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Sparks Will Fly

About Me

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Member Since: 05/03/2006
Band Members: This ship is steered and crewed by the self invested Professor Sparks will Fly.
Influences: Kurt Vonnegut. Global Communication. Andy Wetherall. Paul Auster. The Smiths. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. Iain Banks. Boards of Canada. The Pastels. Haruki Murakami. Ryu Murakami. Richard Thompson. John Martyn. Nick Drake. Bob Dylan. John Steinbeck. Lambchop. Rufus Wainwright. Alasdair Gray. Alasdair Roberts. Lee Hazelwood. Beta Band. Lone Pigeon. King Creosote. gruff rhys. The Earlies. The Bees. Linton Kwesei Johnson. Toots and the Maytals. Trojan Records. Shrug. Jesus and Mary Chain. The Drifters. Pixies. Neil Young. My Bloody Valentine. Ultra Vivid Scene. Velvet Underground. William Kotzwinkle. Luna. Galaxy 500. Robert Crumb. Sam Cooke. Nina Simone. Bill Withers. Al Green. Curtis Mayfield. Stevie Wonder. Gil Scott Heron. Gil Evans. John Irving. Spacemen 3. Pale Saints. Pale Fountains. XTC. Tom Waits. Talk Talk. Cocteau Twins. 4AD. Spike Milligan. The Beatles. Motown. Stax. The Drifters. The James Orr Complex. Space Raiders. Orbital. Mike Paradinis. Simon Armitage. Ted Hughes. Lemon Jelly. Aphex Twin. Schneider tm. Joe Boyd. Elvis Costello. Ian Dury. Carole King. Irma Thomas. The Earlies. Orbital. Plaid. Mohammed Ali. Thom Jones. Lick Holden. Cannonball Adderley. Louis Armstrong. Miles Davis. Chet Baker. Sun Ra. John Coltrane. City Slang Records. Andy White. Pale Fountains. Pale Saints. Rory Mcleod. Prefab Sprout. Kocani Orchestra. Martin Stephenson and the Daintees. Bill Drummond. KLF. Simon Armitage. John Cooper Clarke. The Stairs. The Cure. Ivor Cutler. Stone Roses. Happy Mondays. Sweet Thursday.
Sounds Like: MP3 "LAMBENT EP" featuring "Hole in her Stocking" now available from http://www.northernstarrecords.co.uk/
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

We are here on earth to fart around.Don't let anybody tell you any different. Kurt Vonnegut

April 11, 2007 Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84 By DINITIA SMITH Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterh...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:09:00 GMT

Hungry

HUNGRY 'Happy 33rd Birthday Frank. Don't get too drunk! Lots of love Mam and Dad.' In his Brighton flat, Frank threw a rueful smile to his mirrored self, as he balled the red envelope in his palm and...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:37:00 GMT

Kurt Vonnegut

New book "a man without a country" is amazing. Written by a man with a heart and soul the size of a continent, if not a planet. The man mainlines truth. And I quote, " The arts are not a way...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:23:00 GMT

Still got it

 He was going to have to stop the smoking. He'd woken up coughing green again, sweat soaked, gasping for the dawn air. Days just shouldn't start this way. Sure he was 57 soon but he'd always kept...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:30:00 GMT

Pants

Slacks, trousers or pantaloons, call them what you will, all I know is that they are going to be the death of us all.  I'm not some kind of naturist nut, claiming that clothes are the devil's wor...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:28:00 GMT