John Mitchell covers Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know in new video

By Jerry Ewing
( Prog )
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Lonely Robot's John Mitchell teams up with Anavae's Rebecca Need-Menear for Gotye cover

John Mitchell
(Image credit: John Mitchell)

Lonely Robot's John Mitchell has recorded a video of him covering Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know, which you can watch below. The song, which was a Number One hit for Belgian/Australian singer Gotye in 2011, taken from his Making Mirrors album, is a duet with Rebecca Need-Menear from the electronic rock duo Anavae.

"This is a cover version of a song I love very much from about ten years ago by a chap called Gotye," Mitchell explains. "It features my good friend Becca from the band Anavae in our third Youtube collaboration together. Becca is also responsible for editing the video, so I apologise to her for my dreadful non focussing camera footage."

Lonely Robot released their fourth album, Feelings Are Good, through InsideOut Music last summer. Mitchell has previously released solo covers of The Police's Message In A Bottle and It Bites' Ghosts on his YouTube channel.

Jerry Ewing
Jerry Ewing

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.