the new Sightings album "Through The Panama", performed a keyboard set at their album release party at NYC's Cake Shop on November 9, 2007. [1][2]

His hair was long and appeared natural.

Despite all of the claims that Andrew has "flowing" and "natural" long hair, a person appearing as "Andrew" claimed in a 2007 interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette that he has worn a wig. This interview can be found at http://playlist.citr.ca/podcasting/audio/20070406-153435-to-20070406-164433.mp3


[edit] Steev Mike, "multiple Andrews cont."

At one time this article was mostly about the internet mystery surrounding the identity of Andrew W. K., now there is no mention of it at all. Being as this was a long & attested to phenomenon I believe there should be some mention of it in the article, at least what can be sourced elsewhere. Maybe a few sentences like suggested in the "multiple Andrews" section in this discussion, but maybe a link to (what is now a simple redirect) a "Steev Mike" article, with "Main article: Steev Mike" or something along those lines. I believe this was too prevalent of a "conspiracy theory" to just be omitted from wikipedia entirely. Nagelfar (talk) 19:05, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I think it is just a bunch of rumor and speculation and is thus not encyclopedic. What is evident is that AWK himself is quite happy to ferment such speculation. Wwwhatsup (talk) 11:05, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Although I do agree with you, Wwwhatsup (Andrew has been doing everything in his power to fuel the SM rumor), alot of the SM article was truth, stemming from my many hours of research on the subject. If that article wa to be re-instated, I suggest that the unconfirmed information be removed, and only the truth be left in. It seems everytime I tried to write the REAL SM story, someone else would go in and delete the truth that I had written. So maybe the article should not be put back. But then again, the SM part of A.W.K.'s history is vital, and I believe there should be atleast SOME mention of Steev Mike in this article. Just my 2 cents. --Readytodie (talk) 15:51, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Wwwhatsup, just because you "think" something, that does not give you the right to make such sweeping changes to an article, at least not without discussion. In the future, please discuss it on the article's talk page and get some feedback on your proposed changes. They might actually be for the worse! If you really wish to see that section deleted, make a new section for the proposed change here on the talk page.
(above comment is unsigned) Naturally what edits I make are governed by what I think. In this case I stated my opinions and asked for responses here. There appeared to be consensus. Plus there was a clean-up tag added by another editor to the page. I discussed it with that editor & waited a month. I then did a rewrite of the whole article which was a sprawling mess written in overly-promotional tone. The multiple Andrew thing appeared to be spawned by his haircut and wig-wearing, which I duly noted near the top. As far as Steev Mike goes, there is no cited source that clearly states the truth about his identity, and I couldn't see it's relevance. So, possibly there was an early record under another name, so what? Rumor and speculation is unencyclopedic, particularly when extended to long rambling paragraphs. That's why I didn't bother to rewrite it. I copied it here so that another editor would have a ready source should the wish to.
Re-including it hardly adds value to the article but I'm not going to get into an edit war over it. I've done my best to improve the article, and I'm confident that ultimately the material as it stands will be excised. I suggest that, if you care about the issue, you replace the current the copy with a succinct summation of the controversy, with good citations. Wwwhatsup (talk) 06:35, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Whoknows.jpeg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:42, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Y Done. Wwwhatsup (talk) 11:01, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cricket

An anonymous editor just added Andrew is also a very competant cricketer and has played in various celebraity fundraising cricket matches. (4/10 for spelling :)) Do we have a citation? I guess this would need a new section 'Other activities'? Wwwhatsup (talk) 13:00, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

As far as my A.W.K. knowledge goes, he has never been a cricket player. Although I could ask him, I feel that it is not needed, and i'm pretty sure he's not a cricket player --Readytodie (talk) 15:51, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TV and Film Appearances

Some mention should be made of his appearance in Melissa Cross's DVD - Zen and the Art of Screaming.User:24.148.118.195 10:22, February 16, 2008

Find a citation and put it in. Wwwhatsup (talk) 20:15, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I added it, someone should check to see if I formatted it right though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.148.118.195 (talk) 17:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

That's fine. Well done. Wwwhatsup (talk) 23:33, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hair

A bunch of pix in today's Brooklyn Vegan might indicate that Andrew is growing his hair out. Wwwhatsup (talk) 06:01, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] "Steev Mike Outed"

  • text below removed from main article where it was posted anonymously - I still believe this and "multiple andrews' should be boiled down to a brief paragraph. Wwwhatsup (talk) 04:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Recently, "Steev Mike" has been outed as Andrew himself by Andrew's brother, professional golfer Patrick Wilkes-Krier, who writes:

Hello, this is Andrews brother, Patrick Wilkes-Krier (as known me from professional golf) and I have read over some posts people had posted and that is all a load of junk! Do not believe it! However I have some valuable information..the truth! Because me and Andrew talked over this and I promised to never tell this, but I am favoring you, the fans! The plan was for Andrew to cut in a new style, yes, he has indeed got a haircut! But the pictures you see on the homepage were taken back in February some time. So that was a working way to grab attention which was successful. Then to get people (hackers) to post lies about how this whole messy situation started (which wa spart of the plan and were nothing but lies to grab attention and create confusion to promote the album) and then for Andrews made up character Kristine Williams to come clean. However, that was another part of the lies. So the truth you wonder? Well the plan was for me, Patrick Wilkes-Krier, to be the guy behind it all. To be behind the lies, hackers and Steev Mike person. Now, Steev Mike you wonder is he 'real' or 'made up', simple answer is he is REAL. Steve Mike was a friend of mine, but Andrew did not get along with him and in the future things were tense between them as they picked arguements out and always disagreed with each other. But it came to the point were Steve moved to Orlando. And to mine and Steve's shock, Andrew said "thank you, I have just created a character which can bring excitement, unhappyness and confusion as a part of a role to help boost my ego". Andrew walked off with a smile that day (August 9th 2000). And until now, thats what Andrew has been hiding. It is not something bad, and as he said he wanted to boost his ego with this Steev Mike thing, I guess its working. But Andrew promised to never tell the truth about Steev Mike to anyone else because he was afraid someone would steal his idea and get recognition for a publicity stunt never done before. Andrew will hate me for this, but we've had our ups and downs, and at this time we are on the down side. However, he can hate me but it is for everyones own good because Andrew doesnt realise it hurts you people, but I think he now would realise it and once he released his new album (Child Of Infinitive Fortune) he would come clean. And about Steev Mike, the real spelling is STEVE, he thought it looked better and was different he told me. Thank you for your time, Patrick Wilkes-Krier