Dan Melchior


Dan Melchior is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, often labeled a garage rock musician. He has formed the named groups of musicians Broke Revue and Dan Melchior und Das Menace.
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Background

Melchior grew up in Shepperton, Surrey, just outside London, England.

Career

Broke Revue period

Melchior featured in 30 recordings as a solo performer, as a collaborator with Billy Childish and Holly Golightly and as a member of Dan Melchior's Broke Revue.
The Broke Revue released three albums, the first being on Sympathy for the Record Industry, the next two on In the Red Records. Their other works comprise singles and EPs for other labels. During their six touring years as a band they supported The White Stripes, The Fall, Mudhoney, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Interpol, in shows in the United States before splitting up in 2004.

Post 2004

After the split Melchior went on to produce further albums and appeared on the Jandek tribute album Down in a Mirror. His music has evolved significantly, to become a distant entity from some of his earlier blues-based work, showing a definite influence of more experimental bands such as The Homosexuals and The Fall, and some absurdist elements which have led to comparisons to compatriot exponents of that genre, Vivian Stanshall and Syd Barrett.
Melchior became a permanent resident in the United States in 1998 — first in Manhattan, New York with his wife Letha Rodman, followed by Durham, North Carolina.
Melchior continues to write and record prolifically in 2010 by which time he had established a project/band Dan Melchior und Das Menace. He has released six singles, a 12-inch ep and three LP albums.

Album discography

as Dan Melchior unless stated
  • Devil in the Flesh with Billy Childish
  • This Love is Real Dan Melchior's Broke Revue
  • Oldtime-Futureshock Dan Melchior's Broke Revue
  • Heavy Dirt Dan Melchior's Broke Revue
  • Desperate Little Town with Holly Golightly
  • Bitterness, Spite, Rage & Scorn Dan Melchior's Broke Revue
  • This is Not the Medway Sound
  • The Covert Stomp 1993-2002 Dan Melchior Featuring Bruno Merrick Jones
  • O, Clouds Unfold! Dan Melchior's Broke Revue
  • Hello, I'm Dan Melchior
  • Fire Breathing Clones on Cellular Phones
  • Christmas for the Crows Dan Melchior und das Menace
  • Thankyou Very Much Dan Melchior und das Menace
  • Obscured by Fuzz Dan Melchior und das Menace
  • Visionary Pangs Dan Melchior und das Menace
  • Dan Melchior Und Das Menace
  • King of Sheep
  • Assemblage Blues
  • Catbirds & Cardinals
  • Excerpts
  • The Backward Path
  • C.C.D.E Music
  • The Heron
  • K-85
  • At Home With The Lloyd Pack The Lloyd Pack
  • A Squirrel Could Never Be A Disappointment To Me
  • A Reverse Laurie Metcalf
  • Rodman Melchior Melchior Rodman
  • Slow Down Tiger
  • Rock And Roll
  • Live at Philadelphia Record Exchange
  • Hunger Dan Melchior und das Menace
  • All At Sea
  • Happiness is Over Rated
  • Australia's Big Things

Discography of singles/extended play records

  • Your love is mine/Laughing to keep from crying with Holly Golightly and Bruce Brand
  • Wrong inside/Crow Jane
  • Instant love/That's no way to get along
  • Bad for my soul/Art Machine
  • Andover, Duluth, London EP
  • Garage Obituary 45- Remote control/Like a Fox
  • Gudbye ta Sluggo EP
  • Span of Attention/To the River
  • Your Lousy Floor EP
  • Elev to Mezz/Gravy Train and Ice Cream Truck/Hippy!
  • The Pink Scream ep
  • Back in the village/Dog love
  • Madame nhu/So real
  • Stacked Sally Plummer - appears on The World's Lousy With Ideas 5 - Almost Ready Records
  • She's so Blank/Certainly 14th st - Almost Ready Records
  • Mr Oblivion/Piledriver Nitemare No. 2
  • The Post Office Line/Tourists - Columbus Discount Records
  • Terrible shame/Ghost of a flea pt 2
  • Dim are the lights/I don't wanna be nice - Convulsive Records
  • Daylight robbery/A delicate genius backstage
  • Horrorshow
  • Counting calories at the last supper
  • Red Nylon Valance/Dogbite Meltdown No. 2
  • YACHTS/Barry Mundane has plans/Stig and the Queefs