Stu Rowe and a lot of other people:Natasha Griffiths, Andy Partridge,Julianne Bastock,Jen Olive,Cinzano Taylor,Matt Kilford, Sam Bates,Ali Maundrell,Rebecca Harrison, Gillian Stokes, Gemma Whitmarsh, Pete Rowe, Polly Strange,Mikey Rowe, Jay Ganberg, Natasha Whitmarsh,Charlie Rowe,Carrie Rossiter, Merv Carswell, Billy Jones,Barry Ganberg, Nick Warr, Bozley, Pete Cousins, Para,Brendan Hamley, Barry Andrews,
Influences
Cannonball Adderley, The Advocates, Aerosmith, Afro,Eboniq,Anaphase,Carleen Anderson,Adam and the Ants,Amorphous Androgynous,The Aphex Twin,Louis Armstrong,Barry Andrews,Dave Angel,Burt Bacharach,Nick Baker,Baluji,Lord Bamford,Band 6,Iain Banks,Basement Jaxx,Count Basie,The Beastie Boys,Beatbullyz,The Beatles,Beck,Beethoven,Big Bandit,Blondie,David Bowie,Bob Bowles,James Brown,The Carpenters,Chalk Circle,Ray Charles,The Clash,Gaz Cobain,The Commodores,Norman Cook,Alice Cooper,Sheryl Crow,Dacoit Studios,Leonardo da Vinci,Salvadore Dali,The Damned,Miles Davis,Debussy,Delta 9,Kev Dixon,The Dirty Feel,DJ Shadow,Double Six,Brian Dougans,The Edge,Duke Ellington,Brian Eno
The Escapees,Esquimaw,Bill Evans,Gil Evans,Ella Fitzgerald,The Foo Fighters,Aretha Franklin,From Eden,The Future Sound of London,Barry Gamberg,JasonGamberg,Generation X,Al Green,Peter Green,Johnny Greenwood,Hanoi Rocks,Wild Willy Harris,Bob Heath
Bernard Hermann,Jimi Hendrix,Elvis Hitler,Billie Holiday,Charlie Hunter,Iggy and the Stooges,The Isley Brothers,The Jam,Etta James,Jellyfish,Paul Jobson,Robert Johnson,Jimmy Jones,Sam Kelly,Alicia Keys,Killing Joke,The Kinks,Lenny Kravitz,Led Zeppelin,The Lipstick Killers, Liquid Stone,Gary Lucas,Massive Attack,Curtis Mayfield,Medeski Martin and Wood,The Meters,The Meteors,Charlie Mingus,Mikey Rowe,Thelonius Monk,Mott The Hoople,Mud,Sandy Nelson,The New York Dolls,Nilsson,999,Nirvana,Noma,Oasis,Ogheno,William Orbit,Charlie Parker,Joe Pass,Portishead,Prince,Queens of the Stone Age,Radiohead,Rage Against The Machine,The Ramones,The Red Hot Chilli Peppers,Lou Reed,The Rezillos,Keith Richards,Max Richter,Mick Ronson,The Ruts,Gidd Sanchez,Toots Santini,Jill Scott,The Sex Pistols
Sham 69,The Shangri-las,Siouxsie and The Banshees,RoniSize,TheSkids,Slade,Slash,Sleepcycle,Sister Beck,Phil Spector,The Sore Willies,Sparks,The Spikes,Spittin Image,Harry Stephenson,Stevie Stevens,Stiff Little Fingers,Sly Stone,Stravinsky,The Style Council,The Sweet,Cinzano Taylor,Television,Johnny Thunders,Tower of Power,T Bone Travis,Curtis Tweed,United Future Organisation,The Vindaloo Brothers
The Who,Stevie Ray Vaughan,Muddy Waters,Tim Weller
Paul Weller,Kenny Werner,The Wild Bikinis,Sonny Boy Williamson,Brian Wilson,Cassandra Wilson,Stevie Wonder,XTC,Lester Young,Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction,
Sounds Like
"Everything blown apart and then put together in ways that you haven’t heard before" Dave Franklin
“The Backward Sound of Wiltshire”- The Rowe Brothers
“The Willy Wonka of Record Production”- Holly Partridge
“ Wiltshire’s answer to Andy Warhol’s Factory” -BBC Wiltshire
“The world’s best producer- The Alfonz
"Not lame"- Jen Olive
"Magnificent electro-swamp-blues-opera-hiphop-mashup"- Sam Bates
"The Wizard of Odds"- Andy Partridge
“Trying to categorize Lighterthief is like trying to nail smoke to a wall. Not only do they resist being put into a genre, even the very nature of the band is difficult to easily describe. A one-man studio project that occasionally manifests itself as a extended band? Fluid and largely improvised songs that are formed around rigid technology and samples? Techno-grunge meets the blues? Down-beat, trip-rock? Ask twenty people what it is that Stuart Rowe’s highly original creation is and you will get twenty answers. “ Dave Franklin
