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Planet Claire

It Don't Mean a Thing If You Ain't Got That Swing!

About Me



My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/31/2006
Influences:

Music:

Adam & the Ants, Add 'n' To X, Air, Android 80s, Andy Votel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Arctic Monkeys, Astrud Gilberto, Barry Adamson, Beach Boys, Beatles, Blondie, Blossom Dearie, Bob Lind, Burt Bacharach, Caetano Veloso, Can, Candie Payne, Caribou, Carol King, Chet Baker, Chopin, Claudine Longet, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Curtis Mayfield, Daft Punk, Dave Brubeck, David Bowie, David Holmes, Dengue Fever, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Edgar 'Jones' Jones, Elvis Costello, Erik Satie, Everything But the Girl, Fifth Dimension, France Gall, Francis Lai, Georgie Fame, The Go! Team, Hot Chip, Jackie Mittoo, Jacques Loussier, Jamie Lidell, Jarvis Cocker, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Jimmy Webb, Joanna Newsom, John Barry, John Cooper Clarke, Johnny Harris, Joyzipper, Lee Hazlewood, Little Barrie, Love, The Mamas & Papas, Marcos Valle, Marlene Shaw, Miam Monster Miam, Michael Jackson, Michel Legrand, Moog Cookbook, Monsieur Meuble, Murmurs of Tension, Nancy Sinatra, Nick Cave, Nino Ferrer, Os Mutantes, Phoenix, Pink Floyd, Pizzicato Five, Pop Levi, Prefab Sprout, Pulp, Quincy Jones, Richard Hawley, Roy Budd, Saint Etienne, Sebastien Tellier, Serge Gainsbourg, Sixto Rodriguez, Squarepusher, Stereolab, Stevie Wonder, Super Furry Animals, The Bees, The Cramps, The Cubical, The Cure, The Doors, The Dragons, The Jam, The Third Wave, Tindersticks, Tipsy, Tom Waits, Toy, Wilco, Wire, Zombies

Film:

12 Angry Men, 24 Hour Party People, C'est Arrive Pres de Chez Vous, Cinema Paradiso, City of God, Control, Dead Man's Shoes, El Metodo, Funny Games, Get Carter, It's a Wonderful Life, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Lost in Translation, Mademoiselle, Man Bites Dog, Old Boy, Requiem for a Dream, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, A Room for Romeo Brass, Sexy Beast, Spoorlos, That Darn Cat, The Italian Job, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Truman Show, The Party, The Wicker Man, This is England, Pleasantville

TV:

24, Bullseye, Dallas, Family Fortunes, Family Guy, Grange Hill, Happiness, Happy Days, I am Alan Partridge, Life on Mars, One Summer, Phoenix Nights, Porridge, Prisoner Cell Block H, The Office, The Phil Silvers Show, The Pink Panther, The Shield, The Simpsons, This Life, The Love Boat, Twilight Zone, The 4400

Books/Authors:


Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, Freaky Dancin' - Bez, Irvine Welsh, Paul Auster, Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Maconie, Rupert Thomson, Songs They Never Play on the Radio - James Young, The Dice Man - Luke Rheinhard, the Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera, L'etranger - Albert Camus/p)
Sounds Like: The theme tune from "Terry and June"
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Collecting nutters

Coming from a long line of extroverts (at the age of 75, my Grandad used to play violin outside Dolcis with a seagull on his hat), I find myself increasingly drawn towards the more, shall we say,...
Posted by Planet Claire on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:12:00 PST

Ten favourite websites

I have recently found myself waking up at ungodly hours of the morning. Last week I was wide awake at 3am on a Tuesday morning and spent 5 hours on MySpace I wondered to myself what ever di...
Posted by Planet Claire on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:17:00 PST