respect and muchos love goes out to singers,songwriters, composers, troubadours,boobadores,lager lovers, storytellers,hurdy gurdy, musical saw and egg slicers, pretty ladies just the right side of sanity,plain ladies who laugh like sid james, nice boys, quick thinking batmen,hillman imps, casio keyboards with tango/cha cha/disco programmed drumbeats, walking not running unless chased by wild far far apart eyed cornish cujos, strawberry mini-milks, Aston Villa fc,castles, steam engines, bridges, philosophers,scholars, buddhists, chimneys, historians, seascapes,rockin' with rioja (head to toe),snogging, chelsea buns,carrot cake,cornish heavy cake and then more snogging,qualcast lawnmowers, the smell of freshly creosoted fences, freshly baked bread (easy on the creosote), birdsong, sun-arise early in da morning,the autumn glow & getting a whiff of night scented stock, those winter high tides,Torquay United, Marillion fans (shed your anoraks stand tall and be counted!) Dundee FC.....more music, muzik, muzak!
any/all peeps who are sane-ish, sorted, shiny, sometimes sozzled, often silly, who carry a song in their heart, a skip in their step, a drink in their hand, ostensibly good souls, not arse souls, peeps who can walk the line without the need to snort it :-P
Blondie,Deborah Harry,The Clash,Gang of Four,Kate Bush, Melanie Garside,Maple Bee, Huski,Goldfrapp, Kirsty MacColl, Black Box Recorder, Sarah Nixey,The Reels, Garbage,Dubstar, Marillion,Lisa Germano, Peaches,Wire, T-Rex, Electric Light Orchestra,Tubeway Army,Gary Numan, Noosha Fox, Pavement,Kraftwerk, Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, Interpol, The Slits, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Ooberman,Roxy Music, My Ruin,Echo and the Bunnymen, Altered Images, Cardigans,Elvis Presley, Soft Cell, Richard Hawley, Chris Isaak,My Bloody Valentine,Joy Division, New Order,Led Zeppelin,Bluetones,Gene,Talk Talk,The Handsome Family, Kristin Hersh, Patti Smith,Glen Campbell, early Simple Minds, Sisters of Mercy,Jeff Buckley, Ed Harcourt, Roddy Frame, Edwyn Collins, The Mission, The Smiths, Morrissey,The Cooper Temple Clause, Steve Earle, Neil Young, the Beach Boys, Ultravox,John Foxx, Ministry, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Fall, The Associates,Betty Blowtorch,Mortiis,Aztec Camera, Keane,Nik Kershaw, Cocteau Twins, Saint Etienne, Chic, Earth Wind & Fire, K C & The Sunshine Band, Abba, The Sundays, 10,000 Maniacs,Adam and the Ants, Muse, Radiohead, The Blue Nile, Martin Stephenson,Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, David Bowie, Wreckless Eric,The Last Town Chorus,Iggy Pop, 2 Many DJs,Soulwax, Squeeze, Stevie Wonder,Donna Summer, 70s disco studio 54 era, XTC,Parliament,Africa Bambaataa,Cabaret Voltaire, KMFDM, Jurgen Engler,Project Pitchfork,Rammstein,White Zombie,Sonic Youth,Buzzcocks, Magazine, Television, The Ronettes, Phil Spector (minus firearms), King Tubby,Steel Pulse,Bob Marley,GU Medicine, Big Audio Dynamite,Grace Jones,Shamen,Prodigy, Specials, Madness, 2Tone, Dexys Midnight Runners,Simon and Garfunkel, Rush,Yes,Jon and Vangelis,Siouxsie and the Banshees,Pulp,The Cult,PIL,The Doors,Genesis, Dead Kennedys, Icicle Works,Pink Floyd,Alien Sex Fiend,The Stranglers,Undertones,The Damned,The Ruts,Dolly Parton,Matt Monro,Thin Lizzy,James Taylor,Maedieval Babes,Carpenters,Roy Orbison,Everly Brothers,The Bee Gees, The Platters,10cc, 70s punk/new wave,80s goth,90s indie.Maurice Jarre, John Barry,Edward Elgar,Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius,Eric Satie,Claude Debussy,Edvard Grieg,Sibelius,Dvorak, ennio morricone, john williams, classic british movie scores, chamber,monastic,gregorian, baroque and roll music.
