I worship at the church of Cardiacs. Everything else is just hearsay.
Here's some tunes I made...
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I think I would cease to function properly without the following things: music, playing guitar, reading dodgy literature, sunshine & blue skies, music, drinking fermented hops, friends, watching live music, walking on land and in the sea, cycling, quizzes, watching films, music, gaming, camping (the outdoor variety), festivals, climbing up stuff, tresspassing where I shouldn't (AKA Urban Exploration), music, eating potatoes in an assortment of interesting and wonderful ways, and a bit more music...
The wretched smack'ead who stole my guitar a couple of years back...."Why I oughta!"
The obligatory YouTube™ embeds.
Ok, here's a big fat list:
Cardiacs (and all Her offshoots), Frank Zappa, XTC, Björk, Oingo Boingo, The Specials, Clearlake, Polysics, Gomez, Oceansize, The God Machine, P.W.E.I., Muse, Venetian Snares, People Like Us, Wizards of Twiddly, Midlake, Poisoned Electrick Head, Amon Tobin, Ozric Tentacles, Kate Bush, Mandragora, Devo, The Arcade Fire, Melt Banana, Cassetteboy, Soundgarden, Ween, Neil Young, The Beach Boys, Nouvelle Vague, Mew, Butthole Surfers, System of a Down, F.S.O.L., Aphex Twin, LFO, Alice In Chains, The Sugarcubes, Tunng, Syd Barrett, Battles, Jim Noir, Magma, Dead Kennedys, Senser, John Shuttleworth, Kiss the Prezident, The Buzzcocks, Pixies, Back to the Planet, The Beat, Nirvana, Django Reinhardt, Parliament/Funkadelic/George Clinton, PiL, Sonic Youth, Danny Elfman, Futureheads, Can, Magazine, Horace Andy, Sly & Robbie, Killing Joke, Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Beatles, Dreadzone, Eat Static, The Teardrop Explodes, The Selecter, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Squeeze, Fleet Foxes, Avalanches, Dick Dale, Herbie Hancock, Bonzo Dog Band, Led Zeppelin, Arctic Monkeys, Ghengis Grimes, Black Sabbath, Orbital, Gentle Giant, R.D.F., Hallucinogen, North Sea Radio Orchestra, The Stranglers, Bernard Herrmann, Icicle Works, Sam Cooke, Gong, The Kinks, Suns of Arqa, Buddy Holly, The Smiths, Mr. Bungle,
(early) Genesis, Consolidated, Dinosaur Jr., Faith No More, KnifeHandChop, Supergrass, Belly, Sidi Bou Said, Split Enz, Shitmat, Pink Floyd, eX-Girl, Crass, Andy McKee, Spiral Tribe, The Shrubbies, The Orb, Bill Monroe..... Too many more to name. (Did I mention Cardiacs?)
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CURRENT MOON about the moon
Anything by the Coen Brothers, Lars Von Trier, Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, Shane Meadows, Terry Gilliam, Mike Leigh, Alan Parker, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson. Independent cinema. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (extended edition)
League of Gentlemen, Family Guy, Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe, Columbo, Red Dwarf, Spaced, The Simpsons, Nature programmes, Dragons' Den, documentaries, Football, Q.I., Steve Coogan. As little as possible really.
Any books about the English language. Also Christopher Brookmyre, Philip Pullman, Stephen King, J.R.R.Tolkien, Charles Dickens, Bill Bryson, James Herbert, George Orwell, John Wyndham, Edgar Allen Poe and other writers of fiction. I read a lot of humourous books too.
"A Confederacy of Dunces" is a classic.
And also countless reference books. Halliwell's Film Guides are a must!
Tim Smith (Cardiacs), John Peel, Frank Zappa, Bill Hicks, Björk, David Attenbourgh, Fred Dibnah, Stephen Fry, Thomas Edison, Ray Mears, Everton F.C.. And all trees everywhere (you know who you are!)