Zappa, Beefheart, Radiohead, Bonzo Dog Band, Tom Waits, Dresden Dolls, Leonard Bernstein, Rufus Wainwright, Puccini, The Ramones, Scott Walker, John Otway, Chas and Dave
He believes that poets are just songwriters who can't come up with a tune and serious songs are written by people who can't think of anything funny to say.
They live where the country meets the town and the exotic rubs shoulders with the ordinary. They are proud to live in the jewel in the crown of the Chilterns.
They are not being ironic.
To paraphrase the bard: like a recently dissinfected shithouse they are clean round the bend.
