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Lettie

I wished you were here

About Me

A memory collector of dreams, films, books, words, voices, tapes, old messages, images, yesterday, the other side, colours, newspapers clippings, history, stories, junk, music, seaside towns and above all postcards. Originally from Suffolk, a Medieval History graduate from Glasgow and now residing in an attic somewhere in London. Lettie is mostly influenced by film and will change her tracks just like films........

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/1/2006
Band Website: lettiemusic.com
Band Members:
Influences: Anything original, melodic, cinematic, hypnotic. The films of Federico Fellini, David Lynch, Peter Weir, Ingmar Bergman, Hal Hartley, Jim Jarmusch, Roman Polanski, Pedro Almodovar, Terence Malick, Wim Wenders, Alfred Hitchock, John Waters, Peter Greenaway, Woody Allen, the films Klute, Elephant Man, Company of Wolves, Wild at Heart, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Seventh Seal, Stranger than Paradise, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Fearless, Spirit of the Beehive, Blues Brothers, Night of the Hunter, Fabulous Baker Boys, All About Eve, Sunset Boulevard, The Man with the Golden Arm, Splendor in Grass, The Deer Hunter, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, The Conversation, The Tenant, Withnail and I, The Hitcher (original), Fight Club, Blade Runner, Chinatown, Repulsion, The Swimmer, After Hours, Drugstore Cowboy, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Vacation (Chevy Chase), Trading Places, All Mel Brooke films, Sea of Love, Rumblefish, Days of Wine and Roses, War of the Roses, Groundhog Day, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Betty Blue, French Connection, Cape Fear, Talk Radio, Don't Look Now, Bagdad Cafe,The Last Picture Show, Paris Texas, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Deliverance, Wizard of Oz, Breaking the Waves, Nashville, Fantasia, Tubby the Tuba, Alice's Restaurant, The Last Waltz, The King, Gone With the Wind, Easy Rider, La Strada, 8 1/2, Arlington Road, Lord of War, Ivans xtc, The Player, The Omen, Wonder Boys, Donnie Darko the film soundtracks of Ry Cooder, Angelo Badalamenti and Hal Hartley, the photographs of William Eggleston, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Angus McBean, the paintings of Kandinsky, Klee, Miro, Picasso, Dale Mann, Matisse, Magritte, Peter Blake David Hockney, Doug Aitken, Tomoko Takahashi, Whistler, the dream products of Ronnie Heeps, too many.... The music of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, David Byrne and Talking Heads, J J Cale, Debbie Harry, Gotan Project, Moby, Manu Chou, Kraftwork, Los de Abajos, Laurie Anderson, Tom Waits, Cat Power, Chuck Berry, ballet music, Rimsky-Korsakov, Satie, Chopin, Dvorak, Debussy, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Wim Mertens, the blues of Lightening Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, the poems and illustrations of William Blake, Ted Hughes, Kenneth Patchen, T S Eliot, John Betjeman, Allan Ginsberg, Brecht, Lorca, W H Auden, short stories by Kafka and Maupassant, autobiographies such as Heart Breaking Work of a Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, biographies such as the Lonely Doll, the travel writing of P J O'Rourke, Hunter S Thompson, the books of Hermann Hess and Milan Kundara, story tapes, the music and live performances of Robert LaPage, Tiger Lillies, Slava the Snowshow, Victoria, and Aurelia Chaplin, Laurie Anderson, plays such as Rock and Roll, Vesturport company, the acting of Gene Hackman, Jeff Bridges, Al Pacino, Vivian Leigh, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, Terence Stamp, Christopher Walken, Robert Mitchum, William Hurt, John Hurt, Peter O'Toole, Nathalie Woods, Angelica Houston, Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, Nicholas Cage, Rutger Hauer, Matthew Modine, Giulietta Masina, James Dean, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Michelle Pfieffer, James Spader, Meryll Streep, Susan Sarandon, Tom Hulce, Abbie Cornish, Rhys Ifans, Julie Delpy, Juliet Binoche, Irene Jacob, Tim Robbins, Alain Delon, the cartoons of David Shrigley, the stand up of Sean Hughes, Ed Byrne, Ricky Gervais, Eddie Izzard, TV such as the Prisoner, the Avengers, Twin Peaks, Dallas, Dynasty, Richard and Judy, The Biography Program, Planet Earth, Kitchen Confidential, the museums of Robert Brady in Mexico, the Museum of Theatre, V & A, the Insect Circus, Sharmanka in Glasgow, the trash of National Enquirer the brilliance of Kenneth Angers Hollywood Babylon, the Radio of KCRW, Late Junction, Mixing It, BBC2, BBC6, the sport of Miniature Golf and many many many more things so long as it's colourful..............
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Outerworld Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

I Wished You Were Here

I have never been to San Francisco ....So Spring came and then it snowed.  I am very confused.  I have spent much of the week end jumping from piano to casio to guitar and trying to play eve...
Posted by Lettie on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:30:00 PST

Sad

My least favourite months of the year are November and February. November slid into December and that was the first mark and February was the worst I had ever experienced. I really do not know how to ...
Posted by Lettie on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:19:00 PST

Back

I have now returned from America where I had the most wonderful time recording with David once more. I am extremely lucky to have had this opportunity to be able to record and work with someone so tal...
Posted by Lettie on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:38:00 PST

Its A Wonderful Life

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!So here's to Christmas and the New Year. I've been reading a few blogs so I feel like I'm getting the gist.I've really enjoyed dipping my toe back in the water this year with ...
Posted by Lettie on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:55:00 PST

One Day Youll Say I Cant Come Around No More

Please go to my website for more news as I need to get the hang of the blog thing.I am doing one last gig before Christmas at the Betsey Trotwood on Thursday 13th December and maybe one at Nunhead the...
Posted by Lettie on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:36:00 PST

Worry

I worry a lot.  It's all because I never got the red slippers and had to make do with the blue ones!I was listening to some people who had found me on myspace and so I accepted all cause I'm grat...
Posted by Lettie on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:16:00 PST

Hello

I just wanted to say hello&&.. I have written about 20 songs with my friend and brilliant composer producer David Baron 'Edison' (High and All You Want amongst others) who I met on myspace through an ...
Posted by Lettie on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:07:00 PST