IAMX - Topic

-Give Me The Stage, God Knows My Life Needs Staging-
Transformation is at the core of Chris Corner’s music and outlook. Ever since leaving wildly
successful 1990’s trip-hop group Sneaker Pimps, Corner’s process of becoming IAMX beginning in
2004 has been theatrical, transcendent, and communal. Androgynous and visceral, IAMX has
metamorphosed from small-town blue-collar kid to international pop star in the 1990’s to creator of
raw art that disrupts gender and genre in the 2000’s. Fuelling electronic experimentation with punk
energy and confessional lyricism, Corner’s goth and industrial sound, fashion, performances,
videos, and persona are larger than life, iconoclastic, and shockingly intimate.

-I Forget That There’s A World Outside-
Growing up as a self-described socially anxious geek, Corner’s interest in music was stoked by a
“weird uncle” who would play “strange music” to him. Interest became obsession, and obsession a
means through which Corner explored his growing fascination with technology. The interest lingers
to this day, as IAMX not only writes and performs, but also produces his own music. The awkward
kid who spent a lot of time in his room became the iconoclastic artist who recently spent weeks in a
tricked-out trailer in a desert staring at mountains, mining the silence around him, fastidiously
mixing and engineering his new album, Alive In New Light (AINL).

-I’ve Seen Attention – See Through Me-
Corner’s adolescent curiosity moved to a new level in his teens when he connected with his older
sister’s boyfriend Liam Howe, who became a friend and collaborator. Their first band F.R.I.S.K.
released two bedroom-produced EPs – Soul of Indiscretion, World as a Cone – that provided an
early sonic template for trip-hop in general. The pair also performed as DJs under the alias Line of
Flight. In 1995, Corner and Lowe formed Sneaker Pimps in Hartlepool, England with support from
Kelli Dayton (vocals), Joe Wilson (bass) and Dave Westlake (drums). The newly formed band took
rave culture and the pop charts by storm with their 1996 debut album, Becoming X which featured
dancefloor classics “6 Underground” and “Spin Spin Sugar”, sold over a million copies, led to
extensive touring, and attracted the attention of Virgin Records who signed them.

-There’s Something That’s Stirring Deep In Me-
In 1998 the band’s changing creative direction lead to Corner taking over vocals from Kelli, and
Splinter was released on Clean Up records in 1999. Splinter fostered a