Stuff I Like
OK so after a couple of requests, here is a list of bands and artists that have influenced me.
Some of these I have been fortunate/unfortunate to have worked with at some point.
A
A.F.I.
Aaron Goldberg
Aaron Neville
AC/DC (any guitarist should know their catalogue of by heart)
Ace Of Base
Ace Of Clubs
Aereogramme
The Afghan Rug
African Music Machine
Aimee Mann
Air
Akimbo
Akon
Al Green
Alanis Morissette
Alanna Myles
Albert King
Alice Cooper
Alice In Chains
Alicia Keys
Alien Ant Farm
Alison Krauss
Alison Limerick
Alkaline Trio (3 of the nicest people I have ever met)
The All American Rejects
Alphabeat
Alter Bridge
Altered Images
Alvin Cash
Amen
Amen UK
America
American Dog
American Head Charge
American Hi-Fi
Amerie
Amy Winehouse
Anastacia
Anberlin
Andrea Corr (she will one day be my wife)
Andrew WK
Angels And Airwaves
Ann Peebles
Ann Sexton
Anni B Sweet
The Answer
Anyone
Aphex Twin
Aphrodite's c***d
Apollo 440
The Apostles
Arcane Roots
Archie Bell
Arctic Monkeys
Area Code 615
Aretha Franklin
Armand Van Helden
Art Blakey
Art of Noise
Arthur Brown
The Artistics
Ash (very welcoming hosts)
Astro Defenders & The Goose (strange but lovely people)
The Ataris
ATB
Athlete (not as nice as you'd think)
Atomic Rooster
Atomic Suplex
Attaboy Skip
The Attack
Audio Bullys
Audioslave (One of the best "Supergroups" ever????)
Audiovent
The Avalanches
Avenged Sevenfold
The Average White Band
Avril Lavigne (great writing team behind her, ahem)
Axwell
The B-52s
B-Live
B.B.E.
B.E.F.
B.O.B. (the future of hip-hop??)
Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters
Babylon Zoo (very strange people)
Bad Company
Bad Religion
Badly Drawn Boy (Possibly the nicest, most down to earth man in the world)
Bar 9
Barbara Acklin
Barbara Lynn
Barclay James Harvest
Barenaked Ladies
Baron
Basement Jaxx (throw some of the wildest parties)
The Beach Boys
Beat Happening
The Beatles (come on, who doesn't like the beatles?)
The Beatstalkers
Beatty
Beck
Bee Gees (3 of the greatest British songwriters ever)
Belle & Sebastian
Belouis Some
Beloved
Ben Folds
Ben Harper
Ben Kweller
Benny Benassi
Bent
The Beta Band
Betty Davis
Betty Everitt
Betty Harris
Betty Wright
Beverley Knight (one of the hardest working singers I have ever seen)
Beyonce
Biffy Clyro (again, 3 incredibly welcoming men who put on a hell of a show)
Big Black
Big D & The k**s Table
Big Dipper
Bill Charlap
Bill Withers
Billy Butler
Billy Idol
Billy Ocean
Billy Talent
Billy Watkins
Binary Finary
The Bird
Bjork
Black Bayou Contrukt
Black Country Communion
The Black Crowes
Black Eyed Peas
Black Label Society
The Black Rainbows
Black Robot
Black Sabbath
The Black Seeds
Blackbud (3 of the most arrogant young men I have ever worked with)
Black Street
Blancmange
Blink-182
Blondie
The bloodhound Gang
The Blow Monkeys
Blu Cantrell
Blue Boy
Blue Magic
Blue Stars
Blues brothers
Blur
Bob & Earl
Bob Dorough
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Bobby Byrd
Boby Marchan
Bobby Womack
Bon Jovi
Bonnie Raitt
Bonobo
Boobie Knight
Bootsy Collins
Booty Luv
Boston
Bowling For Soup
Box Office Poison
Boy Hits Car
Boy Kill Boy (one of the greatest live bands to emerge from London)
Boys II Men
Brad Paisley
Brainbug
Brand New Heavies
Brand Van 3000
Bread
Break 4 Jazz
Breaking Benjamin
Brian Eno
Brian Eno & David Byrne
Brain Setzer Orchestra
Brian Wilson
Bring Me The Horizon