“Lighterthief doesn’t venture on to the stage that often, but when it does , it is an unpredictable and wonderful work of art. The line-up is slightly different every time, as are the songs and even the arrangements. The music is a strange brew of dark, trip-rock, swamp-blues and organic sounds, which combines consummate musicianship with an outstanding technical wizardry.” - Swindon Shuffle Review
“In 2007 the album Incubation was launched on an unsuspecting audience, an album that managed to blend music without regard for genre or rules. Metal guitars vied for space with melancholy harmonicas, whilst lonely trumpets muscled their way through. Loops and strange effects seemed to wander unchallenged across the songs, magical female vocals competed for space alongside gruff, rasping male voices, and intricate basslines and hypnotic percussion cemented the whole thing together.”
“If you look up eclectic in the dictionary, it has a picture of the Lighterthief’s album, Incubation, a diverse and heady mix of grunge blues guitar, soul pounding bass, electronic loops and beats and vocals that cover such a wide range that you could fit a small African country in between them.”
“Like all of the best music, its difficult to pin down exactly what it is that they do. Underpinned by an almost Portishead-esque series of dark loops and beats, layers of seemingly incompatible genres are added, thick swamp blues guitar licks, spiralling strains of dirty saxophone, random electronica, wailing freight train harmonica, driving bass lines, off beat jazz and more besides, creating an inconceivable yet beautiful creation. Look up juxtaposition in the dictionary and it has a video of this gig.”
"More akin to falling down the rabbit hole than anything else I've ever heard"- Jo Bradley
Hello Stu, thanks for the "friendship" and some really inspiring music!
Yeah, my favorites are Up On High, Lover, Desperation and The Forest (love that guitar).
Thanks for taking the time to check out my tracks too, I should have some of my better tracks up...well hopefully kind of soon.
My absolute best to you and all the other fantastic artists on Ape (Andy has put together an amazing label there, of course, that's hardly a surprise really). -Sheriden
Was a very good night, with added drama for no extra cost. I particularly enjoyed Lucy Blue and your collaboration with Matt. I missed Sam, but I suppose he had a good excuse. If you were going to put Lucy Blue and the Hoodoo on your next Lighterthief EP I'd be a happy bunny :)
Sigo muy preocupada con este tema, y ya han pasado meses...
No comprendo que pretende, ni cuales son sus verdaderas motivaciones, la verdad, cada dia entiendo menos todo esto, pero aunque no me llame y no sepa nada de él... siempre apoyaré a mi hijo incluso en una locura como esta.
Muchas gracias por estar ahí.
Arriba te dejo una img de mi hijo x si no sabes quien es.
"Thanks for the add" La Madre de Anonymous --------------------------------------- Who Am I - Experimento 2.0-
THE DACOITS play the Vic with THE DIRTY FEEL & HOTEL 75 on the 5th NOVEMBER To celebrate the arrival of their DEBUT ALBUM.
It’s been a long gestation period and a painful birth but we are now delighted to announce the arrival of our first album. Weighing in at 40 minutes it is an temperamental creation of flawed beauty, prone to violent, noisy outbursts yet irresistibly charming and loveable. Come along to wet the baby’s head, hear some excellent live music and grab a copy of the album.
Thanks so much for supporting the shelter gig sunday, was a wicked night! Next one Sunday Dec 2oth if you are for it- this time its going to be 4 until 11. We raised nearly £300. If you know anyone one else who maybe interested in playing please get in touch
Just got in from the Beehive, I know it was not strictly a "Lighterthief" gig, but you were all fantastic. To be able to stand right in front of you all whilst you were playing, was fabulous. Many thanks for a great evening.
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