Alex Day
Encyclopedia
Alex Richard George Day (born 8 April 1989) is a musician and YouTube
r from Essex
, England
. 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.
, an alternative
trock band from England. Other band members include Charlie McDonnell
, Liam Dryden, Ed Blann, and Michael Aranda. Chris "Ginger Chris" Beattie is a former member of the band, having left the band for personal reasons. The band's music is inspired by the sci-fi
television series Doctor Who
. Chameleon Circuit's self-titled album was released on 1 June 2009 by DFTBA Records.
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."
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."
Discussing the Trock music scene, one reviewer said: "This phenomenon is so huge, so world-changing, that it has its own internet forum". "Trock On!", a compilation of Trock music including performances by Chameleon Circuit and seventeen other groups, was released in August 2009.
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.
reality show Chartjackers in the autumn of 2009. 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, with the proceeds going to the BBC Children in Need
charity. 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". 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
, Yahoo! Music
's James Masterton
, BBC Radio 1
's Chart Blog and Popjustice
. The song peaked at Number 36 in the UK Singles Chart and raised almost £10,000 for Children in Need. 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
.
talent show Upstaged
during March 2008.
Fan Fiction
.
Owing to the popularity of his first channel, Day attended the October 2007 YouTube-Australia launch party in Sydney. In December 2007, Day invented the "Vlog Tag game" which, according to a BBC News article, "swept YouTube" and by January 2008, Nerimon had "a 10,000 strong gang of followers." In October 2008, The Guardian
described Day as "one of Britain's most popular YouTubers." The Daily Telegraph
described Day as "one of the more successful [YouTube] partners in the UK." 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 . The song was written in a bet by fellow YouTuber, Kristina Horner, who later became Day's girlfriend.
His channel, 'Nerimon', currently has roughly 400,000 subscribers.
for a period of seven-and-a-half hours on 30 September 2008. The effort raised nearly £5,000 for Cancer Research UK
.
YouTube channel, contributing "words of wisdom" and commenting on topics such as the new Doctor Who series and Lady Gaga's
"Telephone
".
Their first podcast was released on October 17th, 2007. Their podcasts were a rather regular occurrence until around the middle of 2009. Then they decided not to do it anymore. Then, on October 3rd, 2011, they started doing the podcast again. Now (as of end of November) they are on their third series.
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
r from Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. He has performed and recorded solo and as a member of the groups Chartjackers
Chartjackers
Chartjackers is a British documentary series, produced by Hat Trick Productions and commissioned by BBC Switch. It premièred in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2009 on BBC Two...
, Youstage, Chameleon Circuit
Chameleon Circuit (band)
Chameleon Circuit is a band known for creating music inspired by the British television series Doctor Who. Composed of popular UK YouTube vloggers and Doctor Who fans, the band released their self-titled debut album on 1 June 2009....
and the now dissolved Sons of Admirals. He appears on his popular YouTube channel Nerimon.
Chameleon Circuit
Day is a founder of the band Chameleon CircuitChameleon Circuit (band)
Chameleon Circuit is a band known for creating music inspired by the British television series Doctor Who. Composed of popular UK YouTube vloggers and Doctor Who fans, the band released their self-titled debut album on 1 June 2009....
, an alternative
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
trock band from England. Other band members include Charlie McDonnell
Charlie McDonnell
Charles Joseph "Charlie" McDonnell is a British vlogger and musician from Bath, Somerset, England. , his YouTube channel, charlieissocoollike, is the most subscribed in the UK...
, Liam Dryden, Ed Blann, and Michael Aranda. Chris "Ginger Chris" Beattie is a former member of the band, having left the band for personal reasons. The band's music is inspired by the sci-fi
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
television series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
. Chameleon Circuit's self-titled album was released on 1 June 2009 by DFTBA Records.
After attributing the invention of Trock to Day's YouTube alias "Nerimon", a reviewer in Wired News
Wired News
Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Wired News was owned by Lycos not long after the split, until Condé Nast purchased Wired News on July 11, 2006...
described its rapidly growing popularity: "Following the community model of Wrock, Time Lord Rock invites interested whovians
Doctor Who fandom
The long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who has developed a large fan base over the years.Doctor Who fans are sometimes referred to as Whovians, most often by the American press. The usage was more common among fans in the United States during the 1980s, when the Doctor...
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."
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."
Discussing the Trock music scene, one reviewer said: "This phenomenon is so huge, so world-changing, that it has its own internet forum". "Trock On!", a compilation of Trock music including performances by Chameleon Circuit and seventeen other groups, was released in August 2009.
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.
Chartjackers
Day was a featured artist on the BBC TwoBBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
reality show Chartjackers in the autumn of 2009. 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, with the proceeds going to the BBC Children in Need
Children in Need
Children in Need is an annual British charity appeal organised by the BBC. Since 1980 it has raised over £500 million. The highlight of the Children in Need appeal is an annual telethon, held in November. A teddy bear named "Pudsey Bear" fronts the campaign, while Terry Wogan is a long...
charity. 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". The completed single, entitled "I've Got Nothing
I've Got Nothing
"I've Got Nothing" is a song released by the participants of the BBC Two documentary series Chartjackers and is credited as such. The track was produced by university student Marc Dowding and its music video was filmed by YouTube user Charlie McDonnell. It was released by the record label Swinging...
", was sung by vocalists Adam Nichols and Miranda Chartrand
Miranda Chartrand
Miranda Chartrand is a Canadian singer who is currently based in London. Born and raised in Guelph, Ontario, Chartrand studied at the John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute and played on their open girls' rugby team, before moving to the United Kingdom in 2009 to work as an au pair...
