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Captain Black

"Sister" Out from 9th June on Bumpman Records!!!

About Me


Captain Black are a unique sounding band currently dwelling in Camden Town, London. Their folky melodies, skiffle rhythms and gospel tinged choruses come together in a set of individual and modern sounding pop songs that you will not hear the likes of in any other band around.
They are currently working on their debut album due for release in 2008, which is sure to carry on splitting opinions and sparking debate but is guaranteed to gain new fans and definitely won’t go unnoticed.
Listen to any of their catchy singles or come to one of their highly talked about, energetic live shows to see what all the fuss is about.
Fan or Foe, you cannot avoid the sound of Captain Black.x

Here are a selection of places where you can buy Come on Up To Our House from:

As a download from and 7 digital , as a CD from HMV and Amazon and on 7" from HMV


Make sure you get your tickets for this now:

Recent Press (Click to enlarge)


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/27/2005
Band Website: captainblack.org.uk
Band Members: Keith Austin- lead vocals and acoustic
Sam Relleen- guitar and backing vocals
Simon Shields- bass and backing vocals
Mark Austin - drums
Johnny Manning- keyboards

Joanna Ashmore - Booking Agent - ITB
Contact - joanna[at]itb.co.uk

Keir Mills - Press: [email protected]
Influences: Nick Cave, The Pogues, Johnny Cash, Lonnie Donegan, Gospel, The Smiths
Sounds Like: Here is the Video for Come On Up to Our House released 02.07.07
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We recently recorded this live video of Blonde Hair for SUB TV, watch it in your local student union, or just watch it here...
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Record Label: Bumpman Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

London Tourdates feature

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Posted by Captain Black on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:07:00 PST

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Posted by Captain Black on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:04:00 PST

Teletext Top 50 Singles of 2007

Thanks again to Teletext for placing us so high up in the Top 50 Singles of 2007 SINGLES 1) MAXIMO PARK Our Velocity 2) LCD SOUNDSYSTEM North American Scum 3) DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP Thou Shalt A...
Posted by Captain Black on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:03:00 PST

Captain Black in Japan!

Our Come On Up To Our House 7" ranked 1 on Rock/Guitar Pop genre at Jet Set (Cool independent record store. They have 3 branches in Tokyo, Kyoto and Kobe.) on 11th July Also it also ranked 4 on A...
Posted by Captain Black on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:32:00 PST

Teletext Review

Captain Black Water Rats London  9/10 Already one of the best unsigned bands in Britain, the inheritors of Mike Scott's literate, thrilling panoramas have been absent for some time. The reason in...
Posted by Captain Black on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:36:00 PST

Buy Come On Up To Our House!

Here are a selection of places where you can buy the single from: As a download in iTunes and 7 digital, as a CD from HMV and Amazon, and on 7" from HMV. See you later tonight for the single lau...
Posted by Captain Black on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:48:00 PST

Thanks To Colin Murray!!!

Just a quick Note to say Thank You to Collin Murray for being the first person to play our new single "Come On Up To Our House" on his Radio 1 show. He's played it 4 times that we know of now! &n...
Posted by Captain Black on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:56:00 PST

Holloways Support Tour '07

We're now (sadly) back from our tour supporting the Holloways, was a great week so thanks to everyone who came down to the gigs, danced, cheered and let us stay round their houses. Tour diaries can of...
Posted by Captain Black on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:17:00 PST

Captain Black's 2006 Highlights

Captain Black's 2006 We feel it's about time we looked back on this year and how it's been for us, so people if you are all sitting comfortably, here is the Captain Black story in its entirety, w...
Posted by Captain Black on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:40:00 PST

Teletext top 50 singles of the year!

Teletext have compiled their top 50 singles of the year, we're at no. 30 nice touch! see ya all soon xx SINGLES 1) LIAM FROST & THE SLOWDOWN FAMILY The Mourners Of St Paul's 2) PETER BJORN & J...
Posted by Captain Black on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:17:00 PST