| Influences | Oh so hard to say, but give us a sweet sounding acoustic any day. Perennial musical favourites = Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, John Lennon, Bjork, Sandy Denny, Radio 3's Late Junction playlist, The Magic Numbers, Damien Rice, Nico, Big Star, Pentangle, Edith Piaf, Tim Buckley, Eddi Reader, Mark Eitzel, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, The Stranglers, The Sundays, Dylan, Red House Painters, Mark Kozelek, Fairport Convention & Fotheringay, Joanna Newsom, The Band, Chet Baker, Ray Charles, The Posies & Jon Auer, Beatles, Mazzy Star, bit of Windham Hill, Miles Davis, Arvo Part, Aimee Mann, MC5, Joni Mitchell, CSNY, Indigo Girls, Simon & Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Led Zeppelin, DCD, The Byrds, Nick Drake, Kate Bush, Seth Lakeman, Debussy, Berstein, Gershwin, Britton, Plath, Hughes, Betjeman, Angelou, Faulkner, Byron, Dickinson, Tennyson, Whitman, Bradbury, Rothko, Rackham, Dulac, Twombly, Joan of Arc, Pankhurst, Picasso, Van Gogh, Kiefer, Cromarty, Tyne, Dogger, every kitsch Hammer film ever made, Mondo Macabro, Clint Eastwood, he's the man, Terrence Fisher...genius, Wenders, Jeanut & Caro, technicolor, tea, cakes, rioja, and if you've read this far then lordy lordy, but the list goes on... |
