Member Since: 02/09/2006
Band Website: www.danlenorecords.com
Band Members: Just me permanently. Apart from the solo stuff, I work with the Blue Aeroplanes, Oyster Ceilidh Band, Caroline Trettine, Pete Astor, and with Paul Wigens (for an entire album!); with Mirabeau, there are poets Richard Price and Nancy Campbell, chanteuse Carline Trettine and me; with the Sussex Pistols, there are Vic Smith, Tina Smith, Bing Lyle, Ben Paley, Dave Levett and me; and with Duck Soup, you get Dan Quinn, Adam Bushell and me. The Loftus Road Sheiks are Ron Gould, Jacob Zoob and yours truly, while the family band is made up of the family (duh), excluding the cats.
Influences: This one could fill cyberspace. In no particular order: John Fahey and the Takoma guitarists; the Band; Ronnie Lane; Dillard and Clark; the Byrds; the Kinks (Dave Davies' early stuff is really great, too); the Weather Prophets; Shirley Collins; Ed Askew; David Ackles; early Procol Harum; Eck Robertson; early Fairport Convention; Mike Nesmith; Cantonese traditional music; Wizz Jones; Pearls Before Swine; Sibelius; Vaughan Williams; Joseph Taylor; Charley Patton; the Horse Flies; the Adverts; Gary Lucas; Firehouse Five Plus Two; Gus Elen; Charles Whittle; REM; Richard Thompson; Tom Verlaine; High Plains Drifters; Dan Leno; Stereolab; Regina Spektor; Harris Newman; the Perry County Music Makers; Michael O'Shea. And many many others: sometimes just one chord will do it...
Sounds Like: I AM ABOUT MY ACT, MY STRANGE ACT, MY WORK, MY STRANGE WORK, THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL HEAR IT, HIS EARS SHALL TINGLE.
Record Label: Dan Leno Records
Type of Label: Indie