The Sophia Collective: Robin Proper-Sheppard, Jeffrey 'The Bear' Townsin, Jonathan 'Leather' Digby, Adam Franklin, Will Foster, Matthew Round, Calina de la Mare, Lawrence O' Keefe, Malcolm Campbell, Sarah Willson, Robert Spriggs, Ruth Gottlieb, Chris Koh, Sophie Sirota, Lucy Wilkins, Andrew Nice, Graham Miles, James Elkington, Dan Mulligan, Tim Cedar, Frank Ramsey, Andrew Blick, Stuart Wright, Nick Bergin, Simon Russell, Steve Hackett, Alzy, Matthew Ward, Alison Dods, Rick Koster, Helen Rathbone, Emma Black, Jenny Hutchinson, John Hutchinson, Alice Pullen, Karen Fotherby, Malcolm Middleton, Stephen Jones, Melanie De Basio, Philip Lethen, Fuego and still there's more...
Influences
Listening:
The National - Boxer
Neil Young - On The Beach
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Damien Jurado - And Now That I'm In Your Shadow
Sea Wolf - Leaves In The River
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Josh Rouse - Country Mouse, City House
Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests
Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
Reading:
Blood Mountain - Cormac McCarthy
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story - Richard Ford
A Little History of the World - E. H. Gombrich
Night Train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier
From The Meadows of Gold - Mas'udi
The Art of Travel - Alain de Botton
Japanese Death Poems - Yoel Hoffman
The Secrets Of Happiness - Richard Schoch
Winnie The Pooh - A.A. Milne
Penguin Guide to Punctuation
All Haruki Murakami...
Stuff:
'Anything too stupid to be said is sung' Voltaire
'When I haven't any blue I use red' Pablo Picasso
'I am a sick man... I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man' Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground
Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply “Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.” A Bear of Very Little Brain (A.A. Milne - Suggested reading: The Tao of Pooh)
A wonderful little Flash animation for the intro to 'Razorblades' by Marz. I love this. Especially the tear that falls down my cheek. So melodramatic. Just like me...
