Mike Kerr (7,052 views)

[1999]

Mike Kerr (9 June 1990)

Vocal Range: G2 - G♯5
Associated acts: Royal Blood (2011 - present)

Significant high notes:

G♯5 ("Little Monster" unreleased version)
F♯5 ("Lover" unreleased b-side, "Shiner In the Dark")
E5 ("Cheap Affection", "Look Like You Know", "Typhoons")
E♭5 ("Cheap Affection", "Look Like You Know", "Hole in Your Heart", "Pull Me Through", "Sleep")
D5 ("Either You Want It", "Half the Chance", "How Did We Get So Dark?", "King", "Trouble's Coming", "Window" unreleased b-side, "You Can Be So Cruel")
C♯5 ("Hold On", "Hole in Your Heart", "Look Like You Know", "Love and Leave It Alone", "Mad Visions", "She’s Creeping", "Shiner In the Dark", "Typhoons")
C5 ("Brave" unreleased b-side, live, "Cheap Affection", "Domino", "Don’t Tell", "Either You Want It", "Half the Chance", "Hook, Line & Sinker", "How Did We Get So Dark?", "King", "Limbo", "Little Monster", "Lover" unreleased b-side, "Pull Me Through", "Oblivion", "Space")
B4 ("Hole in Your Heart", "Look Like You Know", "Mountains at Midnight", "Oblivion", "One Trick Pony", "Trouble's Coming", "West Coast" live Radio GIEL 2014, "Where Are You Now?")
B♭4 ("Boilmaker" live for Radio X, 2021, "Don’t Tell", "Hole", "How Did We Get So Dark?", "Limbo", "Lover" unreleased b-side, "Sad But True", "She’s Creeping")
A4 ("Careless", "Come On Over", "Either You Want It", "The Ground Below", "Happy" live BBC Radio 1, 2014, "Hold On", "Honeybrains", "Lights Out", "Love and Leave It Alone", "Lover" unreleased b-side, "Mad Visions", "Million and One", "Oblivion", "Out of the Black", "Sad But True", "Shiner In the Dark", "Ten Tonne Skeleton", "Typhoons", "Who Needs Friends", "Window" unreleased b-side, "You Want Me")
G♯4 ("Blood Hands", "Cheap Affection", "Come On Over", "Domino", "The Firing Line", "Hold On", "Hole", "Hole in Your Heart", "Honeybrains", "I Only Lie When I Love You", "Lights Out", "Little Monster", "Little Wonder", "Look Like You Know", "Loose Change", "Million and One", "Out of the Black" several live performances, "Typhoons", "You Can Be So Cruel", "You Want Me")
G4 ("20th Century Boy" several live performances, "Better Strangers", "Careless", "Domino", "Don't Tell", "Either You Want It", "Figure It Out", "Half the Chance", "Hook, Line & Sinker", "How Did We Get So Dark?", "I Only Lie When I Love You", "Limbo", "Lights Out", "Little Monster", "Lover" unreleased b-side, "Pull Me Through", "Oblivion", "One Trick Pony", "Out of the Black", "Roxanne" live BBC Radio 1, 2015, "Sad But True", "Sexual Hell" unreleased b-side, "Sleep", "Tell Me When It's Too Late", "Ten Tonne Skeleton", "West Coast" live Radio GIEL 2014, "Where Are You Now?", "You Can Be So Cruel")

Significant low notes:

F3 ("Boilermaker", "Careless", "The Firing Line", "Hook, Line & Sinker", "Limbo", "She's Creeping", "Space", "Ten Tonne Skeleton")
E3 ("20th Century Boy" several live performances, "All We Have Is Now", "Boilermaker", "Figure It Out", "The Ground Below", "Happy" live BBC Radio 1, 2014, "Oblivion", "West Coast" live Radio GIEL, "Where Are You Now?", "Who Needs Friends", "You Can Be So Cruel")
E♭3 ("All We Have Is Now", "Better Strangers", "Sleep")
D3 ("Boilermaker", "Careless", "Come On Over", "Figure It Out", "Happy" live BBC Radio 1, 2014, "Hook, Line & Sinker", "Limbo", "Lights Out", "Out of the Black", "Where Are You Now?", "You Can Be So Cruel")
C♯3 ("Little Wonder", "Million and One", "Out of the Black" several live performances, "Shiner In the Dark", "Typhoons")
C3 ("Come On Over", "Hang Me Out to Dry" live Radio Triple J, "Out of the Black", "Pull Me Through", "Sleep")
B2 ("Hole in Your Heart", "Little Wonder", "Million and One", "Mountains at Midnight")
A2 ("Hang Me Out to Dry" live Radio Triple J, "Mountains at Midnight")
G2 ("Pull Me Through")

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*Underlines marks notes sung in backing vocals/overdubs.
*Italics marks non-melodic notes.
*Blue marks soft falsetto notes.
*Boldface marks noteworthy passages or performances.

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{Questionable Notes}
G♯5 ("Hell" unreleased b-side[5])
E5 ("Hole in Your Heart" [2])
D5 ("Domino" [2])
A4 ("I Only Lie When I Love You"[5], "Tell Me When It's Too Late" [2)

C♯3 ("Mad Visions"[2)
B2 ("The Firing Line"[4])
G2 ("Oblivion"[2])

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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.

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{Album Ranges}
With Royal Blood:

2014 - Royal Blood: C3 - A4 - D5
2017 - How Did We Get So Dark?: B2 - A4 - E5
2021 - Typhoones: B2 - B♭4 - E5
2023 - Back to the Water Below:

[aphelion]

Are the F#5s in ‘Lover’ Mike? Or are they the C5s in the thread, there are 2 versions on the song and one of them has what sound like black F#5s in the backing vocals. Im also getting a black G#5 in 'Hell' but again i have no clue if its him or not. Heres a link if you wanna listen for yourself www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXC9TTfXUwE&t=1182s&ab_channel=ParanoidErased

[1999]

No clue on Hell's G♯5 and Lover F♯5s; the C5 is the lead vocals right at the end.
I'm quite sceptical, to be honest, never heard him singing like that, even his falsetto sounds pretty smooth and he didn't show any sign of properly mixed voice whatsoever in his entire career.
Then again, he was pretty young at that time so it might be him experimenting with his vocals but it's just too difficult to tell I guess.

When I first heard the G♯5 from the unreleased version of Little Monster I was in fact quite surprised lol

[aphelion]

youtu.be/_eSj5Ln8iMQ?t=110 it sounds like theres a backing G2 around here that could probably go in questionable notes

[1999]

Okay I'm not crazy then, it's currently listed as a B2 cause I thought G was too low. lol
However, HOWEVER, Is it actually him going down to a G? What do you think?

[Gilad]

It's not unbelievable that he could get there, and I doubt they'd have got someone else

[aphelion]

Jul 4, 2021 23:37:03 GMT Gilad said:

It's not unbelievable that he could get there, and I doubt they'd have got someone else

In the song credits on the vinyl, the 2 female backing vocalists they use in live shows are credited on Oblivion as well as Mike, but to me it sounds like Mikes voice hitting that low note. I wouldn’t put it past him tbh

[1999]

Are we sure the sound is produced by his voice?
Like, I can genuinely hear the backing vox on top going: Oblivioooooon (G3), but the way the G2 just pop up from nowhere underneath is just weird, I can't actually hear the sound producing any word, as if it were an FX of some sort.

[aphelion]

Jul 9, 2021 23:45:48 GMT 1999 said:

Are we sure the sound is produced by his voice?
Like, I can genuinely hear the backing vox on top going: Oblivioooooon (G3), but the way the G2 just pop up from nowhere underneath is just weird, I can't actually hear the sound producing any word, as if it were an FX of some sort.

a little late to the conversation but it is entirely possible that it’s a vocoder. The shift in direction from them certainly doesn’t put it past them but honestly yeah just stick it in questionable

[Batfleck]

Here's his guest feature from the last Architects album. He does the 2nd verse in "Little Wonder", so B2 and C♯3 for lows, and the highest note he hits in this song is an F♯4 I think. Song kinda has a nice Depeche Mode vibe.