Member Since: 1/20/2006
Influences: Bowie, The Beatles,The Muppet Show, Elliott Smith, The Wannadies, Antenna, Air,The Cardigans, old crackly vinyl stuff, Randy Newman, Jon Brion, Beck, Cat Power, power chords, Lo Fi stuff, Hi fi stuff, some alt country, some alt shift caps lock country, Rufus Wainwright, good ole laughing Len, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley giving it socks with just a Telecaster, Ogden Nash, Weezer, White Stripes, My Bloody Valentine, silly punk stuff, Thomas Hardy (not many people know he had a band. He invented Hardy-Core which matched straight edge punk riffing to pastoral poetry.....) Nina, Billie, Scott Walker, Lee Hazelwood, Nick Cave, Mazzy Star, Harold Arlen, scratchy guitars and depraved blues, Gershwin, lots of 30's and 40's stuff. The type of music made for attic rooms. And The Velvet Underground. And Nico. And reverb. There isn't half enough reverb around. Did I forget Big Star?Magnetic Fields?6ths?And Harry Nilsson?and Graham Coxon?Rollerskate Skinny?They were class; I wonder what became of them...Wes Anderson, James Thurber, that Whistler painting "Nocuturne in Black and Gold", Nouvelle Vague (the album and the movement) Jem Cohen, Magnet, Luis Buneul, John Fahey, Nina Hynes, guitars played through computer speakers, twangy Duane Eddy licks, Adrian Utleys sweet and sour guitar solos for Portishead, Django Rheinhardt, John Barry, Arvo Part, Harpo Marx, Tiny Tim, Serge, Jacques, Boards Of Canada....ah, just call up to the flat and we'll put a record on...
Record Label: Poltergeist Records
Type of Label: Indie