Member Since: 1/14/2008
Band Website: cdbaby.com/whaleblueeye
Band Members: All songs by Gavin Stewart of Whale Blue Eye
Influences: In no particular order as far as I can see: Miles Davis, the Smiths, Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, Kate Bush, U2, REM, the Police, Morrissey, Jane's Addiction, John Coltrane, Ravi Shankar, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, the Cure, Blur, Tori Amos, the Beatles, Chet Baker, Bhagavan Das, the Psychedelic Furs, Grateful Dead, Iron Maiden, Shakespeare, Krishna Das, the Verve, John Irving, Oasis, Soundgarden, Blondie, Alice in Chains, the Doors, Pearl Jam, Duncan Sheik, David Gray, Led Zeppelin, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Judas Priest, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, Harmony Bandits, the Clash, Mod Alien, Mountain, the Mountains, tall trees, red-tailed hawks, Anil Gupta, and Walt Whitman
Sounds Like: I labour by singing light/
Not for ambition or bread/
Or the strut and trade of charms/
On the ivory stages/
But for the common wages/
Of their most secret heart./Not for the proud man apart/
From the raging moon I write/
On these spindrift pages/
Nor for the towering dead/
With their nightingales and psalms/
But for the lovers, their arms/
Round the griefs of the ages,/
Who pay no praise or wages/
Nor heed my craft or art. xxx
--Dylan Thomas
Record Label: Hedgerow Records if, and only if, it existed ...
Type of Label: None