| Influences | Rhinestone Cowboy on the way down to Bude on radio 2, 1977 Elvis in concert on the telly, Evil Knievel stunt cycle; Carry On Don’t Lose Your Head on HTV Sunday Matinee; 1980 Blondie on TOTP, Regatta de Blanc; Dog Eat Dog on TOTP, Absolute Madness, Chart Hits 81 part 2 - free when you buy Chart Hits 81 part 1, Never Mind The Bollocks West Buckland Youth Club, This Charming Man Youth Afloat Festival Disco Poole, Stop Making Sense, Live Aid! Bowie, Queen and the Quo!, The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall, Power Corruption and Lies, A Momentary Lapse of Reason,Wembley Stadium, A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window, Doolittle; Roy Harper somewhere in Gloucester, PJ Harvey Tangiers Youth Centre Taunton, The Alarm Colston Hall, Manic Street Preachers Priory Social Club Taunton, Bandwagonesque, Sonic Youth/Pavement Rainbow Bristol; Glastonbury The Family Cat, Cud, Tom Jones, Reading Boo! Radleys, New Order, Chumbawamba and Eddie Izzard, Of Walking Abortion;The Hudsucker Proxy; Underworld Cowgirl; To Be A Somebody, Pulp at Glastonbury, Gattaca, Dogme, Come On Die Young; Jude Law’s hair in The Talented Mr Ripley, Leftism; Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Werner Herzog, Kim Fowley Dirty Water Club, John Martyn Colson Hall, John Pope-Hennessy’s Donatello:Scupltor; Bellini and the East, Smiley’s People, John Lahr’s Prick Up Your Ears, James Miller’s Passion of Michel Foucault
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