Member Since: 2/10/2008
Band Website: http://www.thegrymoire.com
Band Members: Adam Scott: keyboards, drums, mellodica, vocals and necromancy
Mark Shillaker: guitars, bass, ukuleles, recorders, vocals and automatic writing
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Influences: Blimey - it's a long list. Englishness as expressed by Butterworth, Vaughn-Williams, Elgar and Blake, George Formby and Cecil Sharp. The music of Jethro Tull, Robert Wyatt the Stawbs, Flanders and Swan, Gentle Giant, Yes, Vivian Stanshall, Neil Innes and The Bonzos, the English 60's psychedelic scene, Roy Wood, Ray Davies, Cardiacs, giant ram's skulls, Arthur Rackham, Fairport Convention, The Wicker Man and Rupert Bear, Hymns Ancient and Modern, ginger cake and iced buns, Jacob Boehme, the Nag Hammadi Gospels, The Dambusters, The Little Grey Men, Winston Churchill, Messrs Parker, Fairhall and Hudson, Rupert Bear, The Golden Bough, The Hobbit, garden gnomes, Marty Feldman, Derek Nimmo, Mary, Mungo and Midge, Robert Morley, Northern Soul, Egyptology. Ivor Cutler, Edward Lear, The Church of England, Lucifer, cups of tea, Norman Wisdom, pessimism, optimism, John Stuart Mill, Israel Regardie, Albert Einstein, Peter Sallis, Baker St tube station, Keats, Byron and Shelley. The Incredible String Band, Rubble, Pebbles, Erky Grant and the Earwigs, HP Lovecraft, Whirling Dervishes, black treacle, ectoplasm, voles, Robbie the Robot..
Sounds Like: Two incorrigible romantics with a selection of battered instruments, a whimsical vision and not nearly enough bloody time!
Record Label: Unsigned