Music:
Member Since: 1/28/2006
Band Website: brotherbastion.co.uk
Band Members: Just one - David Nilsson Thorpe: vocals, guitar, kick drum, foot-maraca, human beat-box and anything else I can squeeze in!
Influences: John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash, Dead Kennedys (Jello era only, not now!), Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, Richard Thompson, Billie Holliday, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Black Sabbath (with Ozzy), Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, The Damned, Iggy Pop, Velvet Underground, Love, Funkadelic, Parliament, Sex Pistols, Al Green, Frank Zappa, Kraftwerk, Napalm Death, Squarepusher, John Martyn, Devo, Ennio Morricone, Faith No More (and anything else Mike Patton has done), Minutemen (and pretty much everything else Mike Watt has done), Led Zepplin, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, and Loudon Wainwright III, The Pixies, Link Wray, Fishbone, KRS One, BRMC, Dread Zepplin, Rage Against the Machine, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Horace Andy, Roots Manuva, The Orb, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Cypress Hill, Rolling Stones, System of a Down, Spinal Tap, The Smiths, Janis Joplin, Red Snapper, Pearl Jam, Jawbone, Johnny Thunders, Rob Bass & DJ Easy Rock, The Roots, NWA, Anthrax, The Zutons, Dinosaur Jr. Blind WIllie McTell, Devandra Banhart, Clint Eastwood & General Saint, Louis Armstrong, James Brown, Gomez, Stringybark McDowell, Curtis Mayfield, Gorillaz, Sitting on the benches in Albert Square in Manchester just watching all the people go by, Hamell on Trial, Accrington Stanley FC, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Muddy Waters, The Beatles, The Who, Mulligan & O'Hare, Eek-a-Mouse, Massive Attack, Van Morrison, R.E.M., AC/DC, Roy Harper, Sonic Youth, Sepultura, Bo Diddley, Jeffrey Lewis, Donovan, Motorhead, Beth Orton, Joan Armatrading, Madonna, Talking Heads, Christie Moore, Chemichael Brothers, DJ Shadow, Mudhoney, Green Day, Run DMC, Elvis (Presley AND Costello), Madness, Ella Fitzgerald, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Stiff Little Fingers, Primus, Slayer, Angelina Jolie, BB King, Black Flag, Beck, The Ramones, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Smashing Pumpkins, Husker Du, Manu Chao, The White Stripes, Oukasts, Woody Guthrie, Bill Withers, The Wurzels, Ewan McColl, THe Pogues, Belle & Sebastian, Queens of the Stone Age, Deftones, Bee Gees, Bad Brains, Blind Boys of Alabama, Alabama 3, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, Willie Nelson, Leftfield, The Specials, Michael Caine, Jane's Addiction, Jurassic 5, Beta Band, Leadbelly, Afrika Bambaata, Bob Marley, Fiona Apple, Q-Bert, Sly and the Family Stone, Jon Butler Trio, John Peel, Mark Radcliffe and Lardy Boy....... to name just a few!
Sounds Like: It's been said that I remind people of Woody Guthrie, Bert Jansch, Led Zep, Cat Stevens and even Bob Mould! I've also been described as Lancashire's very own El Mariachi and an English Johnny Cash recently, and someone even referred to me as a one-man Clash, so make what you will of that...!I like to think whatever or whoever I may sound like, that I still sound like where I'm from, no point doing it otherwise!
Type of Label: None
