Dan Melchior is a singer/songwriter/guitarist who grew up in Shepperton

Shepperton

Shepperton is a town in the borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, England. To the south it is bounded by the river Thames at Desborough Island and is bisected by the M3 motorway...

, Surrey

Surrey

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, (just outside London

London

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), England

England

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 and is often labeled a 'garage rock

Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

' musician.
He has appeared on 30+ recordings as a solo performer, a collaborator with Billy Childish

Billy Childish

Billy Childish is an English artist, painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist...

 and Holly Golightly

Holly Golightly

Holly Golightly is a British singer-songwriter. Her mother christened her after the protagonist in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Her musical style ranges from garage rock to R&B.-Musical career:...

 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 and the next two on In the Red Records

In the Red Records

In the Red Records is an independent record label in Los Angeles, CA formed in 1991 by Larry Hardy. It is known for hosting garage punk related bands on its label....

, they also recorded a number of singles and ep's for other labels. During their tenure as a band they supported The White Stripes

The White Stripes

The White Stripes was an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of the songwriter Jack White and drummer Meg White . Jack and Meg White were previously married to each other, but are now divorced...

, The Fall, Mudhoney, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Interpol

Interpol

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, in shows around the U.S.A before splitting up in 2004.

Since then Melchior has released 3 solo albums, and appeared on the Jandek

Jandek

Jandek is the musical project of an anonymous outsider musician who operates out of Houston, Texas. Since 1978, Jandek has self-released over 60 albums of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk and blues songs without ever granting more than the occasional interview or providing any biographical...

 tribute album 'Down in a Mirror'. His music continues to evolve and is very much a separate entity from some of his earlier blues based work, showing a definite influence of more experimental bands such as The Homosexuals

The Homosexuals

The Homosexuals are a punk band formed in 1978. They were born out of the ashes of The Rejects.- History :The Rejects were formed at Goldsmith's College in South London in 1976, when Bruno Wizard recruited a young songwriter named Ian Kane to help express his disquiet with the modern world and...

 and The Fall, as well as a healthy dose of absurdism of the very English type typified by the work of Vivian Stanshall

Vivian Stanshall

Vivian Stanshall was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.-The great...

 and Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett

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.

Melchior has been a permanent resident in the United States

United States

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 for the last 6 years - settling first in Manhattan

Manhattan

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, New York

New York

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 with his wife Letha Rodman, and more recently re-locating to Durham

Durham, North Carolina

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, North Carolina

North Carolina

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.

Melchior continues to write and record prolifically. His new project/band is called Dan Melchior und Das Menace, and there have already been six singles, a 12 inch ep and two album released under this new name, with a third LP on its way.

Album discography

• Devil in the Flesh (1998) with Billy Childish
  Billy Childish
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• This Love is Real (1999)
• Oldtime-Futureshock (2000)
• Heavy Dirt (2001)
• Desperate Little Town (2001) with Holly Golightly
  Holly Golightly
  Holly Golightly is a British singer-songwriter. Her mother christened her after the protagonist in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Her musical style ranges from garage rock to R&B.-Musical career:...
  
  
• Bitterness, Spite, Rage & Scorn (2002)
• This is Not the Medway Sound (2003)
• The Covert Stomp 1993-2002 (2004)
• O, Clouds Unfold! (2004/released 2009)
• Hello, I'm Dan Melchior (2005)
• Fire Breathing Clones on Cellular Phones (2006)
• Christmas for the Crows (2008)
• Thankyou Very Much (2009)
• Obscured by Fuzz (2009)
• Visionary Pangs (2010)
• Dan Melchior Und Das Menace (s/t tape released by night people) (2010)
• King of Sheep (2011)
• Assemblage Blues (2011)

Discography of singles/extended play records

• Your love is mine/Laughing to keep from crying (1997) with Holly Golightly
  Holly Golightly
  Holly Golightly is a British singer-songwriter. Her mother christened her after the protagonist in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Her musical style ranges from garage rock to R&B.-Musical career:...
  
   and Bruce Brand
• Wrong inside/Crow Jane (1999)
• Instant love/That's no way to get along (Robert Wilkins
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  ) (2000)
• Bad for my soul/Art Machine (2000)
• Andover, Duluth, London EP (2002)
• Garage Obituary 45- Remote control/Like a Fox (2003)
• Gudbye ta Sluggo EP (CD only) (2005)
• Span of Attention/To the River (2006)
• Your Lousy Floor EP (2006)
• Elev to Mezz/Gravy Train and Ice Cream Truck/Hippy! (2007)
• The Pink Scream ep (2007)
• Back in the village/Dog love (2007)
• Madame nhu/So real (2007)
• Stacked Sally Plummer - appears on The World's Lousy With Ideas 5 (2008)
• She's so Blank/Certainly 14th st (2008)
• Mr Oblivion/Piledriver Nitemare #2 (2009)
• The Post Office Line/Tourists (2009)
• Terrible shame/Ghost of a flea pt 2(2009)
• Dim are the lights/I don't wanna be nice (2009)
• Daylight robbery/A delicate genius backstage (split single with the Fresh and Onlys) (2009)
• Horrorshow (split single with The Spits) (2009)
• Counting calories at the last supper (split single with the Pheromoans) (2010)