Music:
Member Since: 24/04/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/thesunsbanduk
Band Members: Dave Lloyd (Lead Vocals and Guitar), Markus Mulholland (Bass and Vocals) and Simon Garland (Percussion and Vocals)
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Influences:
70's West Coast, 60's Folk/Psych, Bossanova, Surf Music, Powerpop, Tropicalia, Guilty Pleasures...plus a cast of thousands of artists that there isn't the space to mention...
...but we'll mention some of them anyway...
Wings, Badfinger, The Church, Big Star, Ojos De Brujo, The Twilight Singers, The Clash, Nick Drake, Josh Rouse, Bebel Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Suba, DJ Shadow, Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, Marty Willson-Piper, Jeff Buckley, The Cocteau Twins, Marc Bolan, Chris Bell, Duncan Browne and Metro, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Can, Matthew Sweet, Sector 27, Cruzados, The Treble Spankers, that amazing song 'Dove' by Moony, The Posies, Beachwood Sparks, The Rain Parade, Judee Sill, Boards Of Canada, Teenage Fanclub, Starbuck, Cafe Del Mar, Pizzicato Five, Noctorum, Los Indios Tabajaras, Nada Surf, Stephen Malkmus, Matthew Jay, Pink Floyd, The Tragically Hip, Bert Jansch, Sonic Youth, early Eagles (when they were a four piece), Nouvelle Vague, Wendy And Bonnie, Jean Claude Vannier, Elliot Smith, The Shazam, Shirley Horn, Minnie Riperton, Blur, Sweet, Grant Lee Buffalo, Doves, 10CC, Air, Supercar, Cheap Trick, Kate Bush, Richard Hawley, Big Country, Andrew Gold, Rita Lee, Os Mutantes, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Beck, Serge Gainsbourg, Comsat Angels, Space Raiders, Cornelius, Thin Lizzy, Gary Lloyd, Dreamgirl, The Ozeds, Ardal Cravan & The 3rd Eye Colossus, The Kings Of Infinite Space, Heyday, Phil Smith, Chrystal Van, The Dick Smith Band, Zion Train, The Dukes Of Stratosphear, The Wondermints, Groove Armada, Supertramp, The Carpenters, Phoenix, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band...but still the biggest influence of them all is that feeling you get when the weather is nice enough to go outside wearing just a t-shirt!
Books:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Outside The Dog Museum and White Apples by Jonathan Carroll, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night by Mark Haddon, The Bridge by Iain Banks, Voice Of The Fire by Alan Moore, Super Cannes by J.G.Ballard, Platform by Michel Houlllebecq, Weaveworld by Clive Barker, Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, anything at all by Haruki Murakami
Films:
The Big Lebowski, Diva, Motorcycle Diaries, Spinal Tap, Talk To Her, Abre Los Ojos, Ghost In The Shell, Oldboy, Volver, Capricorn One, Thunderbolt And Lightfoot, Drugstore Cowboy, Starship Troopers, Alien, Solaris, Lost In Translation, The Big Blue, Cloverfield, Silent Running, Way Out West, Sexy Beast, anything by Woody Allen, especially Stardust Memories
Sounds Like: Sounds like The Suns, funnily enough.
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie
