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About Me

Light Aircraft on Fire is a lo-fi music project that draws influence from several genres - in particular, psychedelic pop, alternative-folk, indie-pop and the avant-garde. Major influences include Bob Dylan, Donovan, Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals, The Incredible String Band, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, early Van Morrison, The Flaming Lips, Kraftwerk, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Syd Barrett, Graham Coxon, Thom Yorke, Luke Haines, The Smiths, and plenty of other good stuff.

If I send you a friend request, it means that I would genuinely like to be friends with you and/or, I really like your music and would like to hear more of it. Yus. Thanks again to everyone who has listened, commented, messaged, said nice things and wanted to be friends. It means a lot.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/24/2006
Band Website: This is it
Band Members: Adrian: voice, guitars, keyboard, tambourine, xylophone, recorder, harmonica, samples, tuneless violin, clarinet, various elements of miscellaneous percussion, and the machines that make fuzzy noises.
Influences: Alice in Wonderland. The Fall. Old books. Antique shops. Carnivals. The countryside. Tom Waits. Loneliness. Radiohead. Psychedelia. Clouds Taste Metallic. Pseudonyms. Joseph Merrick. Acid Folk. French Pop. Rocky Dennis. D.I.Y. Twee as Fuck. Thom Yorke. The Madcap Laughs. Fassbinder films. The expressionists. In The Aeroplane Over the Sea. Heartache. The Man with the Cabbage for a Head. British folk. White rabbits. Faded seaside glamour. Luke Haines. Dusk at Cubist Castle. The impressionists. Jules Verne. The existentialists. Even Dwarfs Started Small. 70's sitcoms. Listening to The Smiths. The Wind in the Willows. A beautiful girl (preferably one with a look of forlorn melancholy). Robert Wyatt. Astral Weeks. Jean Luc Godard. The situationist movement. Promenade. The Milk Eyed Mender. Daniel Johnston. Walking on the wings of an aeroplane. Water babies. Eraserhead. Ballooning. Men made of tin. S.F. Sorrow. Roy Lichtenstein... and the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Sounds Like: The theme tune to some Japanese kid's show, circa 1966. Take a listen to the music player in the top right-hand corner to give you an idea.
Record Label: Rack & Ruin
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Of Your Beautiful Eye Dripping Blue EP

"Of Your Beautiful Eye Dripping Blue" is the second official EP from Light Aircraft on Fire; originally titled "Rainbow Ribbons". 1. In the Garden of the Mayfl...
Posted by Light Aircraft on Fire on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:03:00 PST

Grandmas Kettledrum Blues

I've uploaded a very rough version of a song called "Grandma's Kettle Drum Blues", recorded directly onto tape cassette using a Dictaphone earlier this afternoon. It's mostly about death and the...
Posted by Light Aircraft on Fire on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:27:00 PST

Rainbow Ribbons EP

Rainbow Ribbons This is my second EP. It has taken me over a year to write all the songs and put it all together, though this is mostly because I've discarded around twenty to thirty songs tha...
Posted by Light Aircraft on Fire on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:30:00 PST

Laser Eyes Rides the Unicorn 7

1. Laser Eyes Rides the Unicorn2. My Head is Like a Mushroom Cloud Songs © 2007, Adrian Pennington Listen with earphones at a substantial volume to ...
Posted by Light Aircraft on Fire on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:27:00 PST

Change of name (and other stuff)...

So, I had to change my recording name for the simple reason that far too many people were already using the name "Laughing Stock". This was a really tough decision to make, because I'd already b...
Posted by Light Aircraft on Fire on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:45:00 PST

Here I dreamt I was a filmmaker...

This is a film that was shot in late 2004, and completed in early 2005. It was my 6th short film as director, and the one that I was most pleased with at the time.Posted By:Ste Get this vi...
Posted by Light Aircraft on Fire on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:31:00 PST

A Nosebleed Triggered the End of the World...

A Nosebleed Triggered the End of the World: An Assortment of Badly Recorded Psychedelic Pop Songs and Ambient Mood Pieces (Recorded - June to November, 2005). 1. ...
Posted by Light Aircraft on Fire on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:51:00 PST

Here I dreamt I was an artist...

The other day, when sorting the spare bedroom, I found some old drawings, some going as far back as 1998. Now that I finally have a working scanner, I decided to pop them onto the computer, as m...
Posted by Light Aircraft on Fire on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:57:00 PST

Inventing Words to Make Your Headache...

This is my first EP, the track listing is as follows... 1. An Introduction to Modern Literature, Pts. 1 & 2 2. Lighter Than Air Balloons 3. The Railway Children 4. Let the Dust Filter Do...
Posted by Light Aircraft on Fire on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:32:00 PST