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About Me

Lardy 15-year old joins Chesterfield band Zero Option, makes a few speedy demos in Handsworth, Sheffield with 155-year old pipe-smoker Ken Patten ('the Human League only had two strings on their bass when they came here'), loves the place, loves music, makes music, makes kids, loves kids, travels around a bit, avoids staying in any place longer than 12 months and eventually moves to the Highlands for a bit of fresh air and a bit of a change. All I need is the air that I breathe and a record bag full of impossibly catchy tunes. Isn't that what the Hollies said?

My Interests

Music:

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

My Blog

Life On Spars. As strange as it may sound, I'm actually from Hyde thirty years into our future

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