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Influences
As a schoolkid in the 60's I purchased every single by bands like the Small Faces, Kinks and the Who... and then when rock and psychedelia came along I fell in love with Soft Machine, The Groundhogs and Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd (not to be mistaken for the other lot...) amongst others like the Pretty Things, Brian Auger, The Stooges, Marc Bolan, The Cowsills, Pink Fairies, Traffic, Santana, King Crimson, etc... all wonderful stuff that I play over and over to this day.
There's not so many current bands that can match that lot for inventiveness but Stereolab, Zero Zero, Sing Sing and Zoot Woman sound like the real thing - well, to my ear anyway.
Working with wonderful bands like Zombina and the Skeletones, Spookey, The Priscillas and Polysics keeps us on our toes as well... check them out if they're gigging down your way.
And now, by popular request I'm gonna post my all time top ten fav albums.....
1) Groundhogs - 'Thank Christ For The Bomb'
2) Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - 'Brian Auger's Oblivion Express'
3) Syd's Pink Floyd - 'Piper at the Gates Of Dawn'
4) Pink Fairies - 'Never Never Land'
5) Soft Machine - 'Vol 1+2'
6) Egg - 'The Polite Force'
7) Electric Prunes - 'Lost Dreams'
8) Bee Gees - 'First'
9) Stray - 'Stray'
10) Jimi Hendrix - 'Smash Hits'
You could do a lot worse than giving some of these superb records a spin playmates, but don't expect to go trawling through them looking for nicked riffs and the like - I never do THAT kind of thing.... ahem!
Sounds Like
The Captain material could possibly be described as highly melodic, occasionally anthemic pop...tinged with melancholy.
But, for those of you who've not had the pleasure (fnar fnar!) let me tell you a bit about myself and my wonderful and occasionally bizarre music carreer..............
Well, after a few years punking it up with Johnny Moped and the Damned somehow I found myself on Top Of The Pops singing a showtune from South Pacific... 'Happy Talk' it was called (how could you ever forget!) and nothing was ever the same again.
As a former toilet cleaner for Croydon Council I wasn't going to tell the record label to stick all that dosh up their bums now, was I... so that's how I became the most unlikely popstar in Britain.
After 2 albums of (even if I say so myself) classic synth-pop on A+M Records - 'Women an Captain's First' and 'The Power Of Love' I left to record more indie sounding guitar based records like 'Revolution Now' and my cosmic rock opera 'The Universe of Geoffrey Brown' which I'm rather proud of.
These days I still perform with that lovable bunch of rogues The Damned - who are playing better than ever currently.... and also with Mike Peters and Slim Jim Phantom on an as yet un-named band project - they're nice chaps and we see eye to eye musically as well... so we're gonna make a pretty interesting album sometime soon methinks!!
*** HEY - I"M NOW ON U-TUBE (click the banner) ***
Oh, feel free to knock up a quick work of art while you're here playmates. Blimey, old Picasso would have loved THIS now wouldn't he!
*** DOWNLOAD ***
I have had a few complaints that Xmas Catalog has been unavailable to download from the music player on this page, which shouldn't be the case as the lovely Tintin has set things up so you can download the songs if you feel that way inclined. Anyway, just in case things ARE a bit iffy I have posted my poptastic Xmas ditty in the Captain Sensible section of the (click the link)
Hello Playmates, Captain here with news of a bunch of some freshly booked Damned shows. Come and join us if you can and be a part of the proceedings which promise to be a celebration of all things punk, goth and psych!
JUNE 2009
Italy Sat 27 Fiera della Musica AZZANO X (PN)
JULY 2009
UK Sat 11 Cornbury Festival Oxfordshire
UK Sun 12 The Brook, Southampton
AUGUST 2009
UK Fri 7 Rebellion Festival Blackpool
UK Sat 8 Roadmender (?) Northampton
UK Sun 9 The Park, Peterborough
CZ Sat 22 Pod Parou Festival Moravska Trebova
* 3-4-1 Tour with The Alarm and Henry Cluney
Best to stay tuned to officialdamned.com for any possible updates / changes. Cheers - Cap
HELLO EVERYBODY - and welcome to this... my dodgy Myspace. Please feel free to poke about - there's all sorts of diverse stuff in here for y'all. And I do love to read your messages... no matter WHAT they say (try and keep it clean, lol)
***LUDDITE***
This site is actually being run for Cap by a web-savvy friend.
