60s garage. Alison Mosshart. Bottles of gin. Bovril on toast. Bridges lit up. Brussels. Carousels. Chelsea Boots. Doisneau. Garth. Glasgow. Good lyrics. Green&Blacks cocoa. Jamie Hince. the Kinks. Liquorice. Mittens from Brick Lane. Malcolm MacDowell. Mint Choc Chip ice cream. Mods. Mugs from cities I love. Natalie Portman's face. Northern England. Old vinyl. Paris. Photo booths. Pointy shoes. Polaroids. Postcards. Pots of tea. Sincerity. "So far so good". Streetlamps. Twinings. Vincent Gallo’s red boots. Wine. Winter weather.
What's it going to be then, ey?
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THE TELLERS ♥ THE KINKS. 60s Garage/Psych/Beat and a bit of pop, 60s Girl Groups, Soul/Northern Soul, 70s Punk, Post Punk, New Wave, Blues, a bit of folk, Everything good from Detroit, Jazz Singers, Two-Tone/Ska, 50s Rock'n'Roll, Indie, Acoustic, Electro, Mod, Madchester, a little bit of Britpop for nostalgia's sake, anything from Liverpool that sounds a bit like The La's, Edith Piaf & anything French she approved of, 1930s-60s Hollywood Singers, all the best bands from now... My current dream lineup
Nouvelle Vague
The Duke Spirit
The Kills
BRMC
Arcade FireMy favourite all time songs.
My Little Red Book - Love
I'm a Good Woman - Barbara Lynn
Milk Cow Blues - The Kinks [BBC Sessions]
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine - Bob Dylan
Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby - The Crystals
Buffalo 66, A Clockwork Orange, A Bout De Souffle, La Haine, Rebel Without a Cause, If..., Harold and Maude, A Taste of Honey, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Stand By Me, Three Colours Blue/White/Red, Quadrophenia, East of Eden, A Hard Day's Night, Trainspotting, Amelie, Singin In The Rain, Bobby, Pan's Labyrinth, High Society, Withnail and I, Some Like It Hot, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ghost World, Il Postino, It's a Wonderful Life, O'Lucky Man, Donnie Darko, Somersault, High Fidelity, Empire Records, Blow-Up, The Neverending Story, Little Miss Sunshine, The Departed, The Kids Are Alright, The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, The Man With The Golden Arm, Anchors Aweigh, Rock'n'Roll High School, Britannia Hospital, Big Fish, Circus, Battle Royale, Saw, Almost Famous, 8 Mile, That Thing You Do, Dogville, Kes, His Girl Friday, and so on.
The Mighty Boosh, Spaced, The Young Ones, Jam, Big Train, Smack The Pony, Nathan Barley, Six Feet Under, Shameless, Father Ted, Los Dos Bros, Sex & the City...
George Orwell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Harold Pinter, Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg, Rimbaud, Simone DeBeauvoir, J.D.Salinger, Harper Lee, Angela Carter, Virginia Woolf, Rousseau, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Philip Larkin, Anthony Burroughs, Anais Nin, Tony Kushner, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Primo Levi, T.S.Eliot, Marcel Proust, Bernard Shaw, etc.
"The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."