Making a racket with my band Painterman, Riding my scooter around the beautiful English countryside, collecting/restoring vintage scooters, Painterman Djs, floating up the Thames in an old boat, Contemporary Art...Blah Blah Blah, gigs/festivals, scooter rallies, car boot souls, feeding the ducks, listening to Bob Dylan with me eyes closed, thee occasional round of golf with me fellow bandits, knock up the odd painting now and again, pubs clubs and candle lit tubs..ciao bella!
Acid House, The Fab Four, Stone Roses, Lightnin' Hopkins, Scroobius Pip, Cat Power, Jackie Mitto, Hendrix, Sleaford Mods, N.W.A, Them, Kinks, Bob Dylan, Jamie-T, Otis Redding, Dexy's, Cold War Kids, Beta Band, IAN BROWN, Lee Perry, Nick Drake, M.I.A, Elvis, The Kooks, The Doors, Derrick Morgan, Lone Pigeon, Slim Smith, Prince Buster, King Biscuit Time, The Courteeners, Beach Boys, Big Youth, Dizzie Rascal, The Who, Spiral Tribe, Karen Dalton, The Fall, Flowered Up, Beastie Boys, BAXTER DURY, Purple Hearts, Squ!re, Stones, Pink Floyd, Skinhead Reggae, The Bees, The Basement, Doves, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Betty Harris, The Sonics, Laurel Aitken, Death In Vegas, The Streets, Northern Soul, The Creation, The Smiths, Lily Allen, Stephen Fretwell, Kasabian, Plan-B, Stevie Wonder, 808 State, Pete Doherty, Mc Solar, The Dubliners, The Clash, Christy Moore, The Specials, Johnny Cash, Oasis, The Jam, Toots and the Maytals, Alfie, The Stands, Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound, Larrikin Love, Gong, Dj Shadow, Howlin'Wolf, The Chords, The Maccabees, Electro 86, Dustins Bar Mitzvah, Tricky, Happy Mondays, The Beta Band, The Rapture, Peter Tosh, Pistols, The Paddingtons, Smog, Roots Manuva, UNKLE, King Tubby, The Scream, Can, Charlatans, The Smiths, Dj Yoda, The Rifles, Joy Division, The Walkmen, etc etc etc...
Billy Liar, The Harder They Come, Dead Man's Shoes, The Firm(Football), A Room For Romeo Brass, Raging Bull, Brighton Rock, Performance, Rude Boy, Withnail and I, City Of God, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Scum, In America, Betty Blue, Made In Britain, Mean Streets, Rockers, 70s Horror, The Filth And The Fury, Man Bites Dog, Taxi Driver, Jaws, Enter the Dragon, Django, Quadrophenia, Deer Hunter, Get Carter, Rocky, Spinal Tap, Blow Up, The Wicker Man, Naked, anything with Ray Winstone in...he's the geezer, Vanishing Point, Scarface, Serpico, Fahrenheit 451, Mc Vicar, Dirty Harry, Dont Look Back, La Haine, Citizen Kane...
Only Fools and Horses, Columbo, Curb Your Enthusiasm...
Richard Barnes (Mods!), Banksy (Wall & Piece), John King (Headhunters etc), Allan Sillitoe (Saturday Night Sunday Morning), Kestrel For A Knave, Charles L. Granata (I Just Wasn't Made For These Times), Jon Savage (England's Dreaming), Roald Dahl, De Quincey, Warren Fellows (The Damage Done), M Ageyev (Novel With Cocaine), J.D Sallinger, George Orwell (Down And Out In Paris), Robert Sabbag, Lewis Carrol...
Not really heroes but...Richard Pryor, Jerry Dammers, Jimmy White, Red Rum, Oliver Reed, Hurricane Higgins, Shane MacGowan, John McEnroe, Bob De Niro, Tony Montana, Tracy Emin, Bruce Lee, Georgey Best, Ian Brown, Lee Mavers, John Peel, Mick & Keith, Paul Weller, Bob Dylan, Syd Barret, Johhny Cash, Banksy, Liam, Martin Scorsese, Spiral Tribe, Lenny Bruce, Van Morrison, Ian Dury, Pete Townsend, George Orwell, Phil Spector, Jackson Pollock, Albert Finney, Rod Stewart, Tony Hancock, Steve Marriot, Sir Peter Blake, Luke Kelly, Beatle John......