Goodbye Mr Chips,Great Expectations,Ryan's Daughter, Jackie Brown,The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Man Who would be King,Dog Soldiers,This Happy Breed,The Postman always Rings twice (original Lana Turner/John Garfield),The Trouble with Harry,Samson and Delilah,Room at the Top, Ben Hur,The Graduate,Brief Encounter, The 39 Steps, Daredevil, Batman, The Medusa Touch, Broken Flowers, Dunston Checks In, One Night in McCools, Grosse Point Blank, Dog Day Afternoon, American Beauty, Ed Wood, Dr No, She, Stop Making Sense, Rumble Fish, Blair Witch Project, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Ring of Bright Water, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Psycho, Room at the Top,Bubba Ho-tep,American Werewolf in London,Saturday Night Fever,Platoon, The Lady Vanishes, Apocolypse Now, Dog Day Night,Appollo 13,Shaft,The Time Machine (original),I Capture the Castle, Betty Blowtorch and Her Amazing True Life Adventures, The Life of Brian, Phone Booth,Blade, Resident Evil, Fargo,A Man for All Seasons,12 Angry Men,Jesus of Nazareth,The 3 burials of Estrada Melquiades,Zulu, The Dambusters, Gladiator,Van Helsing, Edward Scissorhands,Labyrinth (for sentimental reasons, aah dance magic dance :) ), Wuthering Heights, Midnight Cowboy, Midnight Express, The Great Escape, A Matter of Life and Death, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Educating Rita, Badlands, Shadowlands, Bonnie and Clyde, Kindhearts and Coronets,School for Scoundrels (orig), Way Out West, The Browning Papers, The Ladykillers, Strictly Ballroom,A Private Function, Nannie McPhee, Cujo.
Flog it,Most Haunted,docu's and anything on the History channel, Restoration,Kojak, Monk, Match of the Day, Robin Hood, Cadfael,Man in a Suitcase, Allo Allo, Blackadder, Dinnerladies,Lovejoy, Watercolour Challenge, Bullseye,Elmo's World, Dog Borstal, Dog the Bounty Hunter,Porridge, The Clangers,The Herbs,The Flumps,anything by Oliver Postgate, Chigley,Trumpton and Camberwick Green, Mr Benn, Wil'O the Wisp,Fingerbobs,Mary Mungo and Midge,Indigo Pipkins, Crystal Tips and Alistair and the whole 70s/80s childrens tv genre,60s tv series Robinson Crusoe, Colin Fry's 6th Sense.
Elmore Leonard-Rum Punch and every book he's ever written,Love for Lydia-H E Bates, The Well of Loneliness-Radclyfe Hall,Cider with Rosie-Laurie Lee,Rip it Up-Simon Reynolds,Hound of the Baskervilles-Arthur Conan Doyle........Thomas Hardy,Charles Dickens,Oscar Wilde,William Somerset Maughan, J B Priestley, Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte,31 songs - Nick Hornby so many more.....ooh and Ira Levin - A Kiss Before Dying, an indepth study in sociapathic behaviour written in 1956, an extraordinarily fab book.
Deborah Harry,Dennis Mortimer,The Beach Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Hannah Hauxwell, Simon and Garfunkel,First World War Poets,Anne Boleyn,Telly Savalas, Cathy Dennis, William Shatner,Rennie and Brett Sparks,Gary Numan, Kirsty MacColl, Raquel Welch, Oliver Postgate,Alan Titschmarsh, my great friend Chaka Khan aka Zoe, Pam Grier, Winston Churchill, Diane Lane, Giorgio Moroder,Don and Phil Everly, Wurzel Gummidge, Dan Cruikshank, Morph,the Clangers,Samuel Coleridge, Melanie Garside, Grandad Flump and his Flumpet,the marvellous mechanical mouse organ, Leonard Cohen,Oscar the Grouch, Topcat and Benny the Ball,Tom and Jerry,Edward Elgar,Tony Hart,Jon Culshaw, Rachel Malloch on the football pitch, Marti Caine,Difford and Tilbrook,David Bowie,Monet,Bosch, Munch, LS Lowry, Steve Austin, Brian Cant, Bert and Ernie,Maid Marian,Ivor Cutler,Arienne Forster,Christopher Lee,The Two Ronnies,Rev Ted Chippington,Tairrie B,Lindsay Wagner,the Brontes,Twm Shon Caite,Captain Robert Falcon Scott,Robert the Bruce,Sir Thomas More,Confuscus,The Goodies,Karen Carpenter,Sid James,Victoria Wood,Kate Bush,Boedicea,Fred Dibnah,Mr Troughton my high school english teacher,Soo the panda from the Sooty Show,Jon Pertwee,Burt Bacharach,Ennio Morricone,John Barry,Lady Godiva,Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maya Angelou, Roy Orbison,Elvis Presley,Maurice Jarre,Richard Bradford,Gordon and Margaret Lightfoot,Ron Grainer, Derek Jacobi, Patrick Stewart,Isambard Kingdom Brunel,Claude Debussy, Ron Saunders,Gordon Cowans,Paul McGrath,Peter Withe, Alan McInally, Gareth Barry, Ian Botham, Warwickshire Cricket Club, all my friends, all my girlfriends who I have loved and lost and those I will love in the future, anyone in a band who puts the effort in to encompass an original sound...influences notwithstanding...with good vocals, kalishnikov keyboards, distorted guitar noize, a busy fingers bassist and some muscular drumming but not a Cadbury's goldbug hairy guerilla variety.and last but most definitely not least......my mum.