Captain Melted grew up with The Sex Pistols and The Damned rattling round his brain. They weren't exactly musical monsters, but they filled him up with energy, anger and a delight in anything anti-authoritarian. Musically, his tastebuds were tickled deliciously by the bands that grew out of punk, the non-amorphous bunch that got labelled "post-punk", bands like Wire, Cabaret Voltaire, Rema Rema, Joy Division, Siouxsie & The Banshees. Then, much later, after the dreadful decade (the 1980's) was over, he had a musical awakening to bands like The Orb, Leftfield, Transglobal Underground, Loop Guru, Underworld and many many more.
Captain Melted, a true eclectic if ever there was one, has been equally influenced by the late 1970s and the early to mid 1990's. His music is something of a reflection of both these eras, if not a strange marriage - perhaps even a shotgun wedding.
If you're canny with dates, you've probably worked out that the good Captain is something of an old fart, being in his mid-forties. It may surprise you to know then that he only started making music last year. Just goes to show you, doesn't it? What it goes to show you though, I don't know.
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