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Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine | |
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 Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine performing live in 2011 | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Los Angeles,California, U.S. |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | Coverage Records (current),Surfdog,Oglio |
| Members | Richard Cheese (Mark Jonathan Davis) Bobby Ricotta (Noel Melanio) Frank Feta (Brian Fishler) Billy Bleu (Ron Belcher) |
| Website | richardcheese |
Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine (or simplyRichard Cheese) is acover band andcomedy act, performing popular songs in alounge/swing style. Lounge singer Richard Cheese is a character created and portrayed byLos Angeles–based actor/comedian/singer Mark Jonathan Davis.
Davis had previously worked as Director of Comedy Network Programming forPremiere Networks.[1] He developed the Richard Cheese lounge singer idea in the mid-1990s.[citation needed] The band's work was first broadcast in 2000 byKROQ-FM and theDr. Demento show.[2]
Since 2000, Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine band has released 28 albums.[citation needed]
The band's debut albumLounge Against the Machine was released in 2000 byOglio Records.[3] Cheese's second and third albums,Tuxicity andI'd Like a Virgin were independently released in 2002 and 2004 by Cheese's own label, Ideatown Entertainment (later renamed to Coverage Records).[citation needed] From 2005 to 2006,Surfdog Records released three Richard Cheese CDs:Aperitif for Destruction, a studio album,Silent Nightclub, a collection of songs tangentially related to the holiday season, andThe Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese, which included newly re-recorded versions of six covers from previous albums, plus four new studio recordings. Surfdog also re-released the Richard Cheese albumsTuxicity andI'd Like a Virgin on their label.[citation needed]
Beginning in 2007, the band returned to releasing its own albums, through Davis's independent Coverage Records label.
Richard Cheese's cover ofDisturbed's "Down with the Sickness" was featured in the 2004Zack Snyder-directed remake ofDawn of the Dead.[4]
In 2016, the band had two songs in the motion pictureBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and released a one-track parody album calledLive at Wayne Financial Tower in which the band's performance is cut short bySuperman's heat vision.[4] Warner Bros. included the band as animated LEGO mini-figs in the 2017 filmThe Lego Batman Movie.[4]
The character of Richard Cheese appeared in the Kristen Wiig comedyBarb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, released in February 2021.[4]
In May 2021, Snyder'sArmy of the Dead movie featured Richard Cheese singing the opening song "Viva Las Vegas" in a duet with Allison Crowe.[4]
As of 2015, the lineup of the Lounge Against The Machine band was:
The names are allpseudonyms that refer to types of cheese (ricotta,feta,bleu).[2]
The role of pianist and musical director Bobby Ricotta is currently[when?] played by Noel Melanio. The band's first drummer, Buddy Gouda, was played by Todd LaValley, and then by Charles Byler. Byler left the band in 2004; he was replaced by Brian Fishler, and the drummer's stage name was changed to Frank Feta. The current bass player, Billy Bleu, is portrayed by Ron Belcher.[citation needed]
All self-released as Coverage Records except where noted.
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