And if you come back once more, you'll find an army of me...
Influences
My previous bands: Children's Hour, This Kind Of Punishment, Headless Chickens, Team Rocket...
Other bands/artists I like are: Lykke Li, Die!Die!Die!, Kings Of Leon, The Lemon Pipers, Able Tasmans, Yello, Renegade Soundwave, Tortoise, Daniel Johnston, Harry Nilsson, Little Jimmy Scott, Giant Drag, The Klaxons, Psychic TV, Apples In Stereo, King Biscuit Time, Deerhoof, Pop Will Eat Itself, Jimi Hendrix, The Stranglers, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Verve, Popol Vuh, Pere Ubu, La Gusana Ciega, The Associates, The Pretenders, Iggy Pop, Public Enemy, La Laque, Siouxsie & The Banshees, early Simple Minds (only the first 3 or 4 albums), Silver Apples, Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Portishead, The Residents, R.E.M., Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra, Small Faces, Slint, The Fast Crew, Lou Reed, Red Sun Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Ramones, Tom Waits, Suzanne Vega, Suicide, Curve, Tuxedo Moon, That Petrol Emotion, Nick Drake, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Toy Love, Tool, Split Enz, Soundgarden, The Sonics, Sam Phillips, Young Gods, Neil Young, Ultravox (only the original John Foxx line-up), T.V. On The Radio, Stevie Wonder, Wire, Young Marble Giants, Sonic Youth, Sneaker Pimps, Snakefinger, Smashing Pumpkins, This Heat, 10cc, Swell Maps, The Stooges, The Clash, MC 900ft Jesus, Jeremy Enigk, The Birthday Party, Suzi Quattro, Gary Glitter, Faith No More, Butthole Surfers, The Boredoms, The Feelies, Meat Puppets, Deftones, Danielle Dax, Fetus Productions, Garbage, Peter Gabriel, Can, The Fall, Jose Gonzalez, Gang Of Four, Electric Prunes, Dexy's Midnight Runners, XTC, Bailter Space, Einsturzende Neubauten, Faust, McClusky, Mew, Dandy Warhols, Folk Implosion, Limp Bizkit, Mestar, Tok Tok, Mercury Rev, Hum, The Pixies, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, The Who, Television, The Smiths, The Gordons, The Clean, The Great Unwashed, Erik Satie, The Cult, Princess Tinymeat, Ash, Chris Cornell, Stone Temple Pilots, George Harrison, Mazzy Star, Elastica, Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66, Blur, Oasis, Talking Heads, Able Tasmans, The Chills, Simon & Garfunkel, The Kinks, The Only Ones, Kyuss, The Monkees, Op Shop, Nine Inch Nails, Duchess, Nico, Nirvana, Colin Newman, Dome, Chrome, Neu!, Massive Attack, Magazine, Lydia Lunch, Ministry, The Revolting Cocks, Love, Barry Adamson, Angelo Badalamenti, The Like, Led Zeppelin, Mark Lanegan, Nebula, Bob Mould, Motorhead, The Modern Lovers, Minus The Bear, Mew, The Knife, The Kills, Killing Joke, Joy Division, New Order, Shihad, Joni Mitchell, Jane's Addiction, Hunters & Collectors, The Jam, Hoodoo Gurus, Beth Hirsch, Gil Scott Heron, LL Cool J, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Johnny Cash, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5, Janis Joplin, Kylie Minogue, The Police, Patti Smith Group, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Aphex Twin, Laurie Anderson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cream, P.J. Harvey, The Beat, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Coil, Bruce Springsteen, Kelli Ali, Anita Baker, Chet Baker, Grandaddy, Grizzly Bear, Beastie Boys, Black Rebel Motocycle Club, The Carrie Nations, Beta Band, Bread, Glen Campbell, Harry Nilsson, Gary Numan, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Royksopp, Zero 7, Amos Lee, Low, Beck, Air, Gabriel Yared, Snapper, Victor Dimisich Band, The Cars, Bill Direen, Devo, Sisters Of Mercy, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Names, David Bowie, Clock DVA, Sheryl Crow, Seal, Roxy Music, Psychedelic Furs, T-Rex, Blondie, Bill Withers, Al Green, John Cale, Queens Of The Stone Age, Lucid 3, Buzzcocks, Comsat Angels, Icehouse, Wall Of Voodoo, Chris Isaak, Chris Whitley, Velvet Underground, Miss Kittin, Bad Brains, The Ruts, Grant Lee Buffalo, Sonic Youth, Captain Beefheart, Cornelius, Miles Davis, Coldplay, The Beatles, Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, Prince, Echo & The Bunnymen, Gemma Hayes, The Cure, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Steely Dan, Strawpeople, The Doors, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Alice In Chains, Big Black, Ennio Morricone, The Skeptics, The Fanatics, Broken Social Scene, Doves, etc, etc, etc...