Britney Spears (i know, i know, but some of those backing tracks are awesome)
Broken Teeth
Bronski Beat
The Brought Low
Bruce Kullick
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bryan Adams
Bryan Ferry
Buckethead
Buddy Holly
Buddy Rich
Bullet For My Valentine (never met anyone so focused and dedicated)
Bullets & Octane
Bush
Busta Rhymes
Butthole Surfers
The Buzzcocks
BYOB
Byron Stingly
The Calling
Calvin Harris
Camel
Camel Hinds
Candi Staton
Capdown
The Capitols
Captain Zapped
Caravan
Cardigans
Carley Simon
The Cars
Catatonia
Cato Street Conspiracy
Cee Lo Green
The Charlatans (really nice conversationalists)
Charles Chaplin
Charles Mingus
Charles Wright
Charlie Hunter
Chase & Status
Cheap Trick
Chef Aid
The Chemical brothers
Chryl Lynn
Chester Bennington
Chevrolet
Chew Lips
The Chi-Lites
Chic
Chicane
Chiddy Bang
Chikinki (cracking blokes and really inventive)
China Crisis
Chris Coco
Chris Cornell (what a voice)
Chris Thomas King
Christina Aguilera
Chumbawumba
Ciara
Citizen Cope
Clarence Carter
The Clash
Classix Nouveaux
Clemon Smith
Cloud Nine
Clown Alley
Coheed & Cambria
Coldplay (generally music for wankers but they have a couple of classics)
Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains
The Commitments
Coolio
The Coral
Corduroy
Corinne Bailey Rae (I was playing with her when she was scouted, great girl)
Cornershop
Corporate Avenger
The Corrs
Cosmin TRG
Counting Crows
Cover The Crisis (One of the best bands to emerge from the SW of England)
Crazy Horse
Crazy Town
Cream
Creature With The Atom Brain
Creed
The Creepshow
Crippled Black Phoenix
Crowded House
The Crusaders
Crystal Waters
The Cult
The Cure
Curtis Mayfield
Curved Air
Cymande
Cyndi Lauper
Cypress Hill
D'Influence
D-Funk
Da Hool
Daft Punk
Damian Marley
Damien Rice (a really annoying, angry little man, but great live & great songs)
Dan Hartman (absolute LEGEND)
The Dandy Warhols (crazy Euro bastards)
Danko Jones
The Darkness
Daryll Hall
Darude
Dave Navarro (my all time hero)
David Bowie (legend, humble, generous and patient, incredible man)
David Draiman
David Gray
David Guetta
David Kitt
David Morales
De La Soul
Dead Or Alive
Deadmau5
Deadstreet Hotel (amazing harmonists from Glastonbury)
Death cab For Cutie
Deborah Harry
Deee-Lite
Deep Purple
Deftones
Del Tha Funky Homosapien
Delphic
Denieice Chandler
Denis COuldrey
Deon Jackson
Depeche Mode
The Derek Trucks Band
Devo
Dexter Wansel
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Diana Vickers
Dido
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dinosaur Junior
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Dire Straights
Dirty Americans (one of the most under-rated bands ever)
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Dirty Pretty Things
The Dirty Strangers
Dirty Vegas
Dislocated Styles
Distance
Disturbed
Dizzee Rascal
Dizzy Gillespie
DJ Insite (amazing producer from Somerset)
DJ Quicksilver
DJ Sammy
DMX
Don Mclean
Donna Summer
The Donnas
Donny Hathaway
Donovan Frankenreiter
The Doobie brothers
The Doors
Double 99
Doves
Down
Dr. Dre
Drowning Pool
Dry Cell
Dry Kill Logic
Duffy
Duke Ellington
Duran Duran
Durban Poison (great metal band from Glastonbury)
Dusty Springfield
E.K.Collective
Eagle-Eye Cherry
The Early November
Earshot
Earth, Wind & Fire
The Echo Union (2 beautiful voices from Bath)
Echobelly
Ed Harcourt
Eddie bro
The Edgar Winter Group
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
Edwin Starr
Eels
