| Influences | It would be ridiculous to try and list all my influences (I’m told I have one of the craziest iTunes libraries in existence), but for the sake of playing nice, here are a few highlights:
POP/ROCK - U2 (world’s best and last great band), Carpark North, Mute Math, Coldplay, Keane, all the other bands you’re supposed to mention... Leeland, Nik Kershaw, Sting, John Mayer, Sarah Mclachlan, Jeff Buckley, Bruce Hornsby, Beck, Jonatha Brooke, Evanescence, Wilshire, Peter Gabriel, The Beatles, Elton John, Chris Rice, Sixpence, lots of guilty pleasures from the 80’s...
ELECTRONIC - BT, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Sasha, DJ Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Dirty Vegas, William Orbit and the list goes on...
FILM/ORCHESTRAL - John Williams, Howard Shore, E.S. Posthumus, James Horner, Hans Zimmer, Conjure One, The Newman Family (Thomas, David, Randy), James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Bruce Broughton, John Debney, Ennio Morricone, Bill Whelan, Enya, Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart & the usual suspects...
MISC/OTHER - Big band, jazz, early-to-mid 20th century goodies, lots of 50’s-60’s-70’s stuff (alright, so much of the 20th century), Celtic music, ancient & ’world’ music, and of course a few Michael Bolton essentials (now I’m just seeing if you’re paying attention)... |
