Garnet South Mimms

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Member Since: 8/11/2006
Band Members: Mitchel Devastation, Garnet South Mimms and Raz.
Influences: The 1960s: My Brothers Stephen and Doug, cousins Lorraine and Alison, Rolf Harris, Flanders & Swann, Spike Milligan, Kenny Everett...The 1970s: (takes deep breath) John Peel, schoolmates Stu, Paul & Nicole. Friends Paul and Jane. Humour courtesy of Monty Python, The Bonzos, Neil Innes, The Rutles. Soul and funk c/o James Brown, The Fatback Band, Kool & The Gang, The Chairmen Of The Board, Stevie Wonder, Ramsey Lewis, Brothers Johnson, Fela Kuti. Rock by Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Ursa Major, Stray, Montrose, Titanic, Babe Ruth, Bebop Deluxe, Frank Zappa. Prog heroes Todd Rundgren, Arthur Brown, Curved Air, PFM, Le Orme, Tasavallan Presidentti, Focus, Tonto's Expanding Head Band, Camel (their first album is the best album by anyone ever). Krautrock favourites Neu! Michael Rother, Guru Guru, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, Emtidi, Wallenstein, Novalis, Jane, Ash Ra Tempel. Roots rockers thanks to King Tubby, Big Youth, Dillinger, Trinity, Prince Far I, Burning Spear, Upsetter, Dennis Alcapone, Tapper Zukie, Dennis Bovell. Soccer heroes: Tony Currie, Colin Bell, Mike Channon, Bobby & Georgie (saw them both play) Ray Kennedy, John Sissons. Punk & New Wave Faves The Damned, Models, Johnny Moped, The Horizontal Bulgarians (well, naturally), Killing Joke, Young Marble Giants, Legs Akimbo, The Mutant Babies (they had their moments), Big In Japan, Kleenex, Magazine, The Desperate Bicycles (who were more important than The Pistols to some of us).Naughty! The eighties: Debussy, Faure, Satie... (er, the NINETEEN eighties?) Sorry, yeah. Prokofiev, Arnold Bax, Janacek, Bach, Mozart... not a lot else, maybe The Beloved, Stone Roses, Adrian Sherwood, Fugazi, Steve Reich.The 1990s: Music suddenly got better didn't it! Cheb Khaled, Coldcut, Loop Guru, Sabres Of Paradise, Underworld, The Orb, Orbital, Mr. Scruff, Nightmares On Wax, LTJ Bukem, PFM, DJ Pulse, Colin Dale & Colin Faver on Kiss FM when it was cool, Half Man Half Biscuit, That Dog, Cornershop.Since 2000: Raz head mostly up own musical arse but today i shall be coming over to your MySpace to listen to your music.
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Type of Label: Indie