Captain Wonkfloosh
NEWS   Just back from Perth where I've completed guitar duties and the production/mix work on 39 Dangerous Street's new EP. Two well worked up demo's are now on their soundclick site. Full production versions soon.
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After the disaster at Kittymingan with the doomed Euphoria Project Revival, I moved to the relative seclusion of South Lanarkshire and set up home in my wee cottage "Dunwonkin". After reconstructing Wonkfloosh Studios, I set to work.
Why this name?
No-one beat me to it.
Do you play live?
Yes. Most special moment was with The Euphoria Project at a Beer Festival in Gatehouse of Fleet. We were booked as a folk act, we did a two and a half hour long trancey ambient set which climaxed with a track based around a sample from "Take The High Road" (a popular scottish television series, now sadly discontinued) which said "Right you lot, drink up and go home", the track lasted forty minutes, the boozed up real-alers loved us. At first we thought we were going to get booed off but we got invited back for the following year. That had to be cancelled because I sprained my wrist.

I should add, one of my proudest moments in front of an audience was in Edinburgh when I recieved the Simpsons Fertility Clinic Special Gold Top Donor Award for the 10th year in a row (1999). I like to think I do my bit to help others.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
It shoves it right up them. It shrinks the world and lets musicians swop ideas, tracks and get creative. Which is what music should be all about. As soon as I am able to work out how to convert my audio back catalogue into MP3s, I'll be able to share with the world such gems as Wonkfloosh Tours The Western Isles EP, The Long Dark Night Of Captain Wonkfloosh ( a concept double album), a whole bunch of disco covers done in the special Wonkfloosh way. It'll be marvellous. It has taken too long for technology to catch up with me.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
I'd have to beat off some stiff competition first, even then I'd only sign if the Industry Greeedheads come to "Dunwonkin" and pleaded with me. I am currently signed to a small label in the West of Scotland who have been sticking my music out for me for more than a decade.
Band History:
Too long, tragic, and hilarious to recount at the moment. More info soon.
Your influences?
Robert Burns, Ayrshire, Scotland, The White Heather Club, Jimmy Shand and The Incredible String Band.
Fave track at the moment... Etta James "I'd Rather Go Blind".
Favorite spot?
The crystal clear burn which flows down through white quartz 3000 feet up Ben Oirr on Jura.
Equipment used:
Analogue. Really keech stuff.
Drums are sampled from records then looped on my WEM Copycat or I use a Yamaha RX21 1980's rhythm programmer which I found in a skip in Dalmellington.
My synth pad is really a Bontempi electronic organ (circa 1978) fed through a Realistic Stereo Reverb AX30G.
I play acoustic and electric guitar. I record everything on a Fostex X15 four track cassette machine. I master onto an Amstrad stereo cassette deck with adjustable levels.
Quite simply I dont really have any equipment, but I dont let that stop me! I dont even have a computer, I'm typing this on a dreich p*ssing wet day at the library in Carluke, my car wisnae working and I'd to get the bus from Dunwonkin'.
Recently I've been given a £10 charity shop upgrade by General S: Cambridge Series audio amp, Teac twin cassette and a Zoom rack-mounted reverb unit. Coooor.
Anything else...?
Favourite lyrics ever...
"Men let your wallets flop out
And Women open your purses" Don Van Vliet

"Twa roarin' haunfu's, an'a dod
I'd nudge it in fou, rarely.." Robert Burns

Other Influences... Anne and Laura Brand, Mary Marquis, Francis de la Tour, Kirsty Young, Empire Stores Catalogues (circa.1975)