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New Captain Wilberforce YouTube channel

May 11, 2014
It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally got around to creating a Captain Wilberforce YouTube…
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IPO festival date

April 28, 2014
After a year off in 2013 I’m going to be playing the International Pop Overthrow…
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Recording new songs

February 21, 2014
Slowly but surely we’re getting the new songs recorded, hampered only by my insistence on…
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Who’s to blame for lack of “brave, experimental” music?

January 12, 2014
Music Week have highlighted the old perennial argument again (http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/poll-is-the-music-industry-s-output-largely-formulaic-and-predictable/057240) : According to Island records’ Jon…
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Happy new year!

January 1, 2014
New songs soon, promise. More recording sessions this week. All the best for 2014!…
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My favourite songs of the year

December 24, 2013
I’ve picked my top 5 songs of the year – No. 5 is Speedy Ortiz…
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Last call on Download codes…

December 8, 2013
I have 22 album download codes left (see below Nov 29th) – if you’d like…
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Send me some music!

November 30, 2013
As you may have noticed, alongside the writing, performing and recording songs, I also write…
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Free download codes!

November 29, 2013
Christmas is looming like a great big credit card bill on the horizon.  Only a…
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Thanks for the thumbs up!

November 26, 2013
Thanks to everyone who got in touch to let me know what they thought of…
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24 hours and counting

November 21, 2013
You’ve got 24 hours left to take advantage of the free / pay what you…
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Work in Progress

November 19, 2013
We’ve been working hard (no really) trying to get new songs recorded over the last…
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Website Makeover today!

November 19, 2013
Finally… and not unlike the dawn of a new epoch, the Captain Wilberforce website, CaptainWilberforce.com,  is getting…
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Gigs!

August 16, 2013
So, the Galtres festival has finally popped its head over the horizon – we’ll be…
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Big news!

July 3, 2013
As always, I haven’t bothered to give you all the minutiae of what the band…
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Rehearsals

April 3, 2013
We’re now in the process of rehearsing to record the new tunes. Still not 100%…
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2013

January 5, 2013
Well Happy New Year everyone! Fingers crossed there will be a new Captain Wilberforce album…
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Photos from the Radio 2 session

April 28, 2012
We’re still waiting to get our official ‘with Dermot’ photo, but here are a few…
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