Member Since: 12/1/2005
Band Website: zingg.co.uk
Band Members: Lance - songs & vocals & guitars
B - vocals & drums & guitar & just about anything else to hand
Matt 'Fudge Slices' McGain - bass & fuzz & drums
'Calypso' Mat Boulter - lap steel, banjo, guitar and vocals
Influences: Pavement, Malkmus, Silver Jews, Eels, Will Oldham, American Music Club, Buffallo Tom, Lemonheads, Evan Dando, Elliott Smith, Simon & Garfunkel, Velvet Underground, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Dylan, Buzzcocks, The Pursuit Of Happiness, the Smiths, White Stripes, Kinks, Billy Bragg, PUB ROCK!, REM, Teenage Fanclub, Karl Wallinger, The Go-Betweens, Prefab Sprout, Tom Waits, Smog, The Blue Nile, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ben Folds, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, PJ Harvey....too many to mention...
Also - for the celluloid inspiration - shout out to Joel & Ethan Cohen, Wes Anderson, Stephen Spielberg, Mike Leigh, Gus Van Sant, Michael Moore, Spike Lee, Zach Braff Peter Cook, Alan J Pakula, De Palma, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen...this is getting ridiculous now.....for the pulp - Nick Hornby, Donna Tartt and about 12000 others thangyew g'night!
Sounds Like: Hear for yourself - Cusack plays EVERY THURSDAY AT SHANGRI-LA, THE RAILWAY HOTEL, CLIFFTOWN ROAD, SOUTHENDCusack sounds like all the above...and like nothing else you've ever heard in your life.
Yup, right....ok....let's see....'Intimate', 'Laid Back' and 'Groovy' (thanks Gretchen)!
Imagine Simon & Garfunkel singing songs by Evan Dando and Tom Morgan with Spritualized, or the Velvet Underground playing back-up band.
I also owe a musical debt to Eels and Peter Buck whose theory of guitar playing I adhere to entirely...'Three Chords and a Cloud of Dust'....
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