Sleeping-daydreaming-tea & cigarettes-pints & bloody marys-7"-da da da doum la la di da da-sleeping, sleeping, sleeping and thinking about a certain Buzzcocks song.
Irish blood, English heart (et puis Scottish et Welsh et Australian aussi):
Arab Strap,Art Brut, The Auteurs,Syd Barrett,ballboy,The Beatles, BELLE AND SEBASTIAN,Bis,BLUR,Boo Radleys,British Sea Power,Broadcast,Buzzcocks,Camera Obscura,The Clash,Clearlake,Clinic,The Coral,GRAHAM COXON,early Cure,Day One,Dead Famous People, Death In Vegas' "Contino Sessions",The Delgados,Denim, Dexys Midnight Runners,some Divine Comedy,Nick Drake,Echo and The Bunnymen,Eighties matchbox B Line Disaster,Elastica,Felt,Field Music,Fosca,Franz Ferdinand,The Go-Betweens,Harper Lee,The House of Love,David Kitt,I Am Kloot,iLiKETRAiNS, some Jack,The Jam,The Jesus and Mary Chain,Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes, JOY DIVISION,THE KINKS,Kitchens of Distinction's "Love is Hell",The La's,The Libertines,Mccarthy,Frances Mac Kee,McLusky,The Monochrome Set,Moose,Morrissey,MY BLOODY VALENTINE, New Order,The Orchids,PIANO MAGIC, early Pink Floyd,Primal
Scream,PULP,RIDE,The Roadside Poppies,Alasdair Roberts,Saloon,Seachange,Shack,Six By Seven,Sleepy Jackson,Slowdive's "Souvlaki",Small Faces, THE SMITHS,SPEARMINT,The Specials,Stereolab,The Stone Roses' first album,The Streets,some Suede,Super Furry Animals, Supergrass,Teenage Fanclub,Tindersticks,some TV Personalities,u.n.p.o.c,THE VASELINES,The Wedding Present,the Wake,early Who,James Yorkston...
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American Dream:
A Silver Mt Zion,Troy Balthazar,LOU BARLOW,some Beck,Brendan Benson,Blonde Redhead,Brian Jonestown Massacre,Bright Eyes,Calla, CHOKEBORE,Kimya Dawson,EELS,Fugazi,Grandaddy,Adam Green's first album,Interpol,Jonathan Fire Eater,Jeffrey Lewis,Liars,some Love,The Moldy Peaches,The National, Will Oldham,Pavement,Pixies,SEBADOH/Sentridoh,The Shins, Slint, ELLIOTT SMITH, Sparklehorse,SONIC YOUTH,Bruce Springsteen's folk songs,The Strokes' first album,some 'Trail of Dead, The Velvet Underground,The Warlocks, Yo La Tengo,Neil Young's "Harvest" etc
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Europe is our Playground:
some 22-Pistepirkko,Acid House Kings,Action Biker,Pelle Carlberg, deus,some Einstürzende Neubauten,Family, The Hives, Irene, early Jay Jay Johanson, La Casa Azul,Migala,Le Mans, Ms John Soda,The Notwist's "Neon Golden",Raveonettes,Refree, Refused's "Shape of Punk to come",The Satellites,Soda Fountain Rag,The Shermans, Stereo Total,St Thomas, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Superheroes,The Wannadies, Yonderboi's "Shallow and profound"...
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Frenchy but chic:
Air,Calc,The Coquines, Dorian Pimpernel,Drift Ease Line,Eldia,Fugu,Go Go Charlton,Gülcher, Herman Dune,Hopper,Horse Mac Topper, I Love UFO,Butch McKoy,Nelson,Playdoh,Sons of Frida,Statics,Steeple Remove,Syd Matters,Tchiki Boum,Underground Railroad,Vertigo Quartet...
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I also play in Foxglove and Louis Lingg and the Bombs
KEN LOACH,Tim Burton,Larry Clark, Monty Python,"The Rutles", "My Own Private Idaho", "A Clockwork Orange", "Trainspotting", "Clerks, "Dead Man", "Donnie Darko", "Requiem for a Dream", "Virgin Suicide", "Lost in Translation", "Quadrophenia", "If...", "Britannia Hospital", "Shallow Grave","The Magdalene Sisters","The Wizard of Oz","Incompreso" "Young Adam" , "The Hours", "Buffalo 66", " Gummo", "Harold & Maud", Murnau's "Nosferatu","Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" ,"E.T." , "Dig!","Papy fait de la résistance", "Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob" ( and lots of other De Funès movies... ), some Woody Allen... etc etc etc-----------------------------------------
UK: BLACK BOOKS/MONTY PYTHONS/ The Young Ones/ Black Adder/ Bottom/Ab Fab/ Shameless... US:MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE/ Desperate Housewives/ Heroes/ Friends... cartoons: Daria/ the Simpsons...Et bien sûr les grands classiques: Next/ Exposed/ The Simple Life/ Jackass & toutes ces sortes de choses
ROALD DAHL,JONATHAN COE, Nick Hornby, Jay McInerney, B.E.Ellis, Maupassant, Daniel Pennac, John Fante, William Blake's poetry, some of Emily Dickinson's poems, Ian McEwan, John Kennedy Toole, Salinger,R.McLiam Wilson...etc etc And British children's books ( "Harry Potter", "Peter Pan", "Just William" and so on. Oh and did I mention Roald Dahl? 'Cause he deserves to be mentioned twice. At least).----------------------------------------------------- ---------------- + comics: Gotlib, Franquin,"Garfield", "Les Tuniques Bleues", "Asterix", "Achille Talon",Sempé, Bretecher, Luz, Charb...etc etc