Eighties Ladies
El Madmo
Eleanor Rigby
Electric Moon
Electric Six
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Washington
Ellie Goulding
Elliot Minor
Elton John
Elvis Presley
Embassy
ELP
EMF
Eminem
The Emotions
Emperors New Clothes
Empire Of The Sun
Englebert Humperdinck
Engma
Enter Shikari (one of the most intense bands I have shared a stage with)
Erasure
Eric Clapton
Eric Prydz
Erma Franklin
Ethel Beatty
Etta James
Europe
Evan Dando
Evanescence
The Evasions
Eve
Evelyn King
Everclear
Everything But The Girl
Example
Exit 24 (voted NME top 3 unsigned bands in UK, great group who nearly made it)
Extreme
The Faces
Fairfield Four
Fairytale
Faith No More
Faithless
Fall Out Boy
Fang
Fantomas
The Fascinations
Fat Freddy's Drop
The Fatback Band
Fatboy SLim
Fats Waller
Faust
Feeder (some of the nicest blokes EVER)
The Feeling (some of rudest blokes EVER)
Felix
Ferry Corston
Fightstar (can't fault these boys, great performers and great people)
Finch
Finley Quay
Fire
Fishbone
Five For Fighting
The Five Stairsteps
Fleetwood Mac
The Flies
Flipper
Florence & The Machine
FM
Foo Fighters
The Four Tops
Foxy Shazam
Fragma
Frank Zappa
Franz Ferdinand
The Fratellis
The Fray
Freak Power
Fred Wesley
Free
Freemasons
Fugative
Fugazi (the MOST under-rated punk band)
Fugees
Fun Lovin' Criminals (hilarious guys, throw amazing parties)
Funeral For A Friend
Funkadelic
Furniture
The Futures
Galiano
The Game
Garnett Mimms
Gary Numan
The Gaslight Anthem
Gene Chandler
General Patton Vs. The Executioners
Genesis
Gentle Giant
George Martin
George Michael
Gerry Rafferty
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly (forever tired but he works harder than almost anyone)
Girls Aloud
Glenn Miller
Go West
Godhead
Goldbug
Goldfinger
Goldfrapp (Alison is amazing)
Gonzales
The Goo Goo Dolls
Good Charlotte
Gorillaz
Govt. Mule
Graham Coxen
Grandmaster Flash
Grant Green
Green Day
Green River
Groove Armada
Gun
Guns n' Roses
Gwen Stefani
H.E.D. (first band i toured with, GnR meets RHCP, another near miss)
Halifax
Halo (great sessions and subsequent tour, great guys)
Handsome Boy Modelling School
Happy Mondays
Hard-Fi (4 of the most miserable men I have ever met)
Harold Melvin
Hawthorne Heights
Haywoode
The Haze
Head Automatica
Headway
Heatwave
Heaven 17
(hed) Planet Earth
Hell Is For Heroes (really switched on lads with great ethics)
Herbie Hancock
Hole
Honey Cone
Hoobastank (really friendly tourists, good times had by all)
Horace Silver
Hot Chip
House of Pain
Howie Day
Huey Lewis & The News
Human League
Humble Soul
Hundred Reasons (hard working boys, Paul Townsend is a cunt though)
I Blame Coco
I Monster
The Icarus Line
Idlewild
Iggy Pop
Imagination
The Impressions
Incognito
Incubus
Ini Kamoze
InMe (They have overcome so much and still haven't received the recognition)
Interpol (massively over-rated scenesters, but they do write great tunes)
INXS
Irma Thomas
Isaac hayes
The Isley brothers
Izit
J-Kwon
Jack Johnson
Jack Off Jill
Jackie Lee
Jackie Wilson
Jackson 5
Jakatta
James
James Brown
James Carter
James Dean Bradfield
James Last
James Morrison
James Morton's Porkchop (amazing sax player, should go far)
James Taylor
James Taylor Quartet
Jamie Cullum (really funny and very short)
Jamiroquai (massive dickhead but phenominal band)
Jane's Addiction (my all-time favorite band)
Japan
Jarvis
Jason Mraz
Jay-Z
Jay Gordon
Jean Knight
Jean Michel Jarre
Jeff Beck
Jeff Buckley
