Discography | Bio | Fact Sheet | Quote Sheet

Name:
Alex Day

Age:
21

Lives:
Essex, UK

Plays:
Guitar and ukulele, some bass, keyboard and drums

Facts:
-Nearly seventeen million views on YouTube

-One hundred and fifty thousand regular subscribers who get notified of new updates

-Invited to Amsterdam to host a workshop on vlogging with the European Cultural Foundation

-Launched album with his band Chameleon Circuit, selling a thousand copies in the first week of release

-Music video for the first single of his album got 300,000 views (Holding On)

-Launched this website on December 1st, 2009 – got 50,000 hits in the first live week

-Used YouTube fanbase to create and release a song into the charts called “I’ve Got Nothing”; it peaked at #36 in the UK Singles Chart and landed at #1 on the UK Indie Chart, selling twenty thousand copies worldwide in its first week

-Presenter of a ten-week BBC 2 show ‘Chartjackers’; most-watched episode had half a million viewers

-Co-hosted an online podcast called Vaguely Live Radio, which averaged ten thousand listeners per episode

-Entered and won a BBC Three reality show called Upstaged with a team of YouTubers, splitting £8,000 of the £10,000 prize between them and using the other £2,000 to hold a YouTube festival for their subscribers

-Broke the house record for attendance at Gizzi’s Coffee in New York

-Played gigs in Southampton, Birmingham, London, Glasgow, New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Seattle

-Opened BBC Switch Live at the Hammersmith Apollo

-Featured in the Guardian, thelondonpaper, BBC News, The Times and The Evening Standard, and on Channel 4 News

-Influenced by Green Day, McFly and The Beatles