and i said yeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh...

whats going on?

Last night we went to see Brontide + These Waves + Old Gold + Little Courage = awesome night followed by Generation Kill til the early hours :-)

This sunday we're doing an interview and recording a track live for a documentary movie called I'm NOTT from London which will feature awesome bands from the midlands like Pilgrim fathers, Amusement parks, Beyond this point are monsters, Love ends disaster and shitloads more, we're being filmed at the Arts organisation in Nottingham on Sunday @ 11am it's FREE so come along if ya fancy it!

After that we're taking June off to write and rehearse like we've never rehearsed before with the exception of one show on the 15th with Adebisi shank.

We move in to our new Captain HeadQuarters on June 1st with 24/7 access so are gonna take advantage of that by pretty much living in the lockup so we can get ready to tour our asses off in summer, we're currently booking shows all over England and Ireland again at the moment and theres a chance we may be going to Italy over summer to play some shows with Stoned dog standing but nothings 100% confirmed in regards that so watch this space.

We're aiming to have a release we're 100% happy with before autumn (fingers crossed)

Todd's currently off galavanting round the country doing art workshops while Ash and I are busy promoting bUTTONpUSHER & Creative Blocks respectively. Blocks is on this Friday at Big blue in Derby with a varied lineup for ya or if anyones near Leicester white noise summer starts at firebug on friday evening for the weekend!

check details here....WHITENOISE

THIS IS A POSTER

DOUBLE HANDSOME DRAGONS now added to the lineup :-)

Love Music, Hate Racism ...FUSEFEST - TODAY

We're playing the Mist @ 5pm today and it's all FREE to raise awareness about Love Music Hate Racism!

see ya there!

bUTTONpUSHER

The launch night featuring Blakfish, Hot bone and Rolo tomassi DJ's kicked off to a pretty decent start, we did have our first cancellation a few days before the event with Brontide having to reschedule for later in the year but we brought in the lovely "These Waves" to fill in for them and all the bands played excellent sets, Hot bone were my favorites of the night fo sure although it was a tight call as blakfish were fuckin excellent as usual. The smoking ban has killed clubnights tho cos after Blakfish's set everyone decided to head out or go home leaving James Tomassi DJing to pretty much an empty dancefloor while everyone gathered round the tables outside for a drum off with some guy who'd toured with Jojo Mayer.

Read a little review from SteveFR here .... Last.fm journal

We ended up callin it a night at 1.30am and continued the party at our mate neffs, i'll get some videos and photos uploaded asap for ya!

Next month we're back with 2 shows

****15th june @ the mist derby********

ADEBISI SHANK
ATC
DOUBLE HANDSOME DRAGONS
GRANDE DUKE

*******25th June @ SEVEN, NOTTS********

These Monsters
Venice Ahoy
The Freezing Fog
Xtag
+ Maybeshewill (DJ SET)

boredsville

Back in work again for another few days now after a hectic few days

on thursday a few of us caught Foals at the Rockhouse in Derby which was fun, couldn't understand a single word Yannis was saying between songs tho and the vocals in general were a bit quiet but it was a fun show.

Friday we played the Leftlion show at Brownes in Hockley with Polymath who were all lovely, both bands found out very quickly that we were playing to the wrong crowd altogether, it was full of shirt and shoe wearing clowns lookin for a trendy bar and the stiff kitten DJ's didn't really help matters by playing lots of banging house music,leading people into a false sense of security for their friday night. We played a pretty enjoyable set and had fun just a shame the only people who gave a shit were the people we knew!

Saturday a much needed lie in then just killed time until i headed over to Notts to see the ASIWYFA and Maybeshewill guys at Rock city. Bangin shows from both as usual!

Sunday was the Frigid stars all dayer at the vines in Derby.

I pretty much caught everything that was going on and ate lots of delicious cake, the highlights were xtag's set including ATDi and Fugazi covers, Two minute noodles were fuckin awesome again, who knew organ and drums could be so much fun? check them out!!!
We played a fun but sketchy set so we're looking forward to recouping in June and getting back to form for summer!
Grande Duke are Baz from Beyond this point are monsters new band, they reminded me a bit of isis in parts but it was Baz's drummin which really stood out with some great off time beats!
Maybeshewill and ASIWYFA co-headlined and again were fuckin banging, the sound was perfect and you could hear everything crystal clear, the only disappointment was ASWIYFA's set being cut short due to curfew :-(

This week we've got the bUTTONpUSHER launch night and the next captain show is saturday for the Fusefest in Derby alongside bands like Asian Dub foundation, These waves and loads more and it's all FREE!!!,we play The Mist in the afternoon sometime i think!

post-ATP depression

Fucking deadly weekend, arrived after the 4 hour journey (thanks to Paul the legend for driving) and got checked in and off we went to find our chalet and meet the neighbours who were a crowd from Dublin, turned out they were all in awesome bands called Adebisi shank, Hands up who wants to die and Hooray for humans.
On friday we caught Devo, Jesu and fuck buttons, i really can't remember much after fuck buttons at all :-(



