| Influences | Dunno if the following could all be classed as "influences" but we are big fans of(big,big breath...you could be here for some time...) -:The Clash,The Beatles,The Buzzcocks,The Undertones,That Petrol Emotion,Wilco, Richmond Fontaine, The Sadies, Calexico,Uncle Tupelo,Hank I,Hank III, Johnny Cash,Elvis Presley,Buddy Holly,Eddie Cochran, Robyn Hitchcock(and The Venus 3),Elvis Costello, Early Punk, American Traditional Country,The Wall Of Sound,handclaps,tambourines,reverb,harmonies,twang,Gene Clark,The Everlys,Roy Orbison,The Beach Boys,Big Star,The Ramones,The Sex Pistols,The Damned,The Rezillos,X-Ray Spex,Teenage Fan Club,Squeeze,Nick Lowe, The Long Ryders, Hacienda Brothers,Chris Gaffney, The Band, Neil Young, Richard Hawley, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros,Ali Farka Toure,Gretsch guitars,Fender Telecasters,Jason and The Scorchers,Doug Sahm,Merle Haggard,Rank And File,Andre Williams,Split Lip Rayfield,Gas tank bass,Howe Gelb,Giant Sand,Lucinda Williams,Victoria Williams,Alejandro Escovedo,Lambchop,banjo,singing drummers,Hackensaw Boys,Bob Frank and John Murry,Th' Legendary Shack Shakers,Supersuckers,Patsy Cline,The .357 String Band,Old '97s,The Byrds,The Kinks,The Small Faces,Cracker,The Smithereens,Crowded House,World Party,Curtis Mayfield,Dusty Springfield,Fountains of Wayne,The La's,The Icicle Works,Teardrop Explodes,The Blades,Beachwood Sparks,Dr Dog,Centro-matic,We The They, Willard Grant Conspiracy,Jim White, The Pernice Brothers,Blitzen Trapper, Elbow,The Hold Steady,Nick Cave,Hammond organ,Saville,E.L.O,Junior Murvin,Robert Nesta Marley,Saharan Desert Rebel Blues,Tinariwen,Toumast,Terakaft,Toumani Diabate,The Congos,Manu Chao,Jimmy Cliff,Dillinger,Chuck Prophet,Minus Five,Ken Stringfellow,Scott McCaughey,John Auer,The Posies,Young Fresh Fellows,David Lee,The Gourds,Bobby Bare Jnr,Wynntown Marshals,Komety,Endrick Brothers,Attic Lights,C.C.R,Southern Culture On The Skids,John Langford,Waylon Jennings,The Replacements,Nirvana,Devo,Velvet Underground,Hope Sandoval,Mercury Rev, Bruce Springsteen, Joe Jackson, Horace Andy,The Ronettes, Ron Sexsmith, Marvin Gaye, XTC,Dirty Three,Fugazi,The Sonics,John Spencer Blues Explosion,Wovenhand,Rainer Ptacek,The Black Heart Procession,Siouxsie and The Banshees, John Peel, Smokey Robinson, Al Green,Band Of Annuals,Horse Feathers,Or The Whale, serial killers!!, South Park, Scott H. Biram,Mike Ness,The Minutemen,Rev. Peytons Big Damn Band,Waco Brothers,Catfish Haven,Corb Lund Band,Graham Coxon,Lloyd Cole and The Commotions, Prefab Sprout,Harry Nilsson,The Pixies,Tift Merritt,The Jayhawks,Patty Hurst Shifter,Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Abba,The Carpenters,The Shangri-Las,The Bonnevilles,Dario Argento,old horror films,Hammer films, spaghetti western music,Sergio Leone,'60s and '70s childrens TV theme music,southern gothic,timpani,The 1990's,Thunderbirds,Alfred Hitchcock,Martin Scorsese,Mel Brooks,Humphrey Bogart,Catherine Deneuve,Nastasja Kinski,Claudia Cardinale, Ella Fitzgerald, Cole Porter,Hamell on Trial,Sid Griffin, Richard Pryor,Bill Hicks,George Carlin,Doug Stanhope,Cherry Poppin' Daddies, T-Rex,Sweet,Slade,Roy Wood, Gene Vincent,The Jam,Billy Bragg,Orange Juice,The Ruts,SLF,The Stranglers,Talking Heads,Blondie,The Pretenders,Martin Stephenson(and The Daintees),Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons,Gillian