Jellyfish
Jem
The Jesus & Mary Chain
JET
Jewel
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Eat World
Jody Gayles
Joe Bonamassa
Joe SImon
Joe Tex
Joe Thomas
John COltrane
John Foxx
John Legend
John Legend & The Roots
John lennon
John Martyn
John Mayer
John Mayer Trio
Johnny Cash
Johnny Hates Jazz
Johnny rzeznik
Johnny Winter
Jona Lewie
Jonas brothers
The Jones Girls
Joni Mitchell
Jose Gonzalez
Joss Stone (i heard her demo whilst doing another recording for her producer)
Journey
Joy Division
Joy Orbison
June Conquest
Junior Senior
Just Jack
Justin Timberlake
Kaiser Cheifs
Kajagoogoo
Kamikaze Death-Trip (great alt-punk band from Somerset)
Kanye West
Kasabian
Kaskade
Kat Marsh (amazing singer/musician from Plymouth)
Katy Perry
Ke$ha
Keane (3 biggest tossers i have ever met)
Kelly Jones (top bloke, bought the whole bar a drink)
Keni Burke
Kenny Loggins
Kerb
Kevin Rudolf
k** Rock
k**ney Thieves
The Killers
Killing Joke
Kim Carnes
Kim Wilde
King Floyd
King Prawn
Kings Of Leon
The Kinks
Kiss
The Knack
The Kooks
Kool & The Gang
Korn
Kraftwerk (THE MOST UNDER-RATED GROUP EVER)
Kristian Leontiou
KT Tunstall (beautiful, charming, talented)
Kubb
Kula Shaker (great guys but completely deluded with self-grandeur)
Kyuss
The Las
La Roux
Labelle
Lady Gaga
The Last Shadow Puppets
Laura Lee
Lavern Baker
Lazy Habits (amazing live hip-hop from London from some great guys)
LCD SOundsystem
Led Zeppelin (who doesn't like them really???)
Lee Charles
Lee Dorsey
Lee Morgan
Leena Conquest
Leftfield (phat planet still gets me going)
Lemon Jelly
The Lemonheads
Len
Lenny Kravitz
Leroy Hutson
Level 42
The Libertines
The Lighthouse family
The Lightning Seeds
Lilly Allen
Limp Bizkit
Linda Clifford
Linkin Park
Lisa Lisa
Lit
Little Boots
little Feat
The Little Willies
Living Colour (Massively Under-rated, just listen to Love Rears)
Liz Lands
LL Cool J
Lonnie Smith
Loose Ends
Lostprophets (great lads, yes, even Ian)
Lotus Eaters
Louis Armstrong
Lucie Silvas (amazing songwriter and arranger)
Luniz
Lupe Fiasco
Luther Vandross
Lynus
Lynyrd Skynyrd
M
M People
MFSB
MARRS
Mac Pac
Maceo Parker
Machine Head
Madina Lake (really approachable and pleasant blokes with no musical knowledge)
Madison Avenue
Madonna
The Magic Numbers
Magna Carta
Magnetic Man
Major Harris
Major Lance
The Mama's & The Papa's
A Man Called Adam
Manic Street Preachers
Mantronix
Marc Bolan
Marc Cohn
Marilyn Manson
Mark Ronson
Maroon 5
Maroon Town
The Mars Volta
Marshalsea
Martha Reeves
Marv Johnson
Marvin Gaye
Massive Attack
Material
Mavis Staples
Max Graham
MC Hammer (Who doesn't like him)
McFly
Meat Puppets
Meatloaf
Melvins
Metallica
The Meters (hugely overlooked funk band)
Metro Station
MGMT
Michael Andrews
Michael Buble
Michael Jackson
Michael Manring (amazing bass player)
Michael Nyman (The Piano is one of my favorite songs)
Mickey Murray
Mike And The Mechanics
Mike Oldfield
Mike Patton
Miles Davis
Milo
Moby
Modjo
Moloko
Moody Blues
Moody Scott
Moony
Morcheba
Morning Call
Mother Earth
Mother Love Bone
Motion City Soundtrack (really warm people i have shared some stages with)
Motley Crue
Motorhead
Mott the Hoople
Mouse
Mr Big
Mr Bungle
MTume
Mudhoney
Mumford & Sons
Muse (unfortunately, Matt and Dom are pricks but Chris is so sound)
Mushroomhead
The Music
My Chemical Romance
My Story
My Vitriol (really moody and quiet guys)
Myme (amazing turntablist, now based in London with his own show)
N.E.R.D.