Saturday we went for a walk along the beach and stopped for breakfast by the sea to clear our delicate heads before catching Lords last show for a long time which was cool but no where near loud enough which was a shame but still a wicked show.
I caught Retribution gospel choir (Alan Sparhawk of Low's new band), the fucking mighty Qui (one of my personal highlights along with the jesus lizard)they were so fucking dark and rocked so hard, David Yow's a legend and they completely owned the afternoon, a few people had recommended Harvey Milk so off we trekked and we definitely weren't disappointed, back to the chalet for some redwine and buckfast action (yes they sold buckie at butlins.kinda sums up the mental people they like to encourage at butlins :-) in preparation for the first jesus lizard show in 11 years, we headed up with the neighbours and got a wicked spot about 4 rows from the front, they opened with Puss and it was only about a minute before Yow had his Tshirt ripped off and began corwd surfing, the whole show was carnage, i struggled to stay on my feet and got the absolute shit beat out of me including Yow's knee to the head, i lost a shoe but got it back luckily or i'd have been shoeless for the rest of the weekend. After the set i lost everyone so i had a little space around before Sleep, they were one of the heaviest bands i've ever seen live and they destroyed the place, admittedly i was pretty wankered by the time i ran into Shea and Rony and the rest of the Belfast crowd, we went and partied at their chalet after until security shut us down and i headed back towards our chalets but i got lost on my way before running into Barry (hands up), apparently we headed round a few bars handing out stickers and badges before heading to the Dubliners chalet for more carnage eventually crawling into bed at about 7am.

Sunday i woke up gutted that the weekend was fast approaching an end and nursing a brutal hangover, we didn't move out of the sun until about 5.30 to go see future of the left on fine form playing the main stage, time then for a quick bite to eat while we watched a bit of parts and labour, i like their recorded output but was not a fine of their live show so we left and continued to aprty back at the chalets, we'd the most mental mini party ever crowdsurfing round the chalet to weezer and um bongo before heading into the arena again for the mae shi who were excellent (i'd not heard much of their stuff before either but will be back for more)
A few of us headed to see the jesus lizard again and it was another epicly vicious show although the band and crowd were all a little tamer than the previous night i thought.

I caught the last few songs of This will destroy you's set which was brutally loud but beautiful. Then it was off to see sleep again as they were playing most of dopesmoker, i left for a little bit and went to the chalet for 15 mins respite before heading back in again with barry and heading down the front, we left after wards and had a bop round crazy horse to mike divers set before they closed the bar and we went in search of a party, we met the guys from Health and Parts and labour and chatted for a while on the hunt together unsuccessfully before they gave up and went to their chalets, we continued the hunt and ran into a load of welsh guys one of whom looked like Bubs from the Wire and bantered with them for a bit, we'd somehow ended up at the opposite end of butlins and had to make the trek back to our chalets to find the party which was kicking off behind our chalet...slinked off to bed at about 6 and was up again for 10 to check out!

Monday we said our goodbyes to our wonderful new friends before a leisurely drive/sleep back and stopped off for lunch before getting home!

This week sees more rehearsals for our Leftlion show on friday and our ASIWYFA/ Maybeshewill gig on sunday. Fun times!

Tonights the Night

We're playing our first set as a 3 piece, fingers crossed it all goes well as it's only been 2 weeks since the changes but we're gonna give it a bash and have a laugh!

Doors 8pm @ Ye old Salutation inn, Nottingham with I WISH I KNEW! and The Wickets

keep ya posted!

UPDATE: We went on first there were about 25/30 people there, no real disasters occured apart from Ash knocking the plug for my amp out of the wall mid song, bit nervous but it could have gone alot worse, it was like someone had pressed the reset button and we were 2 years back in time playing our first gig but it was fun!

I wish i knew were all really sound and we ended up chatting late into the night which was fun before crashing for ATP

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Sweeping the nation wrote this lovely little article about us...

Alright The Captain are an instrumental band. And round here, you know what being an instrumental band means - intricate intertwining math-y guitar lines, punishing drumming, the odd lapse into sludge metal riffage. Well... yes, all that, but there's something in the way they do it which includes more than just knowing their way round post-rock dynamics, with knowledge of surf, post-hardcore and glitch all coming to the fore. With And So I Watch You From Afar making waves with the right people, a new album from Maybeshewill, just across the county border from the trio's Derby base, in June and 65daysofstatic making a renewed attack on the senses across the festivals with an album imminent maybe there's even a scene in it all.


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life as 3

is going really well. We had another rehearsal last night and it was fuckin boss, lots of fresh new ideas and the guts of 3 songs on the go :-) we're all looking forward to testing the new lineup out next week now even more for sure. exciting times :-)