If musically they sound like no one else, then visually, too, they make for a motley bunch, their individual fashion statements way outside the remit of most stylists. Rik Flynn, for example, dresses like an OAP. "I'm drawn to a certain old world elegance, it's true," he says, smoothing down his camel-coloured coat and self-consciously rearranging the tilt of his Arthur Daley hat. "I'm influenced entirely by my granddad. He always looked so right somehow, and I've been trying to emulate that ever since." The man'll never be seen dead in a parka, then.
AFTER MANY FALSE STARTS, and the occasional handstanding dog, Captain are underway, finally on the cusp of something good, perhaps even something great. They know this themselves, as their furious work rate attests.
"We're always writing, we never stop creating," Flynn says. "I suppose we could always just sit around for a bit, but right now I'd much rather concentrate on the music. There’s a momentum to us, and I'm not going to let that flag. I want us to be headlining Glastonbury before long; I want us to sell 3 million records." Beside him, Reu Humphries grins: "I thought you wanted us to sell just one million?" "My confidence is soaring," comes the reply. "Three million at the very least."
Oh, and one more thing: the name Captain comes from Rik Flynn's childhood dog, a delightful black labrador puppy. "Delightful? He was a fucking lunatic, that dog, totally hyperactive. My parents had to give him away." Captain, the dog, saw his time out chasing balls on a nearby golf course. Captain, the band, are chasing bigger things.
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