, and was released worldwide through the iTunes Store
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...
on 9 November 2009. It was reviewed, with varying degrees of approval, by various media outlets, including The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, Yahoo! Music
Yahoo! Music
Yahoo! Music, owned by Yahoo!, is the provider of a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming...
's James Masterton
James Masterton
James Masterton is a headline columnist for the music website Yahoo! Launch. He writes a weekly column analysing new entries in the UK Singles Chart...
, BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
's Chart Blog and Popjustice
Popjustice
Popjustice is a music website founded in 2000 and is the work of UK freelance music journalist Peter Robinson, who has worked for NME, The Guardian, Attitude and many others....
. The song peaked at Number 36 in the UK Singles Chart and raised almost £10,000 for Children in Need. Day also appeared with the Chartjackers at the Hammersmith Apollo
Hammersmith Apollo
Hammersmith Apollo is a major entertainment venue located in Hammersmith, London. Designed by Robert Cromie in Art Deco style, it opened in 1932 as the Gaumont Palace cinema, being re-named the Hammersmith Odeon in 1962...
for the BBC Switch
BBC Switch
BBC Switch was the brand for BBC content aimed at UK teenagers. The brand launched on Saturday 20 October 2007 on BBC Two And ceased broadcasting on Saturday 17 December 2010...
Live 2009 show, along with artists such as Black Eyed Peas, N-Dubz
N-Dubz
N-Dubz are a British hip hop group from Camden Town, London. The group consists of members Dappy, Tulisa Contostavlos and Fazer.N-Dubz were previously signed to Polydor Records before joining All Around the World Records...
, and Pixie Lott
Pixie Lott
Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott is an English singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. Her debut single "Mama Do" was released in June 2009 and went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart. Her second single "Boys and Girls", also topped the UK charts in September 2009. Her debut album Turn It...
.
Upstaged
Day was a member of Youstage, an ad-hoc group of YouTube vloggers who competed successfully on the BBC ThreeBBC Three
BBC Three is a television network from the BBC broadcasting via digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and satellite platforms. The channel's target audience includes those in the 16-34 year old age group, and has the purpose of providing "innovative" content to younger audiences, focusing on new talent...
talent show Upstaged
Upstaged
Upstaged was a 2008 multi-platform talent show aired on the Internet, BBC Red Button and BBC Three.Upstaged contenders were voted into two glass-fronted studios in Millennium Square, Bristol, where they had to entertain for six hours at a time, with only a few breaks allowed.During the heats, acts...
during March 2008.
Nerimon
Day created his first YouTube channel, Nerimon, in August 2006. Originally, Nerimon was a character Day created when he was younger and writing DigimonDigimon
, short for , is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga and video games. The franchise's eponymous creatures are monsters of various forms living in a "Digital World", a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communication networks.-Conception and...
Fan Fiction
Fan fiction
Fan fiction is a broadly-defined term for fan labor regarding stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator...
.
Owing to the popularity of his first channel, Day attended the October 2007 YouTube-Australia launch party in Sydney. In December 2007, Day invented the "Vlog Tag game" which, according to a BBC News article, "swept YouTube" and by January 2008, Nerimon had "a 10,000 strong gang of followers." In October 2008, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
described Day as "one of Britain's most popular YouTubers." The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
described Day as "one of the more successful [YouTube] partners in the UK." 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 . The song was written in a bet by fellow YouTuber, Kristina Horner, who later became Day's girlfriend.
His channel, 'Nerimon', currently has roughly 400,000 subscribers.
fiveawesomeguys
Day was part of the YouTube channel fiveawesomeguys, a video-blog collaboration with four other YouTube personalities, currently on a hiatus. , it had logged 1,688,157 channel views, 9,944,765 total upload views, and 50,505 subscribers.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 BlogTVBlogTV
blogTV is an online video service. blogTV began in June 2004, in Israel, and was a pioneer in the webcasting industry. Its goals were to supply anyone and everyone, with internet access, a way to express their talents & ideas to the world and to socially network with people face to face. In 2006...
for a period of seven-and-a-half hours on 30 September 2008. The effort raised nearly £5,000 for Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK is a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom, formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Its aim is to reduce the number of deaths from cancer. As the world's largest independent cancer...
.
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. Day also makes regular guest appearances on the BBC SwitchBBC Switch
BBC Switch was the brand for BBC content aimed at UK teenagers. The brand launched on Saturday 20 October 2007 on BBC Two And ceased broadcasting on Saturday 17 December 2010...
YouTube channel, contributing "words of wisdom" and commenting on topics such as the new Doctor Who series and Lady Gaga's
Lady GaGa
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...
"Telephone
Telephone (song)
"Telephone" is a song written and performed by Lady Gaga. It was released from her third extended play and second major release The Fame Monster . The song, featuring American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles, was written by Gaga and Rodney Jerkins...
".
Podcast
Alex also does a comedy podcast with his friend, Jimmy Hill (also a Youtuber), on http://vaguelyliveradio.podbean.com/.Their first podcast was released on October 17th, 2007. Their podcasts were a rather regular occurrence until around the middle of 2009. Then they decided not to do it anymore. Then, on October 3rd, 2011, they started doing the podcast again. Now (as of end of November) they are on their third series.
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 | 1 November 2010 |
| Forever Yours (Single) | 10 November 2011 |
Chameleon Circuit
| Album Title | Released |
|---|---|
| Chameleon Circuit | 3 June 2009 |
| Still Got Legs | 12 July 2011 |
Sons of Admirals
| Title | Released |
|---|---|
| Here Comes My Baby (Single) | 31 May 2010 |
| 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 |