Music:
Member Since: 5/12/2005
Band Website: afharrold.co.uk
Influences: In no particular order two cornerstones: Noel Coward & Frank Zappa.
Then some writers & performers: Jerome K. Jerome / J.R.R. Tolkien / Ted Hughes / Spike Milligan / Brian Patten / Anthony Burgess / Philip K. Dick / Leonard Cohen / Bertrand Russell / Iris Murdoch / Roger McGough / Adrian Henri / Norman MacCaig / Tove Jansson / John Donne / Douglas Dunn / the Beowulf author / Stevie Smith / Wallace Stevens / Douglas Adams / Petrarch / John Hegley / Monty Python's Flying Circus / A Bit Of Fry & Laurie / Garrison Keillor / Stephen Baxter / Bernard O'Donoghue / Arthur C. Clarke / Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Elizabeth Jennings / Olaf Stapledon / Plato / Socrates / Lucretius / William Blake / Richard Adams / William Cowper / Robert Falcon Scott / Apsley Cherry-Garrard / Robert Herrick / Pablo Neruda / Federico Garcia Lorca / Basho / Alan Moore / P.G. Wodehouse / Dame Judi Dench / Morecombe & Wise / Dino Buzzati / Robert M. Pirsig / Bernard Hoff / A.A. Milne / Barbara Firth / John Wagner / Alan Grant / Richard Scarry / Ivor Cutler / Nikolai Gogol / Joss Whedon / and others...
Then some musicians, bands & composers: Voice Of The Rain / Loudon Wainwright III / Tom Waits / Scott Walker / Fats Waller / Johnny Guitar Watson / Stephen Sondheim / XTC / Ruth Underwood / John Adams / George Antheil / Louis Armstrong / Patricia Barber / Barenaked Ladies / The Beautiful South / Bonzo Dog Band / Billy Bragg / Chas & Dave / The Cardigans / Leonard Cohen / Colorblind James Experience / Neil Hannon / Eric Dolphy / Lonnie Donegan / Emily Druce / George Duke / Ian Dury (& The Blockheads) / Bob Dylan / Earthling / Fascinating Aida / Fish / Ella Fitzgerald / Flotsam & Jetsam / Flanders & Swann / Jacques Brel / Jake Thackray / George Formby / Bob Geldof / W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan / Half Man Half Biscuit / Peter Warlock / Benjamin Britten / The Higsons / Benny Hill / Robyn Hitchcock / Jethro Tull / Philip Jeays / Mike Keneally / Ute Lemper / Peggy Lee / June Melby / Olivier Messiaen / Igor Stravinsky / Charles Mingus / Thelonious Monk / The Muffin Men / Rex Harrison / Conlon Nancarrow / Randy Newman / Earl Okin / John Otway / Arvo Part / Penguin Cafe Orchestra / Cole Porter / Prince / Project Adorno / Django Reinhardt / Scaffold / Siren Circus / Graham Fitkin / Allan Sherman / Victoria Wood / Arthur Askey / Suzanne Vega / and so on and so on...
And then all my friends, colleagues and acquaintances out there doing spoken word of any sort - I'm sure I've stolen something from all of you... so thanks.
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