| Influences | Simon: Robyn Hitchcock, Neil Palmer, Stewart Home, Billy Childish, Jarvis Cocker, Syd Barrett, Morrissey (not the Smiths guy, the other one), Momus.
Sonke: The Kinks, Klaus Kinski, Ton-Steine-Scherben, John Pfeiffer, Plastic People from Prague, Mum, Dad, Morricone, Ziggy Wrock
Harry: Possibly sonkes Mum. The original brief (devised by Simon and I at the time I proposed the band to him in 2000 and later with Nick and Simon) was to do psychedelic/garage/R+B/Texus-punk type stuff - hence the name. Syd Barrett was always included as well. Later 70s punk influences crept-in and more recently the 80/90s has made appeared in the choice of some of the covers - although probably put through some of the original briefs filters. The Charm of Innocence (Momus) for example being set to a piece of music I had already written and Babies (Pulp) having half its chords removed. How much the original brief is effecting things is hard to say because our influences on the whole, of course, are much, much broader.wa |
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