Patrick Down a.k.a El Haddock
REM, Belle And Sebastian, DJ Shadow, Throwing Muses, Pixies, Husker Du, Jeff Buckley Death In Vegas, Massive Attack....loads of other stuff.
Scoundrel Days' by A-Ha, first single was, somewhat inevitably for someone my age 'Do They Know It's Christmas', which for ten years was the only vinyl 45 I owned.
A truly awful local poodle metal band called Steel City in 93...but that aside, Spearhead, June 95.
'Murmur' by REM....nothing ever stayed on my stereo for quite so long... and I've been trying unsuccessfully to rip-off that sound for as long as I've been writing songs .
That should be 'How many drinks get you dancing ?'
The Cross Of Changes by Enigma...not only embarassing, but execrable toss too.
Skunk Anansie, a friend dragged me to see them about four years ago and as some hack put it 'Would anyone give a toss about this awful band if their singer weren't a black lesbian ?'
Yes
Jagger/Richards
Withnail & I
The Crow Road, by Iain Banks.
Dunno, I'm not an 'art' artist kind of person really.
Right now I'd quite like to go an and do 'Goddess on a Hiway'
Cimarron for a girl (guess who's been reading Espedair St) something other than'Ben Down' for a boy.
Megatron. Technically a supervillain.....
Chris Morris (those are the headlines....happy now ?)
Macclesfield Town. For my sins.
Sarah Cracknell. That bird out of Snowpony. The band's keyboard player ;-) .
A strange place, on the available evidence.