| General | MUSIC, Vintage Motorcycles, Analogue Synthesizer Abuse, Guitar, Mellotrons and Other Idiosyncratic Instruments, Rebuilding Vintage Electric Organs and then Beating The Living Shit Out Of Them, Art and Sculpture, the Theremin, Staring at the Moon, Bollywood Effervescence, kitsch, Steam Locomotives, Early Flying Machines, Tadpoles, Friends, Beauty, Architecture, Gardening, Toad in the Hole, Red Wine, Recycled Electronics, Languages, Big Sloppy Kisses And All That Sort Of Thing, Valve Amplifiers, Sheds, The Sea, Peak Period Princess Margaret, Welding, Neon... Dogs, Frogs, Hats, Cats, Cabbages, Cake, Deep Sea Fish with Curious Powers of Bioluminescence, The Bedford CA mkII, The Daimler Dart, big fat bifters. Assisting Stranded Insects, Tape Echoes, Pedal Harmoniums, Selmer, WEM, Bird, EHX, Colorsound and VOX gear, Chips 'n' Gravy, The Female Form, True Socialism, A Nice Pint, A Nice Pie. | | Music | All manner of stuff from Stravinsky to Slayer via Noel Coward and Bert Jansch.. Faves include The Beatles, The Flaming Lips, Roxy Music, Jimi Hendrix, Super Furry Animals, 'classic' YES, Van der Graaf Generator, 70s Genesis (the Steve Hackett years mainly, not really keen on the later stuff), Ludwig Van B.., The Animals, Bigelf, Gentle Giant, Bits of Circulus, Eno, Hawkwind, Os Mutantes, Broadcast, Clara Rockmore, Black Sabbath, The Specials, Elvis, The Artwoods, Venetian Snares, Kraftwerk, Public Enemy, Led Zeppelin, Grudgemonkey, Motorhead, Comus, Scott Walker, Ultrasound, The Monks, Khan, Acid Mothers Temple, Ronald Binge, TONTO's Expanding Head Band, Roy Harper, Thelonious Sphere Monk, The Nice, New York Dolls, Les Baxter, Magma, Clara Rockmore, The Rattles, James Carr, Grandaddy, GONG, Julian Cope, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock, Benny Goodman, Bela Bartok, Anekdoten, Elza Soares, Jimmy Smith, Parliament/Funkadelic, Moody Blues, The C.A. Quintet, ELO, Ruth Underwood period Zappa, Brand X, The Mobsters, Claude-Achille Debussy, Air, Wendy Carlos, The Band, John Shuttleworth, Nick Drake, Aurora Plastic Monster, Ozric Tentacles, X-Ray Spex, The Damned, DUFUS, The Who, The Kinks, Augustine, Thomas Tallis, Bjork, Prince on form, Eric Satie, LSD And The Search For God, King Crimson, Mrs Mills, Billy Childish, Bela Bartok, Radiophonic Workshop, Faust, The Temptations, Stone Foundation, Sly Stone, The Sisters Of Transistors, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Lee Hazlewood, Peggy Lee, MC5, BeGoodTanyas, The Shadows, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Neu!, The Cramps, J.S. Bach, Wes Montgomery, Klaus Nomi, Captain Beefheart, Otis Redding, Crosby Stills and Nash, Olivier Messiaen, The Smiths, early Queen, The Stranglers, Elbow, Paul Weller, Charlie Christian, Adam and the Ants, Roland Kirk, Mills and Boon, Jethro Tull, Johnny Cash, Stereolab, The Most Pompous Bits of ELP., ooh, Loads of stuff. Whatever does it for me. Mellotrons optional. Honest! | | Movies | Brief Encounter, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Star Wars, Logan's Run, Silent Running, The Great Escape, Reach For The Sky, Anything involving Ray Harryhausen, Sin City, Jan Svankmajer stuff, A Matter of Life and Death, Russ Meyer, all sorts of things. I weep involuntarily at 1940s English war films.. Given the chance I probably WOULD live in a set from a 70s retro-futurist utopia.. | | Television | Has a power that frankly terrifies me- as I get sucked in FAR too easily.. Excepting Fred Dibnah's 'Wole' oeuvre and David Attenborough, of course, and the Fast Show. Sorry, I'm being a snob.. I'm just as likely to mong out on the sofa now and again as YOU are.. Current faves include The Mighty Boosh, the World At War and that really cosy programme about narrowboats.. as opposed to the other really cosy programme about narrowboats with the Really Scary Bloke in it.. | | Books | Loads of stuff. Highbrow, Lowbrow, Tiddley-pom...... Favourites include Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Anthony Burgess, Isaac Asimov, 'Wild Bill' Shakespeare, Douglas Coupland, Michael Moorcock, R.A.Penfold, Colin Wilson, Robert Graves, Paramahansa Yogananda, Julian Cope, Philip Larkin, Enid Blyton, Robert Silverberg, Terence Mckenna, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Robert Heinlein, Robert Anton Wilson... Moog/ARP/SCI Technical Service Manuals, 60's Triumph Parts Catalogues, 'leccy techie trainspottery and biographies. | | Heroes | ..or rather, INSPIRATIONS.. Hero worship is a most dangerous thing. There are many out there whose works and attitudes have profoundly swayed and helped to shape me one way or t'other and I love them all deeply.
Hank Marvin, Ivor Cutler, Jimi Hendrix, Hugh Banton, Jimmy Smith, Vivian Stanshall, Steve Howe. Robert Fripp, Bob Moog, Delia Derbyshire, Julian Cope, Clara Rockmore, Lemmy, C-3PO, Tony Banks, Tony Benn, Malcolm Cecil, John Paul Jones, Thelonious Monk, Nina Simone, Laurens Hammond, Val Page, Noel Coward, Keith Emerson, Ma and Pa, Pete Townshend, I.K.Brunel, Rick Wakeman, John Peel, Douglas Bader, Messrs. Smith and Bradley, Vermeer, Chris Squire, Brian Eno, Fred Dibnah, Les Paul, Ernst Zacharias, Garth Hudson, Django Reinhardt, 'Rocket' Ron Lebar, Martin Kelly, Bootsy Collins, Lev Sergeievitch Termen, Uncle Stan, Enda O'Donnell, Wes Montgomery, Steve Hillage, My Brave Forebears wot 'did their bit' 1939-1945... |
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