Chris Knox

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Chris Knox in the music video for Not Given Lightly
Chris Knox in the music video for Not Given Lightly

Chris Knox (born September 2, 1952) is a New Zealand rock and roll musician and cartoonist who emerged during the punk rock era with his bands The Enemy and Toy Love. After Toy Love disbanded in the early 1980s, he formed the group Tall Dwarfs with guitarist Alec Bathgate, much loved for their honest, unpolished sound and intense live shows. His 4-track machine was used to record most of the early Flying Nun singles.

He has also released a number of solo, self-produced albums which feature his trusty Casiotone. Chris Knox has also released an album under the pseudonym 'Friend'.

At the 2001 New Zealand Music Awards Knox's song "Not Given Lightly" (1990) was announced as New Zealand's thirteenth best song of all time as voted by APRA members.[1] A love song written for his wife Barbara, this track never scaled commercial heights though it has belately generated some income for the songwriter through its use in TV advertising.

Live appearances throughout the years all over the country, including an annual slot in Wellington's infamous Bar Bodega, are planned for audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Knox currently resides in Auckland, where he continues to make music and earn a living as a newspaper columnist and film reviewer (Real Groove). His cartoon strip goes under the name Max Media. He is also an occasional television film reviewer, and was recently host of a Television New Zealand series of classic movies, entitled The Vault.

Knox launched his own label 'A Major Records' in 2006 to release his album Chris Knox and the Nothing.

Knox's "It's Love" has been used in a commercial for Heineken Premium Light Beer.


[edit] Discography

  • Songs for Cleaning Guppies (1981)
  • Guppiplus (1987)
  • Seizure (1988)
  • Croaker (1991)
  • Polyfoto, Duck-Shaped Pain and Gum (one CD, 1993)
  • Meat (compilation of tracks from Seizure and Croaker, 1993)
  • Songs Of You And Me (1995)
  • Yes!! (1997)
  • Almost (bonus CD to go with Yes!!, 1999)
  • Beat (2000)
  • Inaccuracies & Omissions (as Friend, 2002)
  • Chris Knox And The Nothing (as Chris Knox and The Nothing, 2005)
  • A Warm Gun (as The Nothing, 2008)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Chris Knox, "Not Given Lightly", The Listener 194(3352) [7-13 August 2004].


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