Member Since: 11/19/2006
Band Website: mickharvey.com
Band Members: of my live band are Rosie Westbrook (double bass), James Johnston (organ/guitar) and Thomas Wydler (drums)
Influences: General - Nina Simone, Nelson Algren, Orson Welles, Johnny Cash, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Ennio Morricone, Albert Einstein, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Flannery O'Connor, The Black Panthers, Jacques Becker, Arvo Pärt, Rodin, William Blake, Bernini, Bill Withers, Bernard Herrmann, Pete Dexter, Jules Dassin, Dollar Brand, Beethoven, Luis Buñuel, John Lee Hooker, Nabokov, Lee Hazlewood, Antonin Gaudi, Gil Evans, J.M.W.Turner, Goya, William Faulkner, Hank Williams, Michael Ondaatje, John Huston.............. Other early musical influences - Stones (67-72), Stooges, Velvet Underground, Dylan, Cohen, Neil Young, early Van Morrison, Suicide, Kraftwerk, 70's Bowie, early Roxy Music, T.Rex, The Doors, 80's Tom Waits, Patti Smith, The Loved Ones, The Easybeats, early Modern Lovers, Dave Brubeck, the Tom Jones TV Shows, Anglican Church Music....... Current stuff I listen to - Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Beth Gibbons, The Darling Downs, YeahYeahYeah's, White Stripes, Eleni Karaindrou, Mark Lanegan, lots of classical stuff, most of my friend's music, not my MySpace friends, my real ones......really! Junkyard-Live in '82
Sounds Like: On my player - "Everything is Fixed" (now downloadable) 'Slow-Motion-Movie-Star', an unreleased PJHarvey song, and 'Out of Time Man' all from the album 'Two of Diamonds' , released on April 23rd. "I Ate The Knife" is from the new Stagger Records release 'A Tribute to Rowland S.Howard'. ---------Videos I've uploaded - Anita Lane's "The World's a Girl" filmed by me in Essaouira, Morocco in 1994 from the album 'Dirty Pearl'."Intoxicated Man" and "Man Without A Home" shot live @ The Spanish Club, Melbourne in November 2006. "Hank Williams Said It Best" (2005),"Initials B.B."(1995) and featuring Anita Lane "Harley Davidson" (1995), the John Hillcoat directed "Jesus Almost Got Me" and since March 28th. "Do That Thing" from Sex O'Clock and "Photograph" from the upcoming 'Two of Diamonds'. The Next Man That I SeeThe World's A Girl
Record Label: mute records
Type of Label: Indie