Member Since: 28/08/2005
Band Website: www.harryflowers.com
Band Members: Harry Flowers - vocals, instruments, production; Others - occassional contributions.
Influences: SOUNDS
Art of Fighting, Mike Oldfield, The Pixies, Grant McLennan, David Bowie, Roxy Music, The Church, Martin Phillips and The Chills, Kate Bush, Suede, Pulp, The Smiths, REM, Arcade Fire, The Go-Betweens, Ride, The Hummingbirds, Blur, The Strange Death Of Liberal England, Folding For Air, Augie March, The Cure, Falco, Robert Forster, Isidore, Kevin Ayers, Radiohead, Cornershop, Mohair Halo, XTC, Steve Kilbey, The Stares, The Aloha Pussycats, Syd Barrett, Not Drowning Waving, The Byrds, Marty Willson-Piper, My Bloody Valentine, Dead Can Dance, Leonard Cohen, The Ergot Derivative, Mick Harvey, Adam and the Ants, Stephen Cummings, Joy Division, Serge Gainsbourg, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of The Worlds, The Kinks, Duran Duran, Lindy Morrison, Tyranosaurus Rex, Perry Farrell, Pop Will Eat Itself, Chris Knox, Paul Simon, John Lennon, the brothers Finn, Bobby Dylan, The Sisters of Mercy, Mike Batt, The Albion Country Band, Bauhaus, The Triffids, Flock, Miles Davis, Donovan, etc., etc.,
WORDS
Mervyn Peake, J.K. Huysmans, Oscar Wilde, Clive Barker, Jeanette Winterson, John Milton, Dorothy Porter, Italo Calvino, William Faulkner, Arthur Rimbaud, Franz Kafka, Jean Paul Satre, Alasdair Gray, Sir John Mandeville, Robert Holdstock, Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi, Leonard Cohen (again), Will Self, Angela Carter, Rjurik Davidson, Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Carver, Simon Parker, Lautremont, Paul Verlaine, Patrick McGrath, Johnny Keats, Quentin Crisp, etc., etc.,
IMAGES
Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Marc Chagall, Xul Solar, Max Ernst, Jacek Yerka, Giorgio de Chirico, Oskar Kokoschka, Aubrey Beardsley, Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake, Gustave Moreau, Mikhail Vrubel, Francisco Goya, etc., etc., etc.,
Sounds Like: Whiskey sours...crumbling towers...wasted hours...golden showers...
Record Label: Nouveau Tattva (self release)