Pop music! As you may see my conception of pop may be rather warped... Making pop music (of a warped variety on a variety of warped instruments) Dancing to pop music Writing about pop musicI do like other things too, such as:The films of Billy Wilder and Jean Luc Godard Books Art galleries Asian and Mediterranean food The Scottish Highlands Southern Spain Beaches (but not the film Beaches, god no!) Cute indie girls
Robert Wyatt, Anna Karina, Brian Eno, Alisdair Gray, Francoise Hardy, Richard Thompson, Shirley Collins, Willie Nelson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Caetano Veloso, Wayne Coyne
Robert Wyatt, Beach Boys, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, Brian Eno, Can, The Slits, Stevie Wonder, Richard & Linda Thompson, Fairport Convention, Shirley Collins, Deerhoof, Animal Collective, Velvet Underground, Vialka, David Bowie, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Daniel Johnston, No Age, The Beatles, ABBA, Sparks, Flaming Lips, Syd Barrett, Hank Williams, Giant Sand, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Mika Miko, The Fall, Leonard Cohen, Gillian Welch, Black Flag, Black Dice, Black Sabbath, Emmylou Harris, Anne Briggs, Nic Jones, Galaxie 500, The Beatles, The Rutles, John Coltrane, The Zombies, Wu Tang, Pavement, Sun Ra, Dick Gaughan, Scritti Politti, Will Oldham, Pharoah Sanders, Cat Power, Animal Collective, Louis Armstrong Hot 5 and Hot 7, Hawk & A Hacksaw, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden People's Liberation Orchestra, Jesus & Mary Chain, Go Betweens, Scatter, Nalle, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Pastels, Tenniscoats, Kazumi Nikaido, Vashti Bunyan, Silver Jews, Public Enemy, Alisdair Roberts, Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Pentangle, Company Flow, Cannibal Ox, Royal Trux, James Yorkston, John Cale, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Neko Case, Bob Dylan, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Yo La Tengo, Pastels , Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, Lucky Luke, Royal We, Hookers Green No1, Richard Youngs, Neutral Milk Hotel, David Bowie, Kevin Ayers, Soft Machine, Dennis Wilson, Wilco, Eric B & Rakim, REM, Replacements, Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Afrirampo, Bonzo Doo Dah Dog Band, Hidden Cameras, Magnetic Fields, Dirtbombs, Detroit Cobras, White Stripes, Scott Walker, Lovin' Spoonful, The Kinks, Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy, Final Fantasy, Herman Dune, Love, Otis Redding, John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Acid Mothers Temple, Comets on Fire, 13t Floor Elevators, Pulp, Joanna Newsom, Talking Heads, Neu!, Harmonia, Dinosaur Jr, Aretha Franklin, Mission of Burma, Sebadoh, Associates, Orange Juice, The Gossip, Josef K, Dusty Springfield, Fire Engines, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Led Zeppelin, Moby Grape, Howlin' Wolf, The Band, Muddy Waters, Son House, Roy Orbison, Charley Rich, Jonathan Richman, Karen Dalton, The Pop Group, PiL, Arthur Russel, Selda, Butthole Surfers, Nels Cline & Whiteout, Flipper, Meat Puppets, Jean Claude Vannier, Faust, Gay Against You, Tattie Toes, ANYTHING ON FINDERS KEEPERS
The Apartment, Purple Rose of Cairo (top prize if you recognise my signature quote), Week End, Vivre Sa Vie, Masculin Feminin, Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard, Rushmore, Annie Hall, The Last Detail, Fitzcarraldo, The Piano Teacher, All About My Mother, Pandora's Box, Le Mepris, Bill & Ted, Gregory's Girl, Harold & Maude, Philadelphia Story, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Crimes & Misdemeanours, Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove,
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Simpsons (up to about 97), Larry Sanders, Seinfeld, I'm Alan Partridge, Spaced, The Office,
William Faulkner, Alisdair Gray, Richard Brautigan, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, James Hogg, Jonathan Swift, Geoffry Chaucer, Cervantes, Milan Kundera, F Scott Fitzgerald, John Kennedy Toole, Truman Capote, Paul Auster, Kurt Vonnegut, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Lester Bangs
Overall inspiration: Robert Wyatt, Alisdair Gray, Shirley Collins, Jean Luc Godard, my grandparents. Guitar geek: Richard Thompson, Neil Young, Robbie Robertson, Ira Kaplan, Curtis Mayfield, Carrie Brownstein, Thurston n Lee, James Burton, Robert Fripp, Lindsay Buckingham, Tony Iommi, Jimi, Eddie Hazel, David Fair, Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, Peter Buck in the 80s, Zoot Horn Rollo, Marc Ribot, Johnny Ramone, Keith Levene, Bob Stintson, D Boon Other: David Attenborough