N.I.N.
N.W.A.
Nadine
Nas
Nas & Damian Marley (amazing summer album)
Nat King Cole
Natalie Imbruglia
Natasha Bedingfield (seriously, mad as a box of frogs)
Nazareth
Nelly
Nelly Furtado
New Breed
New Found Glory
New Jersey Kings
New Order
Newton Faulkner (properly nice man, able to chat about anything)
The Nice
Nick Drake
Nickelback
Night Horse
Night Train
Nightmare Of You
Nightmares On Wax
Nikka Costa
Nirvana
No Doubt
Noisettes (incredibly arrogant but amazing performers)
Norah Jones
The Notions
Nouvelle Vague
*NSYNC
The O'Jays
Oasis
Obadiah Parker
Ocean Colour Scene
Odyssey
The Offspring
The Ohio Players
Ohm
Olive
Omar
OPM
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
The Ordinary Boys (Preston is actually a really sound bloke)
Orson (nicest group of americans i've played with)
Otis Leavill
Otis Redding
Our Lady Peace
Outer Limits
Outkast
Owl City
Ozzy Osbourne
P!nk
P.O.D.
Paloma Faith
Panic! At The Disco
Pantera
Papa Roach
Paramore
Paranoia (now disbanded but amazing group from SW)
Parliament
Pathaan
Patti Smith Group
Paul Gilbert
Paul Hardcastle
Paul weller
Pavement
Pearl Jam
Pee Wee Ellis
Peggy Lee
Pendulum
A Perfect Circle
Periphery
Perry Farrell
The Persuaders
Pet Shop Boys
Peter Green (shot to fuck but a really nice man with stories to tell)
Peter Green Splinter Group (as above really, great backing band)
Phil Collins
Phillip Sayce
Pink Floyd
PItchshifter
Pixie Lott
Pixies
PJ
Placebo
Plan B
The Plastic Ono Band
The Poets
Poison
Pop Will Eat Itself
Porcupine Tree
Porno For Pyros
Portishead (4 of the nicest people, Jim Barr gave me my first real break)
Power Station
PPK
Pretty Little Suicide
Primal Scream
Primus (massive influence on me)
Prince (THE SOUND OF THE 80s)
Proclaimers
Prodigy
Professor Green
Propellorheads
Puff Daddy
Pulp
Pure Reason Revolution (intense performers, amazing wall of sound)
The Pussycat Dolls
Queen
Queens Of The Stone Age
Quiet Boys
Quincy Jones
R.E.M.