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My name's Chris Matthews. I used to be singer/guitarist in Children's Hour and Headless Chickens (who're both on my top friends page so if you want to know anything about them or listen to some songs or watch some videos or say Hi then you know where to go), & I was also a multi-instrumentalist/singer in This Kind Of Punishment and drummer with Jay Clarkson's Expendables, & I had a post-Chickens band in 2000 called Team Rocket for about a year. At the moment I'm Robot Monkey Orchestra and I've got the songs from my new album 'The Map Of Love' up here, so have a listen: You can buy it from iTunes
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Film Directors: Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Terry Gilliam, Francois Truffaut, Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Coen brothers, Billy Wilder, Martin Scorcese, Stephen Frears, John Huston, John Waters, Mike Leigh, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, John Schlesinger, Mike Nichols, Francis Ford Coppola, Alan Parker, Patrice Leconte, Robert Zemeckis, Roger Corman, David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar, Alfred Hitchcock, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton, Elia Kazan, Milos Forman, Peter Jackson, Philip Kauffman, Russ Meyer, Aki Kaurismaki, Emir Kusturica, Jean Renoir, Louis Malle, Terence Malick, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Hal Ashby, Michael Powell, Jim Jarmusch, Lasse Hallstrom, Volker Schlondorff, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Tom DiCillo, Andrei Tarkovsky, Juzo Itami, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Terry Jones, George Roy Hill, James Ivory, Neil Jordan, Michael Lehmann, Doug Liman, Frank Oz, Rob Reiner, John Sayles, Barry Sonnenfeld, Paul Verhoeven, Wim Wenders, Alex Van Warmerdam, Nick Broomfield, Michael Moore, Sam Mendes, Kon Ichikawa, Julian Schnabel, Spike Jonze, Luis Bunuel, Howard Hawks, Mel Brooks, James Whale, Les Blank, William Wyler, Elem Klimov, Sogo Ishii, Sam Raimi, Terry Zwigov, Andrzej Wadja, Carl Reiner, Sydney Lumet, Gus Van Sant, Farrelly brothers, Lars Von Trier, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Anthony Minghella, Bob Rafelson, Gillian Armstrong, Claude Berri, James Foley, John Ford, Dean Parisot, Robert Rossen, Nicholas Ray, Jim Sheridan, Hector Babenco, Bigas Luna, Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino, Jean-Claude Lauzon, Leos Carax, Vicente Arande, Otto Preminger, Julio Medem, Brad McGann, Bertrand Tavernier, Wes Anderson, Tom Tykwer, Matt Stone/Trey Parker, David O. Russell, Hayao Miyazaki, Victor Erice, Andrej Kieslowczki, John Lasseter, Harry Sinclair, Steve Buscemi, Danny Boyle, Alejandro Innaritu, Susanne Bier, Guillermo Del Toro, Lynne Ramsay, Satoshi Kon ***** Best N.Z. films: The God Boy, Sleeping Dogs, Bad Blood, Smash Palace, Ngati, Illustrious Energy, The Grasscutter, An Angel At My Table, Meet The Feebles, End Of The Golden Weather, Once Were Warriors, Heavenly Creatures, Topless Women Talk About Their Lives, Via Satellite, Memory And Desire, Savage Honeymoon, Lord Of The Rings trilogy, In My Father's Den, Out Of The Blue.
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Writers: Gunter Grass, Mikhail Bulgakov, John Steinbeck, Maurice Sendak, Janet Frame, Truman Capote, Chuck Palahniuk, Jack Kerouac, Maurice Gee, John Irving, John Fowles, Nathaniel West, Michael Ondaatje, Edgar Allen Poe, Edward Gorey, Hubert Selby Jr., Irvine Welsh, Kathy Acker, J.R.R. Tolkein, Patrick Suskind, Richard Brautigan, Alice Hoffman, William Wharton, Joseph Heller, J.G. Ballard, William Burroughs, Dorothy Parker, Hunter S. Thompson, Leonard Cohen, Harry Crews, Iain Banks, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Albert Camus, Dylan Thomas, Mark Leyner, Margaret Atwood, J.D. Salinger, Charles Bukowski, Anne Sexton, Cormac McCarthy, Susannah Moore, Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter, Edward Lear, Reinaldo Arenas, Annie Proulx, William Blake, Ian Cross, Tove Jansen.
