| Member Since | 3/15/2006 | | Band Members | Cedric Monzali - Drums, voice, the spirit of Jacques Cousteau.
AnneMarie Bird - voice, flute, ability to read the minds of rocks.
Daniel Robertson - trombone, voice, travels space and time.
Vic 'Root de Toot' Potterton - Trumpet, voice, puppet hands.
Walt Shaw - frankensteinian percussion, elektrical devices, voices from ether.
Claire Stewart - voiln, voice, house doctor.
George Harris - harmonica, flugel horn, voice, tiger.
Chris of the Trees - guitar, voice, unnatural surgery, tenor sax.
Lorin Halsall - double-bass, theremin, strange machines, projections, voices in the air.
Jerry Hope - words, inspiration, all things.
AND IN FORMER TIMES...
Rob Barber - drums.
Alice Graham - tapdancing, sparkles.
Andrew Wilson - Spanish guitar, tenor sax, whizzy thing, bat.
Andy Jarvis - cornet, piano.
Jon Samsworth - guitar, horn, voices in the head, films, projections.
Arsey Rob - machine-spirit translator, alternative universe electrical interactivity.
| | Influences | Captain Beefheart, The Fall, Soft Machine, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Can, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Sun Ra, Do Make Say Think, King Crimson, Tom Waits, Angelo Badalamenti, Jefferson Airplane, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Luigi Russolo, Oliver Postgate, Bram Stoker, HG Wells, Michael Moorcock, Ivor Cutler, Jack Micheline, Pete Brown, Dada, Keith Roberts, Dylan Thomas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMUSyxmF8KE | | Sounds Like | “…like the house band of a Victorian asylum in a David Lynch movie. Visually and sonically stunning, the Dust Collectors stroll the line between genius and insanity.” Dusted.
“The Dust Collectors are a mix of The Cinematic Orchestra and Red Snapper, with a mad Victorian reciting his dark-assed poetry over the top. Just amazing. Kind of like Broadcast too in many ways.” Knom music | | Record Label | Octopus Inc. | | Type of Label | Major |
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