Music:
Member Since: 3/6/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/theknockingshop
Band Members: Derek Barter - Bass guitar, vocals
David 'Kid Gretsch' Connolly - Guitar, vocals
Seamus Duggan - Vocals
Eoin 'Skins' Hanna - DrumsOther members
'Ozzie John' Healy - Drums
Albert Cowan - DrumsSpecial Guest Star
Paddy Brady - Guitar
Influences: Beer, unemployment, boredom and football.
Seamus' List - (I won't speak for the others but mine include(d)):
Louis Armstrong, The Auteurs, Agnes Bernelle, Big Black, Big Star, The Birthday Party, The Blades, Blondie, Billy Bragg, Captain Beefheart, Buzzcocks, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Alex Chilton, The Clash, Lenard Cohen, Elvis Costello, The Count Five, Country Joe & The Fish, The Cramps, Ivor Cutler, The Dead Kennedys, Desperate Bicycles, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Jim Dickinson, Bob Dylan, Echo & The Bunnymen, Einsturzende Neubaten, The (mighty) Fall, The Fatima Mansions, Foetus, Gang of Four, The Go-Betweens, Vic Godard, The Golden Horde, Woody Guthrie, Half Man, Half Biscuit, Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra, John Lee Hooker, Howling Wolf, Husker Du, Iggy & the Stooges, The Jam, Joy Division, The Kinks, Link Wray, Luggage, Madness, Magazine, Microdisney, Momus, The Monks, Morrisey, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Willie Nelson, Orange Juice, Gram Parsons, John Peel, Pere Ubu, PIL, The Pixies, The Pogues, Elvis Presley, The Radiators, The Ramones, The Saints, Scritti Politti, Serious Drinking, The Sex Pistols, The Skids, Slade, The Smiths, Son House, The Sonics, Sonic Youth, Sparks, The Specials, Carl Stalling, The Stars of Heaven, Stiff Little Fingers, Swell Maps, Patti Smith, The Subway Sect, Talking Heads, Tav Falco Panther Burns, Television, That Petrol Emotion, Them, Thin Lizzy, Richard & Linda Thompson, Those Handsome Devils, The Undertones, Tom Waits, Wire, X Ray Spex, XTC, Neil Young, The Young Gods, The Zombies
Some of Eoins' influences follow -
Zappa, Neil Young, Primus, Captain Beefheart, Oysterhead, Television, Public Enemy, King Crimson, David Sylvian, De la Soul, Can, Kraftwerk, Steely Dan, That Petrol Emotion, PJ Harvey, PIL ,Bomb the BasS, Neneh Cherry, Portishead, Cameo, Beck, MC5, Patti Smith, dinosaur jr, Giles Contraire, Alice Cooper, Buffalo Springfield, Cocteau Twins, Prince, Youssou N'dour, The Specials /Special AKA, The Beat.
Sounds Like: A dreamlike merging of Mark E Smith and Bob Dylan backed by the Velvet Underground (featuring Hubert Sumlin) with strings by the Russian Philharmonic scored by Shostakovitch with backing voclas by Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin and Patti Smith - guitar overdubs by Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd with extra rhythm from Talking Heads with atmospheric sounds provided by Brian Eno in collaboration with Pere Ubu and additional percussive sounds by Einsturzende Neubaten.
This soundscape is then recreated without any of the above.
Record Label: It could be you
Type of Label: None
