Member Since: 2/22/2006
Band Website: marvynoates.com
Band Members: Marvyn Oates (vocals and songs), Tim Ash (vocals/guitar), Dan Watson (keyboards), Jon Caulton (Bass) and Danny Rush (drums).
Influences: The Byrds, £1 notes, The Beatles, Jimmy Hill and Match of the Day, The Smiths, Heidi from the Sugababes, The King of Comedy, The Cure, The films of Alfred Hitchcock, Yeti, Ed Moses, Spencer Davis Group, Columbo, Nirvana, Rosemary's Baby, Sandie Shaw, Tom Friedman, Beach Boys, The Catcher in the Rye, Nick Drake, Comedians by Trevor Griffiths, The Doors, Chewits, The Hollies, Election Nights with Peter Snow, Bob Dylan, Roy of the Rovers, The Jam, The Whicker Man, Smokey Robinson, Mean Streets, Kasabian, Operation Goodguys, The commentaries of Barry Davies, Miles Davis, Sex Pistols, Dragan Stojkavic, The Strokes, Dutch total football of the 70's, The Twang, Only Fools and Horses, Electric Prunes, Blow Up, The Verve, Look back in anger by John Osbourne, David Axelrod, Zabreskie point, The Ronettes, Saint Ettienne, Roots by Arnold Wesker, Joe Meek, 80's Grange Hill, Rolling Stones, John Coltrane, Racing with Peter O'Sullivan, Stevie Wonder, A Bout de Souffle, Marvin Gaye, Taxi Driver, Love, Gladstone and Disraeli, Moby Grape, The Stone Roses, Fawlty Towers, The Charlatans, Phil and Grant Mitchell, Dan's Moussaka, George Best, Ride, Valerie Briscoe-Hooks, Teenage Fanclub, Hal, Phil Spector, Coming to America, Get Carter, Swizzel Sticks, Raddy Antic, Doves, Back to the Future, Oasis, Peter Kay, The La's, Delays, On the Waterfront, The Velvet Underground, Automatic by The Pointer Sisters, Egg Fried Rice, The Smiths, Rickenbackers, The Spongers 1977, Happy Mondays, Bournemouth, My Bloody Valentine, La Haine, Cola Cubes, Jack Daniels, Marc Bolan & TREX, Mary Whitehouse Experience, The Kinks, Alan Partidge, Quadrophenia, The Open, The Two Ronnies, The Who, Cup upsets, Super furry animals, The Krays, The Small Faces, Booker T & MG's, Mean Streets, Coldplay, Brazil 1970, Primal Scream, Pulp Fiction, The Philadelphia Flyer, The Specials, The Libertines, The Clash, David Bowie, Uncle Ronnie Biggs and the Great Train Robbery.
Sounds Like: What you've been looking for all your life
Type of Label: None