Recording and constructing music and sound. Listening to music and sound. Fortean Phenomenona. Nature. History of North-East Wales. Combating Snobbery. Food, Drink, Laughter.
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND / The Rolling Stones (1964 to 1973) / The Beatles / THE WHO 1965 to 1973 / The Kinks (early stuff) / SMALL FACES / Spike Jones and his City Slickers / Assorted 1960s Girl Groups / Most US & UK Psyche, Garage & Pop music 1960s+70s / The Beach Boys / Motown / Martin Denny / Les Baxter / Late 1960s and early 1970s Easy Listening / 1960s & 70s Assorted French Pop / The Pink Floyd (1966 to 1972) / Nancy Sinatra / THE MOVE / Pentangle / Syd Barrett / Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band / Amen Corner / BBC Radiophonic Workshop / Moondog / Barry Gray / John Barry / Raymond Scott / Desmond Leslie / Ennio Morricone / Sun Ra / Mike Sammes / Martin Denny / various Classical music / TERRY RILEY / Zappa & the Mothers Of Invention / The Doors / The Johhny Almond Music Machine / Fifty Foot Hose / Bulldog Breed / Fairport Convention (the early years) / Soft Machine (prefer the Wyatt years) / Django Reinhardt / Graham Bond Organisation / Cream / Giles, Giles & Fripp / Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band / The Stooges / Family / The Partridge Family / Man / CAN / Tangerine Dream (1970 to 1975) / FAUST / Kluster / Cluster / Conrad Schnitzler / Kraftwerk / Harmonia / NEU! / La Dusseldorf / Amon Duul I & II / Brast Burn / Lou Reed (from debut solo album to MMM) / Black Sabbath (the early years) / Nucleus / DAVID BOWIE / T. Rex / Alice Cooper / Roxy Music (the early years) / Slade / Mott The Hoople / The Sweet / New York Dolls / DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1974-76) / America / Trojan Reggae / Miles Davis (mainly electric era) / Hawkwind (1970 to 1976) / Van Der Graaf Generator / Magma / Nick Drake / Caravan (1968 to 1974) / Gentle Giant (1970-1974) / John Martyn / Genesis (the Peter Gabriel era only!!) / King Crimson (1969 to 1974) / Horslips / Back Door / Weather Report (1971 to 75) / Aphrodite's Child / Terry Riley / ENO / Mahavishnu Orchestra / John Martyn / Peter Hammill (mainly first five albums) / Henry Cow / Fred Frith / Robert Wyatt / most Cantebury Scene stuff / Fripp & Eno / THE RESIDENTS / This Heat / various 1970s Dub / DEVO / The Ramones / Talking Heads / Suicide / Pere Ubu / Holger Czuckay / Sex Pistols / The Damned / Buzzcocks (especially with Devoto) / Wire / THROBBING GRISTLE / Non / Cabaret Voltaire (mainly the early stuff with Chris Watson) / ATV / THE CRAMPS / Chrome / PiL / The Fall / Tuxedomoon / Siouxsie & The Banshees / Swell Maps / Basement 5 / Joy Division / Morgan Fisher (solo and Hybrid Kids) / Magazine / Flipper / New York No Wave / NURSE WITH WOUND / Lemon Kittens / Metabolist / 23 Skidoo / Psychic TV / New Blockaders / SONIC YOUTH / SWANS / Factrix / Birthday Party / Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds / Jah Wobble / Adrian Legg / BUTTHOLE SURFERS / Coil / Kwisp / Lustmord / early Napalm Death / State 808 / Future Sound Of London / Aphex Twin / Bongwater / Painkiller / Lots and Lots of assorted Electronic Music / Martin Archer and the Discus label / Alec Empire / Black Dice / Lightning Bolt / Wolf Eyes / Toolshed / Tortoise / Ektroverde / The Serpents / Guapo / Irr App Ext / Gorky's Zygotic Mynci / Philip Jeck / Ectogram / Parking Non-Stop / Stereolab / Boredoms / Espers...
Too many to mention but here's a few...Night Of The Demon / Female Jungle / The Girl Can't Help It / The Ten Commandments / Mon Oncle / Whose Been Sleeping In My Bed? / Dead Of Night / The Wild One / The Rebel / James Bond 1960s / The Man From U.N.C.L.E. / Curse Of The Crimson Altar / Torture Garden / Peeping Tom / Twins Of Evil / Dr.Terror's House Of Horrors / Carnival Of Souls / Twinky / The Pit And The Pendulum / The Shuttered Room / Masque Of The Red Death / Deathline / The Wicker Man / Eraserhead / The Sorcerers / Cry Of The Banshee / Rosemary's Baby / The Vampire Lovers / The Black Cat / Tower Of Evil / Dracula A.D. 1972 / Duel / Satan's Sadists / Ramrodder / The Trip / The Living Dead at The Manchester Morgue / Get Carter / I Don't Want To Be Born / Mutations / Hell's Angels On Wheels / original version of The Haunting / Vault Of Horror / Scream and Scream Again / The Abominable Dr.Phibes / Dr.Phibes Rises Again / Kes / Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark / Carry On Films / On The Buses / A Clockwork Orange / Duel / Vanishing Point / Blue Velvet / Fu Manchu films / Barbarella / the original Planet Of The Apes / Performance / S.W.A.L.K. / Life Of Brian / It's Alive / Blood Beast Terror / The Holy Mountain / the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Magic / Midnight Express / Scaramush / The Exorcist / The Man Who Loved Women / Mulholland Drive / High Fidelity / Let's Scare Jessica To Death / Legend Of Hell House / Apocalypse Now / the original House On Haunted Hill / Head / Blow Up / ...all things B-Movie style / Kenneth Anger / David Lynch / Jan Svankmajer / The Brothers Quay.
Too much...but again...a few to start with...Doctor Who / The Outer Limits (1960s) / The Twilight Zone / The Man From U.N.C.L.E. / The Stone Tape / Thriller 1970s series / A Ghost Story For Christmas / Nuts In May / The Pink Panther / Abigail's Party / The Trap Door / The Persuaders / Jason King / Twin Peaks / Steve Coogan related material / Life On Mars.....
SOME FAVOURITES: 'The Family' - Ed Sanders / 'Turn Off Your Mind' - Gary Lachman / 'The Shadow Over Santa Susana' - Adam Gorightly / 'The Secret Life of a Satanist' - Blanche Barton / 'On The Road' - Jack Kerouac / 'Backing Into The Limelight' - Mike Sammes / 'From The Velvets To The Voidoids' - Clinton Heylin / 'To Dream Of Freedom:The Story of M.A.C. and The F.W.A' - Roy Clews / 'Stranger In A Strange Land' - Robert Heinlein / 'The October Country' - Ray Bradbury / 'The Illustrated Man' - Ray Bradbury / 'The Bog People' - P.V.Glob / 'King Of The Witches' - June Johns / 'The Outer Limits Companion' - David J. Schow / Various Horror and Fantasy paperbacks from late 1950s and early 1960s especially those published by Ballantine Books / Pan Horror Story paperbacks from 1970s / 'Hollywood Babylon' - Kenneth Anger / 'Time Travel' - Jon Savage / 'Inside The Wicker Man' - Allan Brown / 'All American Ads 1950s' - Ed. Jim Heimann. Magazine Collections: Man, Myth and Magic (1970-71). World Of Wonder (1970-72).
Sir David Attenborough