Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, Conceptualism, Minimalism, Fluxus, Situationist International, Theatre of the Absurd, Captain Beefheart, Bruce Nauman, David Lynch, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Marx Brothers, Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Luis Bunuel, John Cage, Ween, Primus, Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Peter Cook, Spike Milligan, Franz Kafka, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Kippenberger, Maurizio Cattelan, Richard Prince, Francis Bacon, Picasso, Miro, Rothko...
Music
Captain Beefheart, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Ween, Primus, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Frank Zappa, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Blind Willie Johnson, Sly and The Family Stone, James Brown, Jane's Addiction, RHCP, FNM, Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Living Colour, Fishbone, The Pixies, Henry Rollins Band, Sepultura, Nailbomb, Soundgarden, Audioslave, LaMonte Young, Philip Glass, Christian Marclay, Tom Waits...
Movies
Luis Bunuel movies, David Lynch movies, Takeshi Kitano movies, Marx Brothers movies, Bruce Lee movies, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Napoleon Dynamite, Adam and Paul...
Television
Curb Your Enthusiasm,
The Office,
Father Ted,
My Name is Earl
Books
Harold Pinter, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Miguel de Cervantes, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Heller, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins...
About me: I am an artist and a musician. I have a Masters in Fine Art. I make performance art/live art/conceptual art/video art...I am a bass player and a singer/songwriter. I work as an Art Facilitator. I started out as a draughtsman and a painter and then I moved on to sculpture, but now I mostly work in the field of Performance Art. The Marx Brothers, the Theatre of the Absurd, Bruce Nauman and Captain Beefheart are my main influences. My own bands have included WhoManWhat and BOB. (BOB, Honeysac and Blue Sue are the three best bands you never heard of).
Who I'd like to meet: Artists, musicians and street philosophers.
Sorry I haven't been in touch, been busy! Don't know yet how will put things on, but will probably been in pub space and live performance with other things like bands etc.,. Would be a great mix!
How you doing? Am thinking of putting on an series of audio/visual events in Edinburgh during the festival and was wondering if you would be interested in taking part?
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
Thank you! That image is of a drawing I did on the wall of Limousine Bull in the exhibition I had in February Last year. Was very pleased with the whole thing, to the extent that I thought it was the best thing I've done so far. It was nine drawings and three sound pieces that took over the space in a very subtle way. Hope you are good!
I am working out and putting down drum tracks for Pro's and I Can't Take It. Refresh yourself with these so I can get some Bass on them. I have a new one to jam with as well and looking some Bass on. Should have 'em ready in a few weeks. What you been up to anyway.
Checked out the Residentials vid and the animation keep up the good work. They say life imitates art imitates life imitates art. One of the puppets reminds me of you. The somouldering intensity on its wee face.
Headin' down to Dublin today to see Henry Rollins Spoken word with Barry. He comin' to the Empire at end of Mar. Tickets 20 Quid. If it any good do you want to go to Empire. I'll get your ticket since you got the David Lynch one for me. Let me know
Get back to work you!!!! Missed that program last wk. I think I did was Gary Oldman in it. If so I seen him flip a coin saying heads for about 5mins while Tim Roth looked on. Was it good
I'll throw a rough mix up on the BOB page of Kick Out The Jams with your Bass in the next few days. It sounds 100 times better even in the rough state with the live Bass. Get dem fingers roughed up son, there a ton of work to be done!! I still got the skin from your blister on my bookshelf if you want it or was that another "Performance Art" piece that I was privillaged to witness
Haha. Well it took about 4hrs to get that done an there is only 4 secs of animation in it so should complete by time you hit the big 40 haha. Prob take a few months
Ok the full version!!!! It's a long one. Pick something else as well and we will record 4 covers for an E.P. We'll get the drums programmed first then get live drums done.
I'm the tallest even with the bow legs!!! I'm wearing flat trainers n you were wearing them boots with the 3 inch heels. I have the drums done for Zappa's Bobby Brown Goes Down need your Bass and W.C Fields vocals for that one
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