Douglas McCarthy

Douglas John McCarthy (born 1 September 1966) is the vocalist of the English EBM band Nitzer Ebb.

Doug McCarthy
Background information
Born (1966-09-01) 1 September 1966
Barking, East London, England
Occupation(s)Vocalist of Nitzer Ebb
Associated actsNitzer Ebb
Fixmer/McCarthy
Recoil
Motor
Black Line

McCarthy writes and performs with the band. He has appeared on multiple recordings by Recoil and has released material in collaboration with DJ Terence Fixmer as Fixmer/McCarthy.[1][2] He contributed vocals to tracks by Die Krupps, Motor, KLOQ (band), Client, and more recently Kenneth James Gibson's Reverse Commuter project.[3]

After Nitzer Ebb originally split, McCarthy left the music business — save for his work with Recoil — and focused on film studies and design in Cambridge. He moved to London in 2000 to work in the advertising field.[4]

Solo works

McCarthy's first solo album was originally titled Life Is Sucking The Life Out Of Me. The album was written, recorded, and mixed at Easier with songwriter/musician/producer Stephen Papke and British House DJ/producer Mark "Blakkat" Bell. All songs were co-written by McCarthy, Papke and Bell.

Currently performing as Douglas J. McCarthy, his first solo album, Kill Your Friends, was released in November 2012 on Los Angeles-based label Pylon Records.[5] McCarthy collaborated with Headman and producer Scott Fraser on the Noise EP, and with Cyrus Rex on the DJMREX EP.[6]

gollark: The updated ones say similar things.
gollark: The amount of privacy things I would have to deal with if I didn't just lyriclyishly ignore them might make the whole stats thing impractical.
gollark: Weird.
gollark: https://discord.com/developers/docs/policy
gollark: That is the developer policy bit.

See also

References
  1. Adair, Mike (September 2004). "Fixmer/McCarthy - 'Between the Devil…'". Exclaim!. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  2. Theakston, Rob. "'Between the Devil' - Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  3. Admin Dubspot interviews Kenneth James Gibson, dubspot.com, Retrieved 7 July, 2015
  4. Fixmer/McCarthy official biography
  5. Turner, Luke (July 2, 2013). "Reviews: Douglas J. McCarthy - 'Kill Your Friends'". The Quietus. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  6. "Listen: Headman VS Douglas J McCarthy". The Quietus. July 2, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
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