Member Since: 8/22/2005
Band Website: philburdett.com
Band Members: Past and present members include : - Phil Burdett ,Terry Lewis, Tim Huskisson, Phil Aldridge, Russ Strothard, Miche Revivo, Trevor Newham, Grev Parker, Claire Furley, Maddie Maxwell and Jane Winiberg. Not forgetting..Ian Stewart, Carl Skinner, Domenico Monaco & the legendary Sundry Others..The late, great Pete Jacobsen also performed on recordings and at live shows.
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Influences: Music..Mr Dylan, Mr Cohen, Ms Mitchell, Scott Walker, Early Van Morrison, The Band, Tim Buckley, Jimmy Webb, Brian Wilson, Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Son House, Willie Nelson, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Phil Spector, Davey Graham, Tom Waits, Pavement & anything Stephen Malkmus touches, Randy Newman, Townes Van Zandt, Robert Wyatt, Warren Zevon, Little Feat, Steve Earle, Lou Reed, John Fahey, Mark Eitzel, Laura Nyro, Mark E. Smith, Tim Hardin, Ewan MacColl, Pere Ubu, Fred Neil, Jackie Leven, Neil Young, Donald Fagen & Walter Becker, Merle Haggard, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Elvis Costello, Television, Ann Briggs, Thelonius Monk, Bowie (Station To Station & Low mainly), John Otway, Louis Jordan, Billy Bragg, Pete Shelley & Howard Devoto, John Martyn, Ivor Cutler, Bonnie Prince Billy, Prefab Sprout, Early Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, CSN&Y, Cecil Taylor, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Harry Nillsson, Chet Baker, Arvo Part, Edgard Varese, Kokomo, Nick Drake, Gustav Mahler, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Ian Dury, Husker Du, Kevin Rowland, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Beck, Frank Sinatra, Little Richard, Taj Mahal, Ramones, Beach Boys, Captain Beefheart, Jimmy Rogers, Carole King, Gamble & Huff, Bacharach & David, Mann & Weill. Dion, Robert Johnson, Rickie Lee Jones, Phil Ochs, Mick Remmington! Dave Dulake..Art-wise...Cezanne, Otto Dix, Marc Chagall, Duchamp, Egon Schiele, Soutine, Hopper, Modigliani, Mr Bacon & Mr Freud..Dadaists..more music...Vic Godard, Jackson Browne, Wreckless Eric, Holland, Dozier & Holland, Jacques Brel, Hank Williams, Gene Vincent..most country soul, some post-punk, bits of jazz/reggae/rap, lots of acoustic blues, And much else besides...Writers/poets..Mr Joyce & Mr Beckett above all other mortals but also Thomas Mann (esp. Doctor Faustus), Arthur Rimbaud, E.E.Cummings, Herman Hesse, Donald Barthelme, Walt Whitman, bits of Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf, Knut Hamsun, Michel de Montaigne, Brendan Behan (esp. Borstal Boy), Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Merton, Gore Vidal & Clive James (essays not novels), Thomas Wolfe, Kafka, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Melville, Keats, Hart Crane, Philip K. Dick, John Berryman, Anne Stevenson, Osip Mandlestam, Kerouac (for Doctor Sax & Big Sur mainly), Don DeLillo, Mr Larkin, Mr Eliot...otherwise...Lester Bangs, Clive James, Richard Dawkins (join the RDF now!), Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Philip K. Dick, Steven Pinker, John Pilger, bits of G.I. Gurdjieff, P.D. Ouspensky, Tony Benn, Robert Fisk, Dalai Lama, Snoopy, Steve Bell, Martin Rowson...Comedy..Chris Morris, PETER COOK & Dudley Moore, Hancock, Larry David, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard, Steven Wright (not that anus of a dj), Ricky Gervais, Woody Allen, Kenneth Williams, Sid James..TV (mostly on vid/dvd)..South Park, Python, Family Guy, Columbo repeats, Bilko, Most Stephen Fry things, Let's Punch Jeremy Clarkson Hour (fictional unfortunately), Trumpton, Laurel & Hardy, Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Radio 4, Fawlty Towers, Channel 4 News...Films..Jungle Book, On The Waterfront, Raging Bull, Heat Of The Night, Les Amants De Pont Neuf, Odd Couple (most Neil Simon in fact), Eraserhead, Guys & Dolls, Fisher King, Most Ken Loach & David Lynch, Most Scorcese, Don't Look Back, Terry Gilliam always fun, Ditto Michael Moore & Alex Jones, Christopher Guest too, any chat show with Christopher Hitchens as guest, well constructed conspiracy theories (Who Killed John O'Neill?), Hitchcock on a rainy sunday afternoon (Alfred not Robyn)..News..Guardian, Independent, Morning Star, The Skeptic, Humanist, Private Eye, New York Review Of Books.. Miscellaneous..my strange & wonderful boys Jed & Brad, Penguins, Bears (i am a bear, you know?), Cats (hello Mrs Tibbs), sitting on benches near water and railway lines, Guinness when raining & Mexican or Indian lager when sunny, tequila when insane, putting paint on canvas in an attractive manner, putting paint on canvas in an unattractive manner, Giraffes, The Sea, Beagles, Gypsophilia, the thrill of an unknown city, Lighthouses, Daisies en masse, cactii in groups of two or three, Telegraph poles across a winter field, Aubergines (colour & shape not taste), Dublin, Amsterdam, Blue Teapots, A production of Endgame by Beckett starring Michael Gambon & Lee Evans that occupied one of the most powerful & happiest matinees of my life, crumpets, Southend to Leigh-on-sea coastal walk, globes, Camomile tea, watching right-wing bigots squirm in the face of their inadequacies & wine gums.
Sounds Like: "Haunting & bewitching with echoes of Van Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Brian Wilson & Bob Dylan, Phil's fourth album is a bittersweet, poignant and touching affair."
Record Label: Suburban Mythic.
Type of Label: Indie