Sinking the rum, reading, cutting the rug, hats, cricket, colourful socks, foraging food, cuff links, cooking, cigars, 1950s pulp art, smoking my pipe, reading while smoking my pipe, English romantic painting & poetry, Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama.
Groovy musicians who like getting audiences dancing & would like to perform with Dudlow Joe here in Bath. Would especially like to hear from roots musicians: rockabilly cats, cajun accordionists, tango bands, flamenco guitarists, New Orleans fonk brass, etc.Food foragers.
Professor Longhair, Memphis Slim, Chuck Berry, Otis Redding, Fats Waller, James p. Johnson, Eddie Bo, Jimmy Yancey, Nellie Lutcher, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Ruben Gonzalez, Ibrahim Ferrer, Roberto Fonseca, Omar Sosa, Maurice el Medioni, Earl Hines, Gene Vincent, Chas & Dave, Fats Domino, Aretha Franklin, The Kinks, Jerry Lee Lewis, Otis Spann, Ry Cooder, Khaled, Madness, Little Brother Montgomery, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Jools Holland, Larry Williams, Little Richard, Ali Farka Toure, James Booker, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Paddy Milner, Ben Waters, Gene Vincent, Ray Charles, Dr John, Nat King Cole, Earl Hines, Lionel Hampton, Lee Dorsey, Cerys Matthews, Stephane Grapelli, The Mighty Peas, The Inzani Project, Bob Brozman, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Nina Simone, Muddy Waters, Big Maceo, The Faces, The Who
Laurel & Hardy; Nuts In May; Lagaan; Life is Sweet; Brassed Off; Ladykillers; Dr Strangelove; Wind In The Willows (Cosgrove & Hall); Lawrence Of Arabia; The English Patient; The Life Of Brian; The Sting; Battle of Algiers; Alfie; The Pianist; Ghost World; The Man in The White Suit; I'm Alright Jack
The Morecambe & Wise Show, Not Only But Also, Hancock's Half Hour, Porridge, Black Books, The Goodies, Early Doors, Our Friends From The North, Up Pompeii, Later...with Jools Holland, Have I Got News For You, Bagpuss, The Kumars at No.42, Steptoe & Son, Dad's Army .... and radio, radio, radio esp I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Thomas Hardy, Hardy's Poems, Mark Twain, Orhan Pamuk, Toni Morrison, John Steinbeck, Neville Cardus, Walter Pater, Lord Byron, 'Don Juan', William Wordsworth, 'Lyrical Ballads', Emily Dickinson, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Malory, William Barnes, John Betjeman; 'The Penelopiead' by Margaret Atwood; 'Journey to The River Sea' by Eva Ibbotson; Homer's Odyssey trans Robert Fagles
All the groovers & scribblers above - Eric Morecambe, Edward Said, Abdul Qadir, Viv Richards, Tich Freeman, Maggi Hambling, Barbara Hepworth, John Peel, Jerry Dammers, John Arlott, Willie Rushton, Richard Mabey, Paul Robeson, Groucho Marx - and these people are jammy bastards: Jools Holland, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Mark Lamarr, Andy Kershaw, Nick Gold