Music:
These are some of the bands and artists who have inspired us (an incomplete list but in alphabetical order):14 Iced Bears, Aberdeen, A Certain Ratio, The Action, The Activation, Adam And The Ants, Adventures In Stereo, A Flock Of Seagulls, Ahab, Aislers Set, Angel Racing Food, Another Pretty Face, Another Sunny Day, APB, Apple Boutique, The Apples In Stereo, Armitage Shanks, Arne Hansen, Art Brut, Article 58, Art School, Ashtray Boy, Peter Astor, Astroburger, Chet Atkins, Aztec Camera, Baby Lemonade, Syd Barrett, The Bartlebees, Karl Bartos, Martyn Bates, The Bathers, The Bats, Bauhaus, The Beach Boys, Beachwood Sparks, Beaument, Beat Happening, The Beatles, The Beautiful South, Belle & Sebastian, Peter Becker, Paul Bevoir, Biff Bang Pow, The Blue Aeroplanes, The Bluebells, Blueboy, The Blue Orchids, Blue Train, Blur, BMX Bandist, The Bodines, The Boo Radleys, Adrian Borland, The Bounty Hunters, David Bowie, Boys About Town, Brave Captain, Brighter, Bron Area, The Brotherhood Of Lizards, Buddha On The Moon, Bunsen Honeydew, The Butterfly Collector, The Buzzcocks, The Byrds, Cannanes, Care, Celest, The Chairs, The Chamber Strings, The Chameleons, Chapterhouse, The Charlatans, The Cherry Boys, The Cherry Orchard, The Chills, China Crisis, The Christians, The Church, The Clash, The Clean, The Cleaners From Venus, The Clientele, Cloud Eleven, Coldplay, Edwyn Collins, The Colourfield, The Comsat Angels, Tony Conway, Julian Cope, Cornershop, Elvis Costello, The Creation, Crowded House, Dalek I Love You, The Damned, The dBs, Delta, Denim, Desperate Bicycles, Dexys Midnight Runners, Dif Juz, Direct Hits/Colin Swan, The Divine Comedy, DM3, Jedrjez Dmochikowski, The Dukes Of Stratosphere, Durutti Column, The Dylans, The Easybeats, Echo & The Bunnymen, Electronic, The Electric Prunes, The English Beat, Ethnobabes, Eugene Kelly, Even As We Speak, Eyeless In Gaza, Faction, Georgie Fame, The Fantastic Something, The Fay Hallam Trinity, Felt, The Field Mice, The Finn Brothers, Fire Engines, The Flaps, Roddy Frame, The Free Design, Freeze Frame, Four Volts, Fun Boy 3, The Furious Apple, Galaxie 500, Mark Gardiner, Gentle Waves, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Gift, The Gifted Children, Glide, The Go Betweens, Vic Goddard & The Subway Sect, Go Kart Mozart, Go Service, The Great Outdoors, Green Pajamas, The Green Peppers, The Green Circles, GripWeeds, The Groovy Cellar, The Groovy Little Numbers, Paul Haig, Haircut 100, Terry Hall, Hambi & The Dance, The Hang Ups, The Happy Couple, The Happy Family, Harper Lee, Jowe Head, The Higher Elevations, The Hit Parade, Robyn Hitchcock, The Hollies, The Hoodoo Gurus, The Housemartins, The House Of Love, The Impossible Years, It’s Jo And Danny, Jacobites, The Jam, The James Dean Driving Experience, The James Taylor Quartet, The Jazmine Minks, The Jazz Buthcer, Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, The Jessica Fletchers, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jet Set, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Josef K, Joy Division, The June Brides, The Jupiter Affect, Kaleidoscope, Kevin Kane, Vince Keenan, Dteve Kilbey, Robert King, The Kinks, James Kirk, The Knickerbockers, Peter Loppes, Kraftwerk, Dave Kusworth, The Ladybug Transistor, The Lambrettas, The Laughing Apple, The Legend!, The Legends, The Lemonheads, The Letters, Mike Levy, Andy Lewis, The Lightning Seeds, The Lilys, The Loch Ness Mouse, The Lo-Fidelica, The Loft, The Looking Glass, Lori & The Chameleons, Love, Love Corporation, Lovejoy, Love Tractor, The Lucksmiths, Luna, Madness, The Mad Hatters, The Mad Scene, Magazine, The Magnetic Fields, Manfred Mann, Manual Scan, The March Violets, Thee Masonics, Max Eider, Mazzy