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Artists/Comix: Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Bill Hammond, Joel-Peter Witkin, Auguste Rodin, Peter Peryer, Frida Kahlo, Amedeo Modigliani, Adolph Woolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Fiona Pardington, Francisco De Goya, Georgia O'Keefe, Alfred Stieglitz, Jacob Epstein, Diane Arbus, Frances Bacon, Paul Klee, Robin Morrison, Edouard Manet, Pieter Breugel, William Blake, Tony Fomison, Chaim Soutine, Henri Rousseau, Aubrey Beardsley, Barry Cleavin, Odilon Redon, Egon Schiele, Marc Chagall, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres***** Philippe Druillet, Tove Jansen, Maurice Sendak, Edward Gorey, Michael Leunig, Georges Remi/Herge, Jean Giraud/Moebius, Joost Swartz, Robert Crumb, Los Bros Hernandez, Bill Griffith, Brian Kliban, Gary Panter, Drew Friedman, Chester Brown, George Herriman, Winsor McCay, Michael Morris, Jhonen Vasquez, Albert Uderzo, Mary Tourtel, Martin Emond, Joe Wylie, Karl Wills, and all the many other graphic wunderkind from 2000AD, Heavy Metal, Viz, Beano, Raw Comics, Illicit, etc.
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Television: The Singing Detective, Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Prime Suspect, The Sweeney, Mr Wroe's Virgins, Band Of Brothers, Weeds, The Wire, Dirt, Kingdom Hospital, Carnivale, Max TV, Late Show With Letterman, The Daily Show, Antiques Road Show, Mythbusters, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, Top Chef (and just about any other cooking show), The New Detectives, House, Ugly Betty, Viva Variety, The State, Lovespring International, 30 Rock, The Mighty Boosh, Flight Of The Conchords, The Osbournes, Rove, Fear Factor, Doc Martin, Green Wing, 2 And A Half Men, Seinfeld, Father Ted, Love Soup, Cheers, Friends, The Young Ones, all the Comic Strip Presents stuff, Bottom, Filthy Rich & Catflap, The Larry Sanders Show, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Greg The Bunny, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, The Drew Carey Show, MXC, Merrick & Rosso, Double The Fist, Trailer Park Boys, Reno 911, Eurotrash, M*A*S*H*, Back Of The Y, Not The Nine O'Clock News, Fast Forward, The Fast Show, Gimme Gimme Gimme, The Goodies, Malcolm In The Middle, Ali G In Da House, Talk Radio, Black Adder, Monty Python, Harry Enfield, Mortimer & Reeves, Shooting Stars, The Tick, Max Headroom, The Office, Extras, Little Britain, Kath & Kim, Havoc & Newsboy, Eating Media Lunch, The Unauthorised History Of NZ, Will & Grace, Ned & Stacey, Black Books, Freaks And Geeks, Get Smart, My Name Is Earl, Pippi Longstocking (original TV show), The PJs, Magic Rondabout, Gumby, The Clangers, Thunderbirds, Joe 90, Sesame St, The Muppet Show, Batman (original '60s show), Moonintrolls, Monkey, Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp, Drawn Together, Ren & Stimpy, The Family Guy, Rocko's Modern Life, Beavis & Butthead, The Simpsons, South Park, Jimmy Neutron:Boy Genius, SpongeBob Squarepants, Liquid TV, Looney Tunes, Roadrunner, King Of The Hill, Rancho Bugito, Roger Ramjet, Captain Pugwash, Atom Ant, Quickdraw McGraw, Wacky Racers, Space Ghost, Woody Woodpecker, Rupert The Bear, Clutch Cargo, Duckman, Invader Zim, Fairly Odd Parents, The Oblongs, Batfink, Gigantor, Futurama, American Dad, Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, Felix The Cat, Betty Boop, Gary The Rat, Huckleberry Hound, Mr Magoo, Wallace & Gromet, old Disney cartoons, etc.
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Some Cool Dead People: Louise Brooks, William Blake, David D'ath, Salvador Dali, Nathanael West, Richard Brautigan, Wilhelm Reich, Divine, Albert Fish, Andy Warhol, Ian Curtis, Martin Emond, Francoise Dorleac, Edgar Allen Poe, Adrienne Shelley, Klaus Kinski, Robert Altman, Mikhail Bulgakov, Charles Bukowski, Erik Satie, Jeff Buckley, Chris Whitley, Dylan Thomas, Billy Wilder, Diane Arbus, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Johnny Pierce, Chet Baker, Janet Frame, Dorothy Parker, William Burroughs, Joe Strummer, Antonio Gaudi, Kathy Acker, Edward Lear, Snakefinger, John Steinbeck, Hunter S. Thompson, Syd Barrett, The Ramones, etc.
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Any news on the dates for the rest of the country yet? I'm tragically otherwise engaged for the Auckland shows, and can't afford to fly to Sydney ... this is turning into 2005 all over again!
