Music:
Member Since: 5/5/2005
Band Website: dereckhiggins.com
Band Members: Son Ambulance Dereck Higgins Band
RAF
The Family Radio
Flamethrower
The Pat Higgins TrioPaddy O'Furniture
Influences: This is really more of a partial list of the music I love: The Beatles, Genesis, Ornette Coleman, Meshuggah, Seigen Ono, Ghost, Kate Bush, Terje Rypdal, Neil Young, Brian Eno, Durutti Column, REM, Ali Farka Toure, Peter Gabriel, Circle, Eric Dolphy, Yukihiro Takahashi, Eberhard Weber, Able Tasmans, Faust, Can, Ravi Shankar, The Go-Betweens, Bjork, The Yardbirds, Fiery Furnaces, Miles Davis, Hot Chip, Broadcast, John Coltrane, The Damned, Catherine Wheel, George Harrison, My Bloody Valentine, Bobby Womack, Roxy Music, Radiohead, Sly & The Famly Stone, Gentle Giant, Bloc Party, Haruomi Hosono, Dollar Brand, Mew, Porcupine Tree, Joachim Kuhn, AC/DC, Charles Mingus, Akir Ussein, Family, Hawkwind, Oliver Lake, Kraftwerk, Fennesz, Scott Walker, Akiko Yano, Laraaji, Julian Cope, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sunn O))), Stereolab, Massive Attack, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Trey Gunn, Toumani Diabate, Devo, Magazine, Tilly & The Wall, Chrome, Slowdive, Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, Mick Karn, Ultra Vivid Scene, Dead Can Dance, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Robert Normandeau, AMM, Soft Machine, Bright Eyes, Strawbs, Ministry, Dino Felipe, Pentangle, KMFDM, Egg, Gong, John Tingle, Allan Holdsworth, Cabaret Voltaire, The House of Love, Cat Stevens, Mark Burgess, Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra, Tony Levin, George Russell, Harmonia, Orenda Fink, Xymox, Culture, Lycia, Matching Mole, Gila, Paul McCartney, Die Kreuzen, Slayer, The Chills, Azure Ray, Woven Hand, The Chameleons, David Bowie, MC5, Isaac Hayes, Steve Lacy, Funkadelic, Charlie Parker, Prince, John Zorn, Yes, Bad Brains, The Stranglers, King Crimson, Pulsar, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Throbbing Gristle, Bomis Prendin, Wire, Joy Division, Seal, XTC, Todd Rundgren, Anthony Phillips, Donovan, Jimi Hendrix, Bloodrock, Led Zeppelin, Van Der Graaf Generator, Embryo, Magma, Art Zoyd, Henry Cow, Hector Zazou, Pete Namlook, Autechre, Shivkumar Sharma, Mouse On Mars, James Brown, David Sylvian, 13th Floor Elevators, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Sisters of Mercy, Black Uhuru, Cheb I Sabbah, Abyssynians, U2, Carlinhos Brown, Misfits, Loop, Klaus Schulze, Pierre Henry, Morton Subotnick, Second Hand, PFM, Captain Beyond, The Residents, YMO, Sun Electric, Incredible String Band, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Cibo Matto, Ride, Ash Ra Tempel, Doves, Miss Kitten, The White Birch, In Gowan Ring, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tortoise, Albert Ayler, Joni Mitchell, The Young Gods, The Faint, Popol Vuh, Amon Duul II, The Roots, Wolfgang Dauner, Paul Bley, Frank Zappa, Bill Nelson, Steve Hackett, Geri Allen, Beth Orton, Boredoms, Lush, Sigur Ros, The Moody Blues, Mudvayne, Ali Akbar Khan,Japan, Deerhoof, Ian Brown, Fred Frith, McCoy Tyner, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Gus Gus, Neu!, Guru Guru and all of the artists I associate with here at my space. Contrary to what the radio plays there is a lot of really fine music happening right now everywhere.
Sounds Like: Dereck Higgins
Digital Sex
Duruttti Column
Record Label: DVH Recordings, Public Eyesore, Coco Art
Type of Label: None
