Member Since: 3/31/2006
Band Website: petewilliams.org.uk
Band Members: Fred Skidmore:Hammond Organ
Danny McCormack:Piano/vocals
Al Gare:Bass/vocals
Dean Beresford:Drums/percussion
Paul Taylor:Trombone
Pete Williams:Singist/Guitar/Uke/Clarinet
Influences: Guillietta Massina,Orlando(funky)Gibbons,Zampano,Fantomas,Cantinflas,Ni
no Rota,Ernest Shackleton,
Sam Sharpe,Francis Albert Sinatra,Johnny Mercer,Jimmy van Heusen,Van Heusen shirts,Roger Whittaker,Elmo Tanner,Pluto Shervington.Stevland Morris,Dan Blocker,Ella F,
Gil Scott Heron,Jaques Tati,Jaques Brel,Jaques Prevert.Marvin Gaye,Slaughter and the dogs,The Sex Pistols,Danny Richmond,Eric Dolphy,Charles Mingus,Oliver Norville Hardy,Patanjali,Master Oyama,Morihei Ueshiba,Fazeru Kurimasu,Dennis Bovell,Jack Hammer,Edward Teach,Capt James Cook,Sam Cooke,Fletcher Christian,The Sailor who fell from grace with the Sea,Eric Arthur Blair,Dmitri Shostakovitch,Eddie Elgar,R.V.Williams,Jerry Lewis,Jerry Lee Lewis,Taraf de Haidouks.Augustus Pablo,Pablo Picasso.
Willem de Kooning.William Bonney,Llangrannogg.Dylan Thomas,Caradog Evans.Pentre Ifan,Jimmy Boyle,Chet Baker.The Sky and the Ocean.That mid 70s May Day bank holiday when me and a friend wandered lonely as clods,on to an industrial estate,We must have been about 13,the shadows of the clouds seemed to move in blustery slow motion and the sun seemed to be racing between em,very vivid. I saw, before I heard, a squad car tearing up the road and a copper get out and walk up to us,
I remember squinting a smile at him,putting my hands in my patch pockets, and looking down at his hands and hearing the click of the press stud on his right glove,then the old big BANG of light and numbing pain noise and I found myself knocked down into an oily puddle with sharp spirals of beautiful livid blue swarf in it.
tasted blood in my mouth,
heard the slam of the car door and the squeal of tyres.Ive never spoke to anyone about this since it happened,That night I watched a great french film called Alphaville.Albert Finney,Joe Buck,John Barry,Marilyn Monroe,Nina Simone,Cervantes,Manitas de Plata,Laurie Lee,Ernesto Bandini,Amalia Rodrigues,Chief Ouray of the Utes,Hamilton Bohannon,Bobo Bulinski,John Donne,Johnny Steinbeck,James Cagney,Archie Belaney,The ringing singing tree,Roger Harbin,David Bowie,Knut Hamsun,Elvis,Elvice Woodlice,Chip Mugrim,Chuck Paudermilch,Clem Chowderer.Randall J.P.McMurphy,Ken Kesey.Amadeo Modigliani,Mary Tudor,Mary Millington,Auntie Kath,Cousin Gwyneth,Blue remembered hills,Ben Houghton,Kip Keno,Bruce Lee,Anna Mae Wong.James Osterburg.E.E.Cummings,Colin Wilson,Natalie Wood,Catherine Deneuve,Simone Signoret.
Sounds Like: Jacques Cousteau,s lonely nautical soul.
solid emptiness.
Record Label: BASEHART RECORDINGS
Type of Label: None