| Influences | John Barry, The Kinks,The Bee Gees, Joe Meek, Goffin/King, Mann/Weil, Carter/Lewis, Gamble/Huff, Giorgio Moroder, Blondie, The Fall, Pet Shop Boys, Broadcast, Denim, Billy Fury, Russ Titelman, Basil Kirchin, Ennio Morricone, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, The Human League, To Rococo Rot, The Mascots, Wimple Winch, Thor's Hammer, Ruth Copeland, Sweet, Slade, Chinnichap, Roger Nichols, Paul Williams, The Association, World Of Twist, Earl Brutus, Modern Eon, Phil Ochs, Loudon Wainwright III, John Fahey, The Miracles, Holland Dozier Holland, Larry Banks, Curtis Mayfield, Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Polnareff, Dion, Del Shannon, Roy Orbison, Lou Christie, Paul & Barry Ryan, Scott Walker, Laura Nyro, Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Todd Rundgren, Burt Bacharach, Sandy Denny, Anne Briggs, Ellie Greenwich, Paris Sisters, Macca, The Monkees, Elvis, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys.
Richard Brautigan, William Saroyan, Kenneth Patchen, Richard Yates, Shena Mackay, Nik Cohn, Anthony Lane, Daniel Farson, Geoffrey Fletcher, Patrick Hamilton, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Max Beerbohm, Anita Loos, PG Wodehouse, Beau Brummell, Beau Nash, Berthold Lubetkin, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, Robert Desnos, Guy Debord, Francis Picabia, Jess, Kurt Schwitters, Wyndham Lewis, Jeremy Deller, Julian Opie, Mark Perry, Jon Savage, Paris '68, SLA, Archigram, Free Cinema, Private Eye, The New Yorker, When Saturday Comes, freakytrigger.com, John Steed, Emma Peel, Francois Truffaut, Billy Wilder, David Lynch, David Mamet, Veronica Lake, Diana Dors, Mae West, Sophia Loren, Harpo Marx, Stan Laurel, Schultz, Larry David, Chris Morris, John McEnroe, Miloslav Mecir, Irina Slutskaya, Roy Race, Thierry Henry, Paul Walsh, love on the terraces, bonhomie in public houses, the look and the sound of a seven inch single, maybe on Decca. |