Your Sunday Evening Awesome Vegetarian Post of Evening Awesomeness on a Sunday (I forgot about it today, okay?  Cut me some slack.) is Eddie Argos, frontman for Art Brut.   Now, I’m going to tell you upfront I’m fudging this one a little bit, as I’m basing my claim to his vegetarianism on this quote: “I regularly flit between meat-eater, vegetarian and vegan. I’m very indecisive.”  I say, GOOD ENOUGH, because two out of three ain’t bad.

So, back to the music.   I use the word “frontman” for Argos in an abstract way, because he is so, so much more.   In his British speak-sing accent, Argos hollers about anything and everything.   Live, he goes into the crowd and dances, or speaks directly to the crowd about the necessity of modern art while the band plays on behind him, or starts songs with a big, “Art Brut ready?  GO!”  Let’s have a look, shall we?

That was “Formed a Band,” which was the first track off their first album, Bang Bang Rock and Roll.   You can’t really argue with a man who tells us, “We wrote the song that made Israel and Palestine get along.”  I mean, that’s skill. Here’s another live cut, this of Art Brut’s “Good Weekend,” which you should watch only if you can stand less-than-veiled references to whoopie.

Argos sometimes sings about things that are slightly more serious, at least on album number two It’s a Bit Complicated.   This track, “Nag Nag Nag Nag,” deals with the existential funk of growing older.   Yet Argos somehow makes it sound much more interesting than that.

So, there’s your Art Brut primer.   Great rock music with awesome lyrics come together to rock your feeble clerk world (that was a reference to Clerks: The Animated Series (about two minutes into the video in that link) and I’m sorry you had to experience it).   ANYhow, you can, as always, takepart and get your free vegetarian starter kit to be like Eddie Argos, on days he’s decided to be a vegetarian or vegan.