Mr Sensible has this to say...
"Luddite? Well, I have to admit you have got a bit of a point there.... all this new fangled technology and all that - well, to be honest I have got better things to do than tap tap tap away all day on a computer keyboard answering stacks of messages. Consequently - I DON'T ACTUALLY EDIT THIS SITE MYSELF so please don't be offended if there's no reply... I really do appreciate you dropping by - and maybe the lovely Tintin (see my friends) who is the techie genius who keeps the site together and uploads my blurb will say hi on my behalf as she's got a much better grasp of this MySpace thing and is also a lot prettier that your old punk guitarist chum.
This IS definitely my site though!"
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." Hunter S. Thompson
Dear All, Captain is guesting on Invisible System - Punt (made in Ethiopia) getting great reviews and airplay in the UK and US e.g.current and next FRoots mag
Captain Sensible (The Damned) Ed Wynne (Ozric Tentacles / Noden Inctus) Simon Hinkler (ex-The Mission) Dubulah (ex-Transglobal Underground, Temple of Sound, Natasha Atlas etc) Perch (Zion Train) Juldeh (Justin Adams, Realworld etc) Elmer Thudd (ex-Loop Guru) Mahmoud Ahmed & Bahta Gebrehiwot (Ethiopiques) Hilaire Shabby (Baba Maal) Justin Adams (Robert Plant & Strange Sensation, ex Jah Wobble’s Invaders) Tsedenia, Mimi, Kebede, Desta, Terameg & Sami (Ethiopians since this album signed to Realworld Records as Dub Collosus) Joie Hinton (ex-Eat Static & Ozric Tentacles / Here and Now / IGV) Martin Cradick (Baka Beyond/ex-Outback) Gary Woodhouse (The Rhythmites) Bos (ex-Junkwaffle and Warp/Eat Static artist)
The album is Ethiopian, World, Dub, Dance, Rock, Drum & Bass, Psychedelia, Trance, Electronica & live traditional vocal and instrument. amazon.co.uk, play.com, harperdiabate.com, itunes, cdbaby etc (buy the cd, art work is awsome!)
Thanx for adding us Capt, needless to say we are big fans of The Damned & your solo work ... congratulations on having a train named after you, you must be well proud ... cheers & beers ... AKP
You were the band that the 77 Hollywood punks respected the most. Saw you at the Warfield in San Francisco in 78. You guys got into a chair breaking contest, and you ended up a little bit hurt. Thanx for the great music!
Check out 'A Testimonial to Boss Goodman: Portobello Shuffle : A Tribute to the Deviants and Pink Fairies for sound clips from Mick Farren and the Deviants featuring former Motorhead drummer Philthy 'Animal' Taylor;past
and present members of the Damned - Rat Scabies and Brian James, and Captain Sensible and Monty Oxymoron; Wilko
Johnson Band; Clark Hutchinson; Darryl Read, John Perry, Adrian Shaw and Rod Goodway; Pink FA featuring Nik Turner
and Terry Ollis; John Sinclair and His Ladbroke Grove Blues Scholars (AKA George Butler and Slim Tim Slide) and
Felix Dennis. Further clips from Jello Biafra and the Pink Finks themselves!
For more details visit http://www.myspace.com/deviants_pinkfairies ---------------------------------- Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie with the Deviants and the Pink Fairies by Rich Deakin with an introduction by Mick
Check out the amazing, edwoodian, creepy videoclip of DR BLOODMONEY by THE MUGSHOTS! And, if you like it, please do support some poor euro-ghouls by buying their music! Copy this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbuIUCGCuyE