Album Available at iTunes Store
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Life’s all about the trivial. The Common, the ordinary, the everyday. All this combines to make the extraordinary.
The love of trivia is the wind in Captain Pop’s sails. A little guitar click in Big Star’s Thirteen; a vocal surge by Aretha in Say a Little Prayer; ice or not in your whiskey. They also recognise that Travis were doomed once they tried to emulate Britney's pop nous. Captain Pop says the Lord as well as the Devil is in the details.
Captain Pop is a co-operative crew of musicians and singers in love with Pop music. "Pop is the only genre that matters" argues the Captain, "To us it doesn’t just mean popular, though of course there are many popular pop songs, it means songs with melody and a zest for life. It’s the power of pop that we look for in a song. We might want to do a Dance Band number next week. It’ll still be pop."
Captain Pop is 3 ex members of the Liverpool band 16 Tambourines who shone briefly in the early 90's when signed to BMG/Arista: Steve Roberts, who has since cut a solo career he's managed to keep well hidden………; Brian Chin, Jamaican resident in sunny Brighton and Tony Macguigan who has drummed for bands as diverse as The Bunnymen and Atomic Kitten (that's very POP). Others bringing their skill and fire to the Captain's table include Martyn Campbell who earns his crust with Richard Ashcroft; Robbie Taylor who's charm and wit overfloweth in The Great North Western Hoboes; Father of four (four!) Al Richardson and the mysterious Billy 'Bones' Bones, piano player to the stars. Or at least to would be stars. "We all love melodic music. We’re all sad enough to covet mundane facts or rumour about the makers of the music we love. What producers produced what song inspired by an argument about what subject is a regular topic 'round here I’m glad to say. It’s trivial but it’s everything."
So here’s Captain Pop’s first release: Shut Up & Sing. The music is made using trumpets, strings, banjos, electric guitars, handclaps, voices, acoustic guitars, drums, home made percussion, organs and anything else they could get their grubby little mitts on.
Recorded in a week of madness and fun, Shut Up & Sing features toe-tappers, ballads and the slightly esoteric all dressed in a colourful Pop overcoat.
Ah, Captain Pop, let’s get trivial
Shut Up & Sing is available via iTunes, Artists First and as limited edition CD from the Acoustic Engine Record Label.
The single ‘Waiting For A Storm’ is released on 20th November 2006.
Captain Pop are touring in late November on a little Pirate Ship borrowed from friends.
www.captainpop.com www.acousticengine.com
