Bel Canto in esperanto, Getting the Philosophers stoned, Geistchasing, Busking, Quatrain verse, Reckless repartee, Wordsmiffing, Invoking the seven goddesses, Primal Screaming, Hubcaphunting, time travelling biscuits, wargames. Scouser Spirit-sensitives we are taking over! Learned to tap from the best!Too right!
Salinger, Andre Gide, Elaine Stritch, Ethel Merman, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein, Stephen Schwartz, Sondheim, John Cooper Clarke, Marcel Proust, Harold Pinter, Spike Milligan,PETER COOK, cowardice but the first noel. Droogs, wind up merchants, pisstakers, esperanto spewers,freemasons, arthtitic contortionists,the algonquinites, my other self, Paganini.
THE CLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! uncle mick! Squeeze, The Teardrop Exlodes, Julian Cope! Steely Dan The Replacements, Gun Club,Robyn Hitchcock,The Soft Boys, XTC, The Pogues, Iggy Pop,The Kinks,The Stones,Todd Rundgren, Peter Tosh Jah guide! ,Simon and Garfunkel,James Taylor, Carole King, The Mumps A force of nature these lads! DAVID BOWIE (there was once no one on this earth more devout a bowie fan than me!), Joe Jackson, Bow wow wow (had the annabella look once),Adam and the ants, immanuel kantmusic huge fuckin Beatles fan, GEORGE HARRISON, JOHN LENNON, Definitely Maybe Alright I confess! brian eno, New York Dolls.John Martyn, Le Tigre,The Pixies charlatans uk, the chameleons, AYE VERONICA LOVES NASHVILLE TUNING! The Slits,Plasmatics,the adverts,the three johns, wolfmother , The Police earliest the better,The Damned(early days) THESE BOYS WERE ACTUAL FRIENDS O MINE:) ,patti smith,the jam,richard hell, the saints, X Ray Spex , JAMES GANG,TOWNES VAN ZANT, THIS MAN HURLED AN AMP AT MY PRODUCER ONCE, BUT STILL A HUGE IMPACT ON MY MUSIC LIKE badfinger,missing persons, marianne faithful, romeo void, blondie, the beach boys, ultravox,laura nyro, old tin lizzy! johnny cash,supertramp,tom waits,ricki lee jones,husker du, the germs, FOR YOU IAIN X jones,shirley bassey,joe pass, django reinhardt,new model army, tom lehrer,the hollies, the left banke, the zombies Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Charlie Christian, Charles Mingus, Tower oF Power, Larry Carlton, Steve Gadd, Lee Ritenour, Robert Johnson, Chick Corea, Mahavishnu Orchestra flying burrito brothers, knoppfler, blue oyster cult, BASIA,ASTRUD GILBERTO, The La s,The Godfathers, lords of the new church, DEAD BOYS, The CRamps. NICK CAVE AND THE BADSEEDS,XTC, DEAD KENNEDYS, siouxsie but not the creatures. The JAM, buzzcocks, the the, nina hagen, billy bragg and the blokes,Tim Hardin, bobby darin, MAGNETIC FIELDS, STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, KATE BUSH, FRED ASTAIRE, COLE PORTER, MOST ORIGINAL COMPANY ALBUMS OF MUSICALS ( PARTICULARLY ScHWARTZ, SONDHEIM AND HAMMERSTEIN, LYDIA LUNCH, THIN LIZZY, SEX PISTOLS, THE EXPLOITED, WAS A TRUE PUNK ONCE! LYNYRD SKYNYRD, J GEILS BAND, ELENI MANDELL,T-Rex, Tannahil Weavers, Leonard Cohen, gang of four, the soft machine Pinter Plays, matinees and Mahler.. ~ Andy is diamond!
