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..............
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Record Label: Outerworld Records
Type of Label: Indie