Dan Melchior

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

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

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 EP (music CD)s 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.

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.

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