| Influences | Whoever I listened to last....
Heroes, in roughly chronological order, Dick Dale, Shangri-Las, The Shadows, Kate Bush, The Ramones, Television, Blondie, The Instant Automatons, The Fall, Toyah, Nick Drake, early Pixies, Nick Cave, The Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth, The Go-Betweens, REM, Natalie Merchant, Grandaddy, Harold Budd, Labradford, Robin Guthrie, Alessandro Stefana and very recently the wonderful Neutral Milk Hotel.
Authors who get re-read on a regular basis: Arthur Machen, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Robert Aickman, Phyllis Paul, M.P. Shiel, Walter de la Mare.
Poets: Ernest Dowson, Philip Larkin, John Sewell, Glen Cavaliero.
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