rocknroll, scurrilous pulp, sweets of the '70's, the pull of the moon, elegant vikings, general glamour, pushbikes with backpedal brakes, unicorns, all-night bakeries, air marracas, purple crush velvet and large capers.
the person who broke into my cellar & nicked my bike-lights...
Syd Barrett, Ska & ‘70’s Reggae, The Fall, Pharoah Sanders, DJ Krush, Wanda Jackson, Soul & Northern, Nick Drake, ‘70’s Hawkwind & Pink Fairies, The Magnetic Fields, Glam Excess, Them, John Fahey, Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg, Can, Staple Singers, Stooges, 13th Floor Elevators, Robert Johnson, The Ronettes, Gallon Drunk, Bender, Temptations, Incredible String Band, Brian Eno, Bert Jansch, Patti Smith, Howlin’ Wolf, Cobra Killer, Stereo Total, Arvo Pärt, The Who, Small Faces, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Roxy Music, Swell Maps (for Nikki – Truck on, Tyke!), Wire, Western Swing, Inkspots, Be-bop, Doo-wop, Julian Cope, Faust, Jimmy Reed, Link Wray, Suicide, MC5, V.U., Nico, Sex Pistols, Mott the Hoople, Brian Wilson, Davey Graham, Les Hommes Sauvages, Sonic Youth, Led Zeppelin (…so?), Kevin Coyne, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Edgar Broughton Band, Horace Andy, Marvin Gaye, Lee Perry, Gram Parsons, Musical Soundtracks, Great Horror Movie themes, whistling & humming, birds, cars,ukeleles, etc. ...
Performance, Get Carter, Daisies (Vera Chytilov), The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar), Night of the Hunter, Sin City, Carnival of Souls, Oliver!, The Cremator (Juraj Herz), Chopper, Happiness, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Withnail and I, Blue Murder at St. Trinians, Billy Liar, Living in Oblivion, The Fireman’s Ball (Milos Forman), Spun, Bad Guy (Kim Ki-Duk), The Servant, The Ruling Class, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Time of the Gypsies, The Mummy, Bride of Frankenstein, O Lucky Man, If…, Kes, Cul-de-Sac, Magnolia, Amicus & Hammer Horror...
Shameless, Dr. Who, The Clangers, The Wombles, Addams Family, Munsters.... (got no TV - don't see much).
JG Ballard, William Burroughs, Celine, Boris Vian, James Ellroy, George Bataille, WB Yeats, Christopher Logue, TC Boyle, Paul Auster, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton, Philip K. Dick, Mervyn Peake, The Golden Bough, Don DeLillo, Irvine Welsh ...
The above + Bialystock & Bloom, Ignatius Reilly, Bolckow & Vaughan, Buster Keaton, Whitby, George Harvey Bone, Maltesers, Smarties, etc., etc.