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Toxic Mikel’s a Borne Fighter
LA band battle on after singer loses his voice
By Avril Cadden
June 7, 2009
Photo Credit: Kristy Sparow
When Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett’s voice was ravaged by disease, he would have been forgiven for quitting music.
Instead he and his band simply reworked their songs to suit—and they’ve never looked back.
Mikel said: “Autoimmune disease attacked the nerve that controls my vocal cords, so one is partially paralysed.
“It takes about six months to a year for that to heal so that we had to lower all the keys and redo everything.
“I’d usually just scream through the set but I have to lower everything and sing.
“It’s really just a way of getting sympathy. I figure if I tell everyone they’ll let me get up and sing.”
MIkel and bandmates Steven Chen (guitar), Noah Harmon (bass), Anna Bulbrook (strings) and Daren Taylor (drums) are based in Los Angeles.
At Glasgow’s QMU in March, fans even tried to get on stage. Mikel said: “It was almost a riot. That was great. We like that.
“We want that sense you don’t …
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