Peter Capaldi

Born on 14 April 1958 in Glasgow, Peter Capaldi is a Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist best known for playing Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It and the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who. He is also an Oscar winner — his short film Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life took the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1993. As an art student at Glasgow School of Art, he fronted the punk act The Dreamboys, whose lineup included future comedian and CBS talk-show host Craig Ferguson.

In 2019, Dr Robert invited Peter to a Monks Road recording session. Watching the musicians work, something drove him to write a song on the spot — and when the band played it back, he knew immediately he wanted to do it again. In 2020, he sang lead vocals on "If I Could Pray" for the Monks Road Social album Humanism. Working remotely through lockdown, he and Dr Robert sent tracks back and forth between them until they had enough for an album.

His debut solo record, St. Christopher, was released on Monks Road Records in 2021 — produced by Dr Robert and critically received as a genuinely surprising and accomplished debut. A second album, Sweet Illusions, again produced by Dr Robert, followed in 2025. One of those rare stories where the music found its moment at exactly the right time