Phil Dale

Music:

Member Since: 05/07/2006
Band Website: http://www.wupadupa.com
Band Members: Arms and legs and things.
Influences: Anything that made me think, laugh, cry or move and anything that stopped me thinking, laughing, crying or moving. Most of all, the wind and the sea.
Sounds Like: a badger in stoat's clothing or a herd of cows, frollicking and sipping cocktails in a luxurious roof garden pool. You decide...

Phil's Interests:

The Stuff In General: Music, art, film, poetry, festivals, travels, food from the growing to the eating, hillwalking and woodswandering, rock climbing and mountaineering, foraging, bushcraft, ecology, permaculture, cycling, community, communication, education, being silly.
Music: Cuban Son, Funk, Dub and African music make me move, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Tim and Jeff Buckley, The folk music of these lovely Isles, traditional music everywhere but especially in the Balkans, all the Wupadupa and Small World artists, Ani DiFranco, John Martyn, Damien Rice, Ben Harper, Buffy Saint-Marie, Simon and Garfunkel, Sufjan Stevens, Christel Alsos, Meshell Ndegeocello - Bitter, Hendrix, Bob Marley, The Beatles, Rare Psychedelic tracks as procured by my friend Mark, Otis Reading, Jill Scott, Shuggie Otis, Tower of Power, Ibrahim Ferrer, Arsenio Rodriguez, Amalia Rodriguez, Gheorghe Zamfir, Tubular Bells - Oldfield, Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, '70s Queen, Goldfrapp, Abba, Giant Leap, Son House, Albert King, John Surman, Mike Westbrook, Bix Beiderbeck, Weather Report, Miles Davis with Gil Evans, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stacey Kent, Edith Piaf, Doris Day, Rothko Chapel - Feldman, Vox Balaenae - Crumb, Motets - Gabrielli, Takemitsu piano music, Berg and Brahms Violin Concertos, Janácek, Martinu, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Mahler Symphonies 5 - 10, Romeo and Juliet - Prokofiev, Der Rosenkavallier and 4 Last Songs- Strauss, Schumann lieder, Peter Grimes - Britten, Parsifal and Götterdämmerung - Wagner, Mozart operas, clarinet works and piano concerto No. 21, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Sainte-Colombe, Messiaen and that's just scratching aboot on the surface like a wee little dog.
Visual: Gaudí , Mucha, Modigliani, Giacometti, Rothko, Goldsworthy, Redon, Rodin, Rembrandt, Turner, Jesse Leroy Smith, Waterhouse.
Films: Tis impossible so here's just 1 for each letter of the alphabet that I can remember without looking anything up: African Queen, Brazil, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Days of Wine and Roses, Elvira Madigan, A Fist Full of Dollars, The Godfather, The Harder They Come, Ice Cold in Alex, Jeux Interdits, Koyaanisqatsi, Lawrence of Arabia, Mr Smith Goes to Washington (man, was M hard to choose), North by Northwest, O Brother Where Art Thou, Paris Texas, Q...erm, Ray, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tampopo, Underground, V...erm, Way Out West, X..erm, The Yellow Submarine, Zulu.
Words: Get a face full of these: Seven Arrows - Storm, The Time Traveller's Wife - Niffeneger, The Secret Life of Plants and The Secrets of the Soil - Tompkins and Bird, The Secret Teachings of Plants - Buhner, Any Dostoyevski, Nausea - Satre, 100 Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez, The Famished Road - Okri, Joseph Andrews - Fielding, Birdsong - Faulks, Captain Corelli's Mandolin - De Bernieres, Wild Swans - Chan, The Alchemist - Coelho, The Education of Little Tree - Carter, Blake, Yeats, Eliot, Shakespeare, Milligan, The Messianic Legacy - Baigent/Leigh/Lincoln, Food for Free - Mabey, Wild Flowers - Marjorie Blamey, The Bear Tribe Self-Reliance Handbook, The Madhur Jaffrey Cookbook, Calvin and Hobbs, The Naughty Scarecrow - Pixie Book for kids.
Best Drink: Coffee.
Telly: When The Levees Broke, Man on Wire, The Singing Detective, Blackadder, The Living Isles, all Attenborough progs, Das Boot, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Twin Peeks, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, Rab C Nesbitt, The Clangers in Black and White, Tales of the Last River Rat, Kung Fu, Far Flung Floyd, Top Cat, Angry Beavers, The Mighty Boosh. Don't have a telly now but, horror of horrors, got hooked into Lost at a friends house. Noooooo, Aargh! Keep away, flickery tube of psycho glue.
Poke in the eye: No thanks.
Heros: Gaudí , Kusturica, Gatlif
Why am I here?: Nosey.
Best Veg: Swede.

Phil's Details:

Type of Bottle: Ocean-going.
Type of Contents: Secret Messages from afar - slightly damp. ..
Type of Label: Indie