| Influences | Where to begin...
Divine Comedy, Depeche Mode, Suzanne Vega, Elvis Costello, Ivor Cutler, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Cole Porter, Billy Bragg, Boards Of Canada, Pram, Broadcast, Pulp, Morrissey, Madness, Lucia Pamela, Little Marcy, Frank Sidebottom, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band...
also John Shuttleworth, The Housemartins, The Smiths, Sparks, The Cure, Robyn Hitchcock, Squeeze, Lorraine Bowen, Half Man Half Biscuit, Pink Floyd, Belle and Sebastian, Syd Barrett, Plone, The Kingsbury Manx, Ben Folds Five, Joni Mitchell, w/trem, The Kinks, Matt Johnson, Loudon Wainwright III, Tiny Tim, Michelle Shocked, Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia, Blur, The Magnetic Fields, The Beautiful South, Robert Wyatt...
also Stereolab, Now, Volcano The Bear, Multi-Panel, Badly Drawn Boy, Soft Cell, Piney Gir, Stereo Total, The Fall, Van Der Graaf Generator, Monade, Ed Harcourt, Peter Hammill, Kristin Hersh, The The, Kraftwerk, Victoria Williams, Endgame, Gary Numan, Air, Delia Derbyshire, Schulte/Eriksson, David Bowie, Martin L. Gore, Simon & Garfunkel, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Magnétophone, Caravan, Goblin, The KLF, Marc Almond, Tori Amos, The Beatles, Jake Thackray, KTB, Bob Dylan, Kevin Blechdom...
not forgetting Dennis Potter, David Lynch, World In Action, Fry & Laurie, Stella Street, Monty Python, Mark Thomas, Kenneth Williams, The Divine David, Kenny Everett, Tony Benn, Germaine Greer, Valarie Solanas, Jan Svankmajer, PIFs, Sir Clive Sinclair...
oh and Erasure, Mme. St Onge, Laika, Leonard Cohen, Max Tundra, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Joe Meek, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Ayres, Wesley Willis, Julian Cope, Thea Gilmore, Bleak House, Kling Klang, White Town, King of Woolworths, Kings of Convenience, The Flaming Lips, Future Bible Heroes, Jandek, Dave Gahan, The Durutti Column, The High Llamas, Ladytron, Malcolm McLaren, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Frank Zappa, Quasi, Soft Machine, Echobelly, Carole King, Babybird, King Crimson, M, Electrelane, The Clientele, Amon Düül, The Sisters of Mercy, The Lilac Time, Chicks On Speed, Ken Nordine, Lee Ranaldo, Manfred Mann, Kathryn Williams, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Throwing Muses, Sleeper, Tape-Beatles, John Oswald, Chris Rea, Iannis Xenakis, Daniel Johnston, Martin Denny, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Martin Simpson, Earwig, Nick Cave, People Like Us, Franz Ferdinand, The Beta Band, Sonic Youth, The Teardrop Explodes, Kirsty MacColl, Napoleon XIV, Lydia Lunch, Client, Kevin Shields, Bruce Haack, Flying Saucer Attack, Kate Bush, Jimmy Somerville, Adam and The Ants, Peaches, Orbital, Gary Le Strange, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Yoko Ono, Fallen Music
(NB: some of these influences are rather more subliminal than others) |
