Member Since: 2/10/2006
Band Website: www.smilex.co.uk or www.boywithatoy.co.uk
Band Members: Lee Christian - all writing, voices, instruments, programming and production. unless otherwise stated (in lyric page).
Influences: wow! where to start?! musical: prince- first and foremost/ nine inch nails/ tricky/ beck/ marilyn manson/ bjork/ pj harvey/ tori amos/ suede/ radiohead/ sex pistols/ henry rollins/ on-u-sound/adrian sherwood/ living colour and all solo/ terence trent d'arby (sananda maitreya)/ george clinton/funkadelic d'angelo/ outkast/ ice-t/ ice cube/n.w.a/good dre/ good eminem/ pre-posthumous tupac/ mf doom/public enemy/ mars volta/atd-i nirvana/ aphex twin/ unkle/dj shadow goldie/ltj bukem/ depeche mode/ u2 w/eno... emf/!!!/ faith no more/ pre-californication chili's/ deftones/ scott weiland/stone temple pilots/velvet revolver/guns 'n'roses rage against the machine/ soundgarden/ pearl jam/ jane's addiction/perry farrell/porno for pyros skunk anansie/ rub ultra/ therapy?/ bowie/ john lennon/beatles jimi hendrix/ bob marley/ miles davis/ lee perry/ led zeppelin/ kiss/ billy corgan in various distillations! just got mentally into motley crue - all eras! i shall come back to this one...otherwise heroes: bruce lee, cassius clay/muhammed ali, tim burton, pele, shakespeare...that sounds naff!tv past and present- twin peaks, chris morris stuff, v, saturday night live, fawlty towers, everybody hates chrisfilms i like for lots of different reasons - batman, batman returns, any tim burton really! scarface, buffalo66, 24hour partypeople, party monster, mean girls, dead man, todd solondz stuff, kevin smith stuff, un chien andelieu, loads of asian horror and martial arts like itchi the killer, audition, ong bak etc...romeo and juliet, the crow,natural born kilers, harlem nights, dead presidents, strange days, friday, point break, predator, zoolander, requiem for a dream, marvel superhero movies, queen of the damned, naked lunch, team america, spinal tap, cb4, jerkbeast, dusk til dawn, house of 1000corpses, the heart is deceitful above all things, girl interrupted, terry crews who's in white chicks, soul plane and malibu's most wanted and plays chris' dad in everybody hates chris rules!ashamed to say my reading is largely rock biography based as i am obsessed but am trying to get through 'a boy named it' without it killing my days off with depression, pick up and put down 'cannabis culture' between tales of rock'n'roll excess and pursuit of the thirteenth note...some good ones: the dirt, hammer of the gods, purple reign - good for non geeks but i have read over 10 prince books! mick wall i think wrote a great chilis one and there is a good perry farrell one i cant find now, obviously 'the long hard road out of hell' and 'fight the power' and 'get in the van' are lesser known classics as is 'the ice opinion'. i find the cobain journals a bit unsettling to read all at once. in fact nirvana and kurt books bum me out. am borrowing howl by ginsberg and dipping in and out of some marquis de sade as it is quite heavy going. speaking of which burrows's naked lunch blew my mind but kerouac's dharma bums did not really grab me...bible's a good book actually but new testament is boring. old testament rocks tho'! shakespeare rules, adrian henri is cool and there is a scat jazz poet called tom raworth i revisit yearly. my friend emily gray is inspirational too! she wrote monologues for mbicr and still writes beautifully as well as being a phenomenal artist too! voleska rocks local underground art too! artwise i am no intellectual but dig dali, basquiat, erte, all good deco, some warhol, giger, mc. escher and appreciate some glass and bronze due to my awesome ex-fashion designer and artist mom who is largely responsible for any apreciation of art at all! borrowing mein kamf and no logo next to see what the fuss is about next reckon...but first the ike turner autobiography is next on the agenda! mmm...
Sounds Like: what is in my head. messy as that may be!
Record Label: www.quickfixrecordings.co.uk
Type of Label: Indie