Star, The McCluskey Brothers, McTells, Meat Whiplash, The Mekons, Melvyn & The Smarties, The Merton Parkas, The Midget Submarines, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The Mighty Wah!, Thee Milkshakes, Roger Miller, The Minders, Mission Of Burma, The Misunderstood, The Mixers, Modern Eon, Modern English, The Moment, Monaco, Monagraph, The Monkees, The Montgolfier Brothers, Mood Six, The Mopeds, Van Morrison, The Most Wanted Men, MOTO, The Muffs, Mull Historical Society, New Musik, Martin Newell, New Order, Nico, The Nivens, Nom, The Nutley Brass, Nutrition Facts, One Thousand Violins, The Only Ones, Orange Juice, Oranger, Orchestral Manoevers In The Dark, The Ordinary Boys, John Otway, Outrageous Cherry, Pacific Radio, The Page Boys, The Pale Fountains, Pale Saints, The Passage, The Pastels, Gram Parsons, The Pearl Fishers, Pere Ubu, Pernice Brothers, Phaze, Phonoboy, The Photon Band, The Pipettes, Pink Military, Pink Industry, Polaris, Polyrock, The Posies, Preston School Of Industry, Primal Scream, The Prime Movers, The Prisoners, The Purple Hearts, Paul Quinn & the Independent Group, The Rain Parade, Simon Raymonde, The Razercuts, The Red Crayola, Otis Redding, Red House Painters, The Reegs, The Reluctant Aquanauts, The Remains, The Residents, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Revillos, The Revolving Paint Dream, The Rezillos, Jonathan Richman, Ride, Rinaldi Sings, Rockfour, Norman Rodger, Rutles, Saint Etienne, The Salteens, The Scarecrows, Scars, Scud Mountain Boys, The Sea Urchins, Second Layer, Secret Affair, The Secret Goldfish, The Seeds, Serena Maneesh, The Servants, Shack, Shambeko Say Wah, The Shambles, Shake, Shame, The Shoestrings, Shop Assistants, The Silly Pillows, Nancy Sinatra, The Sinatras, Skyray, Slowdive, Slowdive, The Small Faces, The Small Hours, The Smiths, The Sneetches, The Snowdrops, The Softboys, The Someloves, The Sorayas, The Sound, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Soundtracks & Head, Soup Dragons, Spacemen 3, Spearmint, Spear Of Destiny, The Special AKA, Spirea X, Spiritualised, Split Enz, Sportique, Squire, St. Etienne, Stars, St. Christopher, The Steinbecks, The Stems, The Steppes, Stockholm Monsters, The Stooges, Strawberry Switchblade, The Style Council, Nikki Sudden, Sudden Sway, The Surfaris, The Sugargliders, Sugarplum, Sugarman 3, Summer Factory, Superstar, Thy Surfyn Eyes, Colin Swan, The Sweetest Ache, Swell Maps, Swervedriver, The Swingers, The Swinging Laurels, The Syd Presley Experience, The Tables, Talk Talk, Talulah Gosh, The Teardrops, Teardrop Explodes, Teenage Fanclub, Teenage Filmstars, Televise, Television, Television Personalities, Tender Trap, Thee Headcoats, The The, Theater Of Hate, This Happy Breed, This Mortal Coil, This Years Model, The Threads, The Three Johns, The Three O' Clock, The Times, Tontrix, Tot Taylor, The Trashcan Sinatras, Trembling Blue Stars, Tullycraft, TV21, The Tyde, U2, The Undertones, The Urban Verbs, The Vaselines, Vehicle Flips, The Velvet Underground, The Ventures, Vib Gyor, The VIP’s, The Virgin Prunes, The Void, Voxtrot, Wah!, Wah Heat, Dee Walker, Scott Walker, The Wake, The Walker Brothers, Phil Ward, The Waterboys/Mike Scott, The Waving Trees, The Weather Prophets, Jimmy Webb, Wedding Present, The White Capsule, The Who, Wild Swans, Mari Wilson, Phil Wilson, Marty Wilson-Piper, The Windmills, The Wisdom Of Harry, The Wondermints, The Woodentops, XTC, The Yardbirds, The Yachts, Yukio Yung, Zerra One, The Zombies,Apologies to the 1,000’s we missed above – it doesn’t mean we don’t like you! It’s hard to do a complete list when you have been a fan of great POP music for over a quarter of a century (but I’m still “Young at Heartâ€).
