My Sad Captains are a British five-piece rock and folk band originally from London, and currently signed to Bella Union.

The band was formed in 2004 by frontman Ed Wallis after his previous outfit, which included Nick Goss, had dissolved, after the two had moved down to London to attend university.

[2] He realised that the tracks would work better with a full band set-up and reconnected with Goss, while recruiting Jack Swayne on bass and Ed's brother Jim Wallis on drums.

[8] The band opened for The Sea and Cake on a UK tour in June 2018; their last live show so far was in October that year.

The band's name comes from a poem by the Anglo-American poet Thom Gunn, Wallis explained that he decided 'to steal someone else's idea rather than think of my own'.