Music:
Member Since: 6/18/2006
Band Website: numberonemusic.com/cultoftheblues
Band Members: Angus Gillies with Tui Gillies, my wife, on backing vocals. Sometimes I jam, both privately and publicly, with my younger brother Duncan, calling ourselves The Apocalyptic Folk Club.
Influences: Music:XXXXXXXLocally: Duncan Gillies, The Apocalyptic Folk Club, Iain Gillies, Flora Gillies (mum, who paid for the first guitar lessons), Elaine Gillies, The Simmonds family, particularly Steve and Mick, but also Patrick, Jane and Julia, John Taituha, Scott Taituha, Mihaka Wawatai, Phil Wawatai, Dominic Tiepa, Les Dooling, Ewen Fielder, the late Miles McKenzie, Tony Murdoch, Nick Hohepa and The Dogs Bollix, particularly Connor McSweeney and "Swigger".XXXXXXXXXXXX
Internationally: Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, all the old bluesmen, particularly John Lee Hooker, Mississippi John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, RL Burnside, JB Lenoir, Lightnin' Hopkins and Reverend Gary Davis, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Chuck Prophet, David Bowie, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes, Tony Joe White, Steve Earle, Nick Cave, Bob Marley, Chris Whitley, Guy Clark, The Black Eyed Peas, NWA, 7A3, all those old black harmonising gospel singers like the Golden Gate Quartet, the Edwin Hawkins Singers and the Blind Boys of Alabama, Ryan Adams, Beck, all those latin funk dudes like Ray Barretto and the Lebron Brothers, Miles Davis, Lou Reed, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, the Velvet Underground, The Stranglers, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Marc Bolan and T. Rex, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Groove Armada, Led Zeppelin, The Waterboys, King Crimson, Captain Beefheart, the Beach Boys, Fela Ransom Kuti, Hank Williams, Ray Charles, RJD2, DJ Shadow, Gnarls Barkley, The Gorillaz, World Party, Handl, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Happy Mondays, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Louis Jordan, Woodie Guthrie, Radiohead, Dr John, the MC5, U2, KanYe West, Snoop Dogg, all that Blaxploitation era funk, disco, The Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Jestofunk, The Violent Femmes, The Sweet, The White Stripes, Loretta Lynn, Mike Oldfield, Vivaldi.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWriting:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXLocally: Iain Gillies, Duncan Gillies, John Gillies, Steve Simmonds, Thomas Mitchell, James George, Joan Rosier-Jones, Witi Ihimaera, Albert Wendt, Robb Armstrong, Mike Johnson, Maurice Gee, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, Chad Taylor, John Matheson, Kirsty Gunn, Tony Ciprian, Richard Langston, Tom Scully, Judith White, Paul Yurisich, Alistair Campbell, Cath Dunsford.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXInternationally: Knut Hamsun, Paul Bowles, Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, Mikhail Bulgakov, Emmanuel Carrere, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack Black, Charles Bukowski, Jeah Rhys, Ivan Turgenev, Bob Dylan, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Mohammed Mrabet, Raymond Carver, Harry Crews, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, James Lee Burke, Herman Hesse, Nik Cohn, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Shirley Jackson, Tobias Wolff, Alina Reyes, Barry Gifford, Jean Cocteau, David Adams Richards, Graham Greene, Duncan McLean, Frederick Exley, Clarence Cooper Jnr, Rainer Maria Rilke, Carson McCullers, William Burroughs, William Burroughs Jnr, Jim Carroll, Jim Tully, Nathanael West, James Elroy, John Healy, Roland Topor, Sylvina Ocampo, Ian McEwan, Henry Miller, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Hunter S Thompson, Arthur Rimbaud, Joseph Campbell, Pete Dexter, James Joyce, John Healy, Anna Kavan, JD Salinger, The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Vladimir Nabakov, JG Ballard, Albert Camus, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Franz Kafka, Tennessee Williams, Jane Bowles, Marek Hlasko, Rumi, Guy de Maupassant, Stephen King, Barry Gifford, Kathy Acker, Don De Lillo, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXSOCC
ER: Locally: Iain Gillies, John Gillies, Duncan Gillies, Archie Gillies, Shane Gillies, Rogie Gillies, Catherine Gillies, Marianne Gillies, Pete Third, John Hill, Harry Kennnedy, Marty Ryan, Kevin Fallon.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXInternationally: Iain Gillies, Pele, John Hill, Ronaldinho, Maradona, George Best, Jerry Daly, Joe Jordan, Billy Bremner, Roy Aitken, Thierry Henry.
Sounds Like: ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Type of Label: None
