The Knievel Dead

Crowd: Walking into The Velvet Underground, I once again was faced with the fact that the goth scene is dead. The same 10 people near the stage and some lazy observers at the bar.. At least they were clapping after each song.
Style: Good old Gothic Rock. Sometimes I could hear Joy Division, sometimes the guitars were drifting off into shoegaze territory. Classy and well-composed.
Technicalities: No problems were detected.
Memorable Song/Moment: The Knievel Dead provided the crowd with a great musical experience overall.
Sex Appeal/Image: Very post-punk. All-black outfits, dress shirts and skinny ties.
Comments: I am very disappointed that more NXNE-goers didn’t check this band out. You guys missed out.
- Scene Magazine - Raya Morrison

Crowd: Walking into The Velvet Underground, I once again was faced with the fact that the goth scene is dead. The same 10 people near the stage and some lazy observers at the bar.. At least they were clapping after each song.
Style: Good old Gothic Rock. Sometimes I could hear Joy Division, sometimes the guitars were drifting off into shoegaze territory. Classy and well-composed.
Technicalities: No problems were detected.
Memorable Song/Moment: The Knievel Dead provided the crowd with a great musical experience overall.
Sex Appeal/Image: Very post-punk. All-black outfits, dress shirts and skinny ties.
Comments: I am very disappointed that more NXNE-goers didn’t check this band out. You guys missed out.
- Scene Magazine - Raya Morrison

“The Knievel Dead’s website offers us the options of News, Audio, Video, Images, Live and Links. But not, alas, anything called Biog or About. I eventually supplied the following info on their Bandcamp page: “London based via the North East singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist in the form of The Knievel Dead produces a blend of haunted malaise and harmonious alternative sound waves. Conceived after the break down of The Night Terrors whose demise spurred on the initiation to produce the début album And We Sleep”. Said album was in fact launched this Saturday with a gig at the Dublin Castle in London, where former Night Terrors members Odel and Joe were joined by messrs Jeremy Knievel and Old Greg (possibly not their given names.) Apart from that, web-wise at least, their album release seems to be one of the best-kept secrets on the planet. Which is a shame because it’s damn good.” - Tom Robinson BBC Radio 6music

“Listening to the first notes of the album, one could say that the Knievel Dead is surely a tribe of hairy bikers riding their Harleys down an open highway eating a ham sandwich…

Looking more closely one learns with amazement that behind all this there is only one man - young 30yr old Londoner Odel who has recorded almost the entirety of the project from his home!

OK with respect, I carefully plunge into the 9 tracks that make up “And we sleep”, scheduled for release on August 25 (release party in full at Camden’s Dublin Castle on that same day)…

Some good influences emerge, musically from the cold side of Joy Division to the melodic tunes of the Smiths, vocally ranging from Jim Morrison to Jeff Buckley, the intonations tending to vary gradually over the songs…

Overall “And we sleep” would be the ideal soundtrack to an apocalyptic film where the hero would pass their time running to try and escape from a certain and programmed death, a mixture of hope and anxiety.

So a successful effort from Odel, the multi-instrumentalist who manages to entice us into his world and his room… that certainly is haunted…” - GBH Music

“Listening to the first notes of the album, one could say that the Knievel Dead is surely a tribe of hairy bikers riding their Harleys down an open highway eating a ham sandwich…

Looking more closely one learns with amazement that behind all this there is only one man - young 30yr old Londoner Odel who has recorded almost the entirety of the project from his home!

OK with respect, I carefully plunge into the 9 tracks that make up “And we sleep”, scheduled for release on August 25 (release party in full at Camden’s Dublin Castle on that same day)…

Some good influences emerge, musically from the cold side of Joy Division to the melodic tunes of the Smiths, vocally ranging from Jim Morrison to Jeff Buckley, the intonations tending to vary gradually over the songs…

Overall “And we sleep” would be the ideal soundtrack to an apocalyptic film where the hero would pass their time running to try and escape from a certain and programmed death, a mixture of hope and anxiety.

So a successful effort from Odel, the multi-instrumentalist who manages to entice us into his world and his room… that certainly is haunted…” - GBH Music