My Midnight Creeps (initiated 2003 in Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian rock band fronted by deceased Madrugada-guitarist

Robert Burås Robert Solli Burås (12 August 1975 – 12 July 2007) was guitarist and songwriter in the Norwegian rock band Madrugada. He was also a founding member of the band My Midnight Creeps, where he played guitar and was lead singer. On 12 July 2007, ...

and Ricochets-guitarist

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Biography

Other members included Dag Stiberg on tenor saxophone, Behzad Farazollahi on

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s, Anders Møller on percussion and Raymond Jensen on

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. Keyboardist Mikael Lindqvist also appeared on their first album, ''My Midnight Creeps''. The band's music carried inspiration from The Stooges, as well as The Rolling Stones and The Animals. Their critically acclaimed second album ''Histamin'' received six out of six points in a review in Norwegian newspaper '' Verdens Gang''. Following the death of Burås on July 12, 2007, My Midnight Creeps was quickly dissolved, however, in 2011 the remaining members of the band (with the exception of bassist Jensen, who was replaced by ex- Madrugada bassist

Frode Jacobsen Frode Jacobsen (born 11 June 1974) is a musician, bass guitarist, songwriter and record producer from Stokmarknes in Norway. He is the founding member of the band Madrugada, one of the most successful acts in Norwegian musical history. Jacobsen i ...

) started a new project named Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O. They released their self-titled debut in June 2011 with a follow up entitled ''Are You Land Or Water?'' released in January 2016. The band is named after a My Midnight Creeps song from the album ''Histamin'', and is musically very different from its predecessor, making heavy use of intricate rhythms and female backing vocals with their second album heading in a more dark and

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musical direction.

Honors

*2007: Spellemannprisen in the category Rock music, for the album ''Histamin''

Discography

*2005: ''My Midnight Creeps'' (MMC Records) *2007: ''Histamin'' (

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)

References

External links

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