Member Since: 4/17/2006
Band Website: www.comethotel.co.uk
Band Members: ALT, Blu, K. Current and former collaborators: Frank Flood, Big Daddy Dave A, Lianne Carroll, Mick Hutchinson, Steve Cragg (Tibetan Horn, Phil Thornton), Darren Eve (Dana Gillespie, Kokopelli, Fraser Geesin).
Influences: THEN: The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, the Animals, Led Zeppelin, Sandy denny, Fairport Covnetion, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Jefferson Airplane, Robert Fripp, Can, David Bowie, John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed, the velvet Underground, the United Staes of America, Spirit, Bob Dylan, Moby Grape, the Band, Little Feat, Jimi Hendrix, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa (early, anything up to and including One Size Fits All - after that, it's all knob gags and self-indulgent guitar wank), Otis Redding, James Brown, Funkadelic, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Motown, Albert King, Fleetwood Mac (the British blues boom version, not the cocaine cowgirls version), Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Steve Reich, The Small Faces, the Yardbirds, KIng Crimson, Black Sabbath, Free, Quintessence, Pete Brown and Piblokto, Michael Chapman, John Lee Hooker, Cream, Pink Floyd, Iggy Pop.NOW: My Morning Jacket, the Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Rogue Wave, Interpol, Steve Reich, Nickel Creek, CloudDead, Semifinalists, Dee Planche, Pete Doherty, Libertines, New Pornographers.
Sounds Like: Jefferson Airplane, any band with a female vocalist, light-and-dark rock with a touch of psychedelic folk.
Record Label: Our own - Crispy Duck Records