Welch,Martha Scanlan,Glen Campbell,The Delmore Brothers,The Stanley Brothers,The Louvin Brothers,Aretha Franklin,Otis Redding,Son Volt, David Attenborough,Howard Marks,Casablanca,Belle De Jour,Paris,Texas,Straight To Hell,The Future Is Unwritten,Blazing Saddles,Repo Man,Bad Boy Bubba,Little Otik,Tetsuo,Darkness In Tallinn,La Haine,Infernal Affairs,Man Bites Dog,Night Of The Hunter,Double Endemnity,Delicatessen,Blue Velvet,Once Upon A Time In The West,Django,Ravenous,Evil Dead,A Midnight Clear,Scarface,Goodfellas,Monty Python's Flying Circus,Fawlty Towers,The Today Show w/John Stewart,The Day Today,Brass Eye,Burt Bacharach,Hal David,Laura Cantrell,Alfred Hitchcock,The Bee Gees,David Bowie,Fleet Foxes,(early)REM,Scud Mountain Boys,James Brown,Stevie Wonder,The Supremes,Etta James,Sam Cooke,Mott The Hoople,Beethoven,Camille Saint-Saens and other classical geniuses,Spike Milligan,Noam Chomsky,Charles Darwin, John Pilger, Richard Dawkins, Roddy Frame,Aztec Camera,The Housemartins,Camera Obscura,The Go-Betweens,Steve Wynn,The Dream Syndicate,Green On Red,Loose Fur,Laurel and Hardy,The Marx Brothers, Good Vibrations Records(and all the bands who recorded on the Good Vibes label),John Cooper Clarke,The Radiators From Space,everything Motown and Stax, Thin Lizzy, Drive By Truckers,Stephen King, John Carpenter, funny fuckers,grumpy bastards,10cc,The Hollies,The Faces,The Only Ones,The Moondogs, The Specials,The Beat, Ian Dury,Daniel Johnson,Gene Wilder,Mel Brooks,Young Frankenstein,Marty Feldman,Jerry Lee Lewis,The Rubinoos,The Raspberries,Nuggets,Flamin' Groovies,Dexys,Willie Nelson,Lou Reed,Shane Macgowan,Pugwash,Steve Earle,Jeff Tweedy,Willie Vlautin novels,Jon Rauhouse,Jesse Malin,Silver Jews,Iron and Wine,John Martyn,Kelly Joe Phelps,Sparklehorse, Nina Simone, Los Lobos,ethnic music in all its forms,weeping steel, Sun Records,Stray Cats, Hillbilly Casino,rockabilly,hellbilly,psychobilly,death country,Link Wray,surf music,dub reggae,sweet soul music,Liverpool football club,Bill Shankley and Bob Paisley,the lovely cities of Amsterdam and Dublin,Townes Van Zandt,Golden Smog,Velvet Crush,Elliott Smith,Brendan Benson,The Pixies,The Jesus and Mary Chain,The Smiths,David Lynch,Sparks,Grandaddy,The New Pornographers,Joy Division,Human League,Velvet Underground,The Seeds,Echo and The Bunnymen,Kraftwerk,Roxy Music,the A-Z of herbs,Roger's Profanisaurus,sunshine,fishing,good times,good manners,good choons,good choruses,outsiders,agitators and non-conformists,our wives,families and friends,Dozy D. Dopoulos(our handsome dog),lamb vindaloo(Marty),creamy chicken pasta(Des),sausage'n'chips(Stevie)...and last but not least ..sweet creamy stout(Marty),Southern Comfort(Des)and gin and tonic(Stevie)...... . ...fuck it,people..we love y'all(within reason)....if we forgot you...sorry...we've listened to more music than could possibly be good for any human being..and to those of you out there who only listen to one genre of music,broaden your goddam horizons and your minds will follow...most days,we add someones name we forgot..gettin' old,ya see.......if you're still awake after reading down this long assed list,many thanks for visiting our page and supporting our music...hope to meet you out there soon(Thursday 30th of April in The Cobblestone,Dublin,in fact, for our live debut...)....respect !! |
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