(caps (self portrait) courtesy of NR)
caps
As playlisted on Tom Robinson's BBC Radio 6 Show, 'Introducing..'
(how it all happened)
Caps started writing songs in about 1990, but never had the equipment or know-how to record them. Then, a couple of years back he started playing bass with 'The Sleuths'. They played the Barfly supporting Simple Kid and Quasi, also played at The Cavern. After the band called it a day in 2007 Caps got himself some software and started to record his own stuff. From sketchy beginnings his sound has slowly grown into something to be shared.
Influenced hugely by The Beta Band, Radiohead, N.E.R.D, TV on the Radio, Queens of the Stone Age and De La Soul: bands that do something different, bands that don't stick to type... mixing it up keeps people interested, Caps included.
Caps has wanted to write songs all his adult life, which stems from a love of music from as early as he can remember..... earlier influences like The Commodores, ABBA, ELO, early Jackson, The Captain and Tenille, helped to shape and mould the Caps sound.
Now armed with fx pedals, drum machine, electric guitar, microphone, and pen, he is ready to take on the world.
His two mini-albums "Radiator" and "Kerplunk" are available on iTunes and Amazon. In 2009 Caps completed his debut album entitled "The Avenger", which includes a collaboration with the legend Ray Davies of The Kinks. More recently, Caps' second full-length album "Star to Star" has just been released to critical acclaim.
He is making waves on national radio, having been hand picked by Tom Robinson himself to appear on the BBC Radio 6 show 'Introducing..' in May 2009. Surely a sign of better and bigger things to come.
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