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Myself aged 12.
Amsterdam/Pele Bauhaus Martyn Bennett Black/Colin Vearncombe Blancmange Blind Mole Rat Blyth Power/Red Wedding The Bolshoi/Trevor Tanner David Bowie Billy Bragg Bruise The Buggles Chumbawamba Comsat Angels Julian Cope Cathal Coughlan/Fatima Mansions/Microdisney The Cult The Cure Curtis Eller's American Circus The Damned Danielle Dax Dead Can Dance The Devil's Jukebox Ian Dury & The Blockheads Bob Dylan Editors Els Pets Fairport Convention (early) Fields Of The Nephilim Foo Fighters Four Day Hombre John Foxx/Ultravox The Frames Fun Lovin Criminals Gore Arlo Guthrie Half Man Half Biscuit Nick Harper Boo Hewerdine Simon Hinkler Isobel Rose Joe Jackson (early) Philip Jeays Jesus Couldnt Drum (& related) Killing Joke The Kinks La Bottine Souriante Landscape La Volee D'Castors The Levellers Little Match Girl Love Spit Love Kirsty MacColl Madness Ministry Monochrome Set Jim Moray Peter Murphy Bill Nelson New Model Army Gary Numan OMD (early) Phluid Public Image Limited Queens Of The Stone Age Radical Dance Faction Eddi Reader Julianne Regan Robochrist Rosetta Stone/Miserylab David Rovics Dave Sharpe Shock Headed Peters The Sisters Of Mercy The Sisters Of Murphy David Sylvian/Japan Tansads Jake Thackray They Might Be Giants Richard Thompson Thomas Truax The Toy Dolls Toy Machine/Foley/Poontang Benjamin Wetherill The Wonder Stuff/Miles Hunt Rufus Wainwright Xi XTCto name but a few...
Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Jabberwocky, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys) Jan Svankmajer (Alice, Little Otik, shorts) Stanley Kubrick (2001, Dr Strangelove, Clockwork Orange) This Is Spinal Tap How To Get Ahead In Advertising Withnail & I Life Is Beautiful Life Is Sweet The Jerk The Man With Two Brains Amelie The Night Porter
Stephen FryHugh LaurieStewart LeeAdam CurtisMark ThomasMarcus BrigstockeDavid StarkeyMatt GroeningChris MorrisPeter CookSpike Milligan Dylan MoranBill BaileyKevin EldonSimon MunneryChuck Jones
Douglas Adams Ray Bradbury Miguel De Cervantes Anton Chekhov Mitch Cullin Richard Dawkins Philip K Dick Fyodor Dostoevsky Bo Fowler Antonia Fraser Gunter Grass John Hegley Joseph Heller Karl Kraus Stanislaw Lem Michael Marshall Smith Mike McCormack Martin Millar Rupert Morgan George Orwell Robert Rankin Matt Ridley Saki Tom Sharpe David Starkey Robert Tressell Oscar Wilde P.G. Wodehouse John Wyndham William Butler Yeats Benjamin Zephaniah
"The things you're looking for are in the world...Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine or library. Do your own bit of saving and, if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."Ray Bradbury - 'Fahrenheit 451'