Member Since: 11/02/2007
Band Members: Bad Alan: - guitars, programming, vocals, bass guitar, typewriter noises, sound of one hand clapping (slowly).
Influences: mum, dad, tomfoolery, umberto eco, michael bentine's potty time, pier bucci, bent, lemon jelly, harry nilsson, puffy amiyumi, gilbert o sullivan, juana molina, country joe and the fish, sleepy jackson, jay jay johansson, smog, kate bush, mark and lard, arcade fire, dream academy, steve harley, excerpt from a teenage opera, malcolm mclaren's waltz darling and revenge of the flowers, duke special, magnetic fields, keren ann, ed harcourt, british sea power, william shatner, lindsey buckingham, omd, half cousin, gravenhurst, portishead, michel gondry, grandaddy, kevin rowland, polysics, mary, mungo and midge, peter gabriel, tom chester, roland barthes, roy harper, scritti politti, marc bolan, clinic, mercury rev, the word 'hubris', melting pot music, m83, cass mccombs, the double deckers, john lennon, the theme to white horses, james yorkston, jeff buckley, eliot kennedy, scott walker, tight sweaters on female icons of the 1950s, pipkins, babybird, flaming lips, the concretes, nick heyward, the sounds of monsterism island, stan getz, lee hazelwood, sky (children's telly), jarvis cocker, the sweet, david cassidy, animal collective, gary glitter, sparklehorse, santa sprees, dj sharkey, evil knievel, beach boys, psapp, cowboy joe, gene kelly, joseph k, sid james, beck, peter hammill, van der graf generator, the persuaders, nick heywood, books with dinosaurs in them, portrait of jenny, christmas songs, children of the stones, subtle, four tet, dangermouse (producer - not the mouse) blur, the beatles, david bowie, the triffids, jean baudrillard, kitsune records, louis althusser, andré benjamin/outkast, bob hope, high school musical, jesus christ superstar, pilot, f scott fitzgerald, thirty pounds of bone, robinson crusoe (tv series + theme music), theme from mash, david soul, hectors house, cat stevens, paperlace, lieutenant pigeon, walt disney, action man (with realistic hair and gripping hands), time tunnel, georgian house, the avengers, big valleys, ben rinnes, snow, single malt-whisky, sheffield, broomhill, record collector, crookes valley park, the hadfield, walkley, a day at the beach and women with no clothes on
Sounds Like: I suppose it might sound a little like a fairly northern Flaming Lips, Babybird, Stephen Duffy, Divine Comedy, John Lennon, My Morning Jacket, Grandaddy, Jarvis Cocker, Pulp, Lightning Seeds, Sparklehorse, Peter Gabriel, Jim Noir, Adem, Lindsey Buckingham, Eliot Kennedy, Sugar Babes, Kylie Minogue, The Monkees, Liam Frost, Mull Historical Society, Girls Aloud.
Type of Label: Major