Les dangereuse question I was a film teacher! THE GREAT ESCAPE, anything by Wertmuller! Sergei Eisenstein's the Battleship Potemkin, The Golem (1918) Night of the Hunter, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Last House on the Left ( and the road leads to nowhere) The inimitable Goddard. CLOCKWORK ORANGE,Night has eyes, THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932), YANKEE DOODLE DANDY, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES, Russ Meyer, Pasoloni ( the canebury tales),Repulsion, Mario Bava and early Argento giallo films, spaghetti westerns, film noir, DETOUR, and the woman that inspired my current look Miss Veronica Lake films. SMALL FACES, Withnail and I, Nil by Mouth, SCUM, THE WOMEN ( KILL SOMEONE THEY ARE REMAKING IT), WAGES OF FEAR, CAMP, GODSPELL, THE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE, LOVE HONOUR AND OBEY, I'LL SLEEP WHEN i'M DEAD, SEXY BEAST, HAROLD AND MAUDE, LABYRINTH, IMITATION OF LIFE ( 1957) CLARK GABLE AND JEAN HARLOWE FILMS, SOMEWHERE IN TIME, THE LIFE AQUATIC, I AM CURIOUS YELLOW, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA, EXTREMELY EARLY KUBRICK EG THE KILLING, PINK FLAMINGOS.Lady in a cage, Im your man, ichi the killer, audition, suburbia, who killed bambi, the concert for bangladesh, ziggy stardust motion picture, janis, sgt peppers lonely heart club band for the surreal casting!! Hershell Gordon Lewis films, some early Bob Clark ( Children shouldn't play with dead things) Polanski, Kurosawa, Ken Loach. Takashi Miike in small doses.
Father Ted, Are You Being Served?, Eastenders, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Last of the Summer Wine, Cheggs!!!! Steptoe and Son, Old Grey Whistle Test, The Young Ones, Harry Enfield, Motorcross and Dakar Rally and the odd Liverpool match. 'Av you seen my pussy?
As you see Veronica only is interested in light reading :P INVITATION TO A BEHEADING -NABOKOV Being and Nothingness- Sartre Sentimental Education _ Gustav Flaubert Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte Middlemarch- George Elliot Transcendental Analytics- Immanuel Kant ( but I kan!) Portrait of the artist as a young man - Joyce Marcus Aurelius meditations Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller The Bleak House- Charles Dickens The Count of Pontefracto- Alexander Dumas The Wild Palms- William Faulkner anything by Thurber,Henry Fielding, Turgenev surely I would be sitting 'round her table! Not terribly fond of beat writers lest Tom Wolfe. FINNEGANS WAKE - JAMES JOYCE WAKE UP FINNEGAN, BECKETT IS WAITING FOR YE EITHER/OR - SOREN KIERKEGAARDEATS, SHOOTS AND LEAVES - LYNNE TRUSS The Van- Roddy Doyle Mort- Terry Pratchett On Politics- Arthur Miller Frannie and Zoe - Salinger HAVE BEEN TO VERMONT WE BELIEVE WE FOUND JD! TIME AND AGAIN - JACK FINNEY - My literary hero.THE PROPHET KHALIL GIBRAN MAKING HISTORY STEPHEN FRY the FALL - CAMUS A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE BY ANAIS NIN THE TIME TRAVELLERS WIFE VONNEGUT, SOLOGUB, WITTGENSTEIN STRAIT IS THE GATE - ANDRE GIDE AND LEGIONS MORE I BELONG TO BOOKCROSSING AND I READ 3 BOOKS A WEEK!
My beautiful late brother Iain( 1962-1994) my bessy mate who never stopped believing in me and my music I love you Iain, you are the light in my world. My gran ( she was a holocaust survivor, a stage actress and beauty queen and played the mandolin like no one else) ELAINE STRITCH, LOVE ME ETHEL!! MY BORSCHT BELTER Joe Strummer, GLENN TILBROOK, ANDY PARTRIDGE, Todd Rundgren, Tommy Cooper, Lenny Bruce, Sophie Tucker, Mama Cass, IDA KAMINSKA, STEPHEN SONDHEIM, IRA GERSHWIN, ZIGFIELD, ANNE MAGNUSON, BOBBY DARIN, PETER COOK, STEVE COOGAN, OSCAR WILDE,GEORGE HARRISON, SPIKE MILLIGAN AND ZARATHUSTRA