Member Since: 1/29/2007
Band Members: Just Me... Colin J. S.
Influences: I suppose my influences must be more or less the same as the artists I like to listen to, although perhaps there are a few that I don't really listen to much but respect as creators of music. Here's a sample:
Pop/Electro/Punk
Kraftwerk /
Mike Oldfield /
David Bowie /
Marc Bolan /
the Sex Pistols /
the Stranglers /
Siouxsie and the Banshees /
Reggae/Ska
Prince Buster /
Desmond Dekker /
the Skatalites /
Dave and Ansel Collins /
Jimmy Cliff /
Prince Far I /
Linton Kwesi Johnson /
Dennis Brown /
Black Slate /
Misty in Roots /
Bob Marley and the Wailers /
the Specials (formerly the Special AKA) /
Damien Marley
And as you may have noticed a classical element creeping in to some of my tunes I ought to mention the classical composers that I like best:
Ludwig van Beethoven / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Johann Sebastian Bach / Edvard Grieg / Gustav Holst / Johann Strauss the Younger
There's a lot of traditional music around whose composers are lost in the mists of time... great stuff... for instance, The Irish Rover... performed most famously by The Pogues & the Dubliners, but does anyone know its origins?
Sounds Like: I leave that as an exercise for the listener. If you tell me, I may quote you here.
"kind of a sex pistols irish dance" - Lee^
outta dis worl! - Sista Warrior
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None