The Velvet Underground, Luna/Galaxie 500, Saint Etienne, Badly Drawn Boy, JAMC, Bob Dylan, Belle and Sebastian, New Order, Pulp, Kate Bush, Wings, Nick Drake, Serge Gainsbourg, Hole, Kings of Convenience, Kathryn Williams, Pavement, Green on Red, Throwing Muses, Erik Satie, the Wicker Man soundtrack, the Go-Betweens, Air, Glenn Gould, Fairport Convention, Crosby Stills Nash and Young. non-musical influences: Roland Barthes, Marcel Proust, James Mason and Margaret Lockwood, Carry on Screaming, Charles Baudelaire, George Eliot, Christopher Marlowe, red wine, Nancy Mitford, Brideshead Revisited, Paul Verlaine, Eric Newby, Banana Yoshimoto, cakes, gin, swimming pools
Clare's Club were formed from the ashes of the Compleatists, and are solely based in my Berkshire front room. Using a selection of the very cheapest effects pedals and guitars, and rubbish laptops, they craft songs of low fidelity but high drama. From all over the world, people are clamouring to join Clare's Club. Clare's Club love red wine, robins, melodrama, Venice and irregular verbs.
exactly, its the way you USE it thats the important thing. :-)
nice melodic tunes you've got going on here..i've also got a page fully dedicated to my OWN music as well. when you've got a minute pop along to www.myspace.com/onedeadgroove