Benway Miasma

Music:

Member Since: 6/19/2006
Band Website: dailymotion.com/video/x16pax_sojatuss_a
Band Members: Cocks n Cunts
Influences: (In random recall order) Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, REM, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, David Bowie, Barbara Rucksack, David Lynch, Saul Williams (Niggy! Nothing!!), John Kricfalusi, Angelo Badalamenti, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Turin Brakes (1st album only you wasteful, wasteful boys!), White Stripes, Mercury Rev, Rufus Wainwright, Nirvana, The Dirty Three (and Warren Ellis in general...), Leonard Cohen, Jacques Brel, Josh T. Pearson, The Kills, Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould, Sugar, Radiohead, The Smiths, The Family Mahone, Woodie Guthrie, pianos, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Arab Strap, Pink Floyd, Grant-Lee Phillips/Buffalo, The Dead Kennedies, Pixies, Deerhoof, Nina Simone, Thelonius Monk, PJ Harvey, The Dresden Dolls, Stranglers, Violent Femmes, Gang Of Four, XTC, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Jeffrey Lewis, Syd Barrett, Jethro Tull, The Dandy Warhols, Andy Warhol, The Bad Plus, The Fall...er... others... like The Birthday Party ... and Grinderman.
And D'arcy Wretsky just for being so cool... and gorgeous...

And now we move pompously on to books - for 'tis not just the lyrics they've influenced... hence the claim of pomposity...
Milan Kundera, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Paulo Coelho, Chuck Palahniuk, William Burroughs, Angela Carter, Haruki Murakami, Jeanette Winterson, Dr Seuss, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, J.G. Ballard, Jack Kerouac, Paul Auster, Tom Stoppard, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel García Márquez...
Oh, and apparently - according to an excellent conga player - there's a bit of Dylan Thomas in there too... whaddya know, eh?!
Sounds Like: Dinosaurs wanking off into a time-machine.
Record Label: ...oohh they're looking for us...
Type of Label: None