Raconteurs
Radiohead
Rage Against The Machine
Raging Speedhorn (portrayed as hardmen, bunch of wimps with splinters)
Ram Jam
Rammstein
Rancid
Randy Crawford
Randy Newman
Ray Charles
Ray Davies
Razorlight
The Real Thing
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Reef (the biggest stoners ever but sound, all of them, just sound)
Reel Big Fish
Remy Zero
Reverend And The Makers
Richard Sleeman
Rihanna
The Ripple
Rob Zombie
Robbie WIlliams
Robert Johnson
Robert Miles
Robert Palmer
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Roll Deep
Rolling Stones
Roni Size (so laid back, did some samples for him, legend)
Ronny Jordan
Rooster (biggest REEF wannabes, massive fail)
The Roots
Rory Gallagher
Rose Royce
Ross Windross
Roxette
Roxy Music
Roy Ayers
Roy Brown
Run DMC
Rush
Ryan Adams
Ryan Star
Saliva
Sandals
Santana
Sara Bereilles
Sarah Curtis
Sarah McClaughln
Sash
Satellite Party
The Saturdays
Scissor sisters
The Score
Scouting For Girls
Sea-Ders
Self Against City
Semisonic
Sepultura
The Shadows
Shadows Burn
Shapeshifter
Sheryl Crow
Silverchair
Simon And Garfunkle
Simple Minds
Sixpence None The Richer
Skinflower (had to sneak this one in)
Skull Snaps
Skunk Anansie (where to begin, great people, willing to teach, sound as fuck)
Slash
SLipknot
Sly & The family Stone
The Small Faces
Smash Mouth
Smashing Pumpkins
The SMiths
Smokey Robinson
Smooth
Snoop Dogg
Snow Patrol
Snowboy
Soft Cell
Soil
Something Corporate
Soul Hooligan
Soulfly
Soulja Boy
Soundgarden
The SOurce
Space
Sparks
Spearhead
SPiller
Spin Doctors
Spineshank
The SPinners
Squire
Stabbing Westward
Stage
Staind
Stan Tracey
Starsailor
Static-X
Status-Quo
Stealers Wheel
Steel Dragon (fiction band from the movie Rock Star, watch it)
Steel Panther
Steppenwolf
Stereo MCs
Stereophonics
Stevie Nicks
Stevie WOnder
Sting & The Police
STone Roses
Stone Sour
Stone Temple Pilots
Story Of The Year
Strutt
Stylistics
Sub Focus
The Subways
Suede
Sugababes
Sum 41
Sunna (dark people but created amazing music, straight outta Bristol)
Sunship
Supergrass
The Supermen Lovers
Supertramp
Switchfoot
Syl Johnson
System Of A Down
Take That
Taking Back Sunday
Talking Heads
Talvin Singh
Taproot
Taylor Swift
Tears For Fears (ive never seen two people argue so much, tour was cancelled)
Ted Nugent
Teddy Pendergrass
Television
Temple Of The Dog
Temptations
Tenacious D
Terrorvision
Texas
Thelonious Monk
Them Crooked Vultures
Thin Lizzy
Thom Wallis (crazy electro stuff from Surrey)
Thom Yorke
Thrice
Tin Machine
Tina Turner
Ting Tings
Tinie tempah
Tobermory
Tom Jones
Tom Petty
Tom Waits
Tommie Young
Tool
Toploader (pricks, nothing more)
Toto
Tower Of Power
Tracy Chapman
Train
Travis
A Tribe Called Quest
Tricky (massive prat but creates some incredible music)
Trinity Roots
Tyrone Davis
Underworld
Unicorn k**
The Union
The Used
Usher
Van Halen
Velvet Revolver
The Velvet Underground
The Verve
The Verve Pipe
The Vines
Vital Techtones
Wannadies
Warren G
We Are Scientists
Ween
Weezer
Wheatus
White Lies
White Stripes
White ZOmbie
Whitesnake
The Who
The Wildhearts
Wilson Pickett
Wilt
Wire
Wu-Tang Clan
X-Ecutioners
Yazoo
Yes
Young Guns
Yourcodenameis:Milo
The Zutons
Zwan
ZZ Top
2-Pac
24 Storys
28 Days
30 Seconds to Mars
That's about it.
Hope there's something here you investigate and listen to, that's what it's here for
Some of these I have been fortunate/unfortunate to have worked with at some point.
A
A.F.I.
Aaron Goldberg
Aaron Neville
AC/DC (any guitarist should know their catalogue of by heart)
Ace Of Base
Ace Of Clubs
Aereogramme
The Afghan Rug
African Music Machine
Aimee Mann
Air
Akimbo
Akon
Al Green
Alanis Morissette
Alanna Myles
Albert King
Alice Cooper
Alice In Chains
Alicia Keys
Alien Ant Farm
Alison Krauss
Alison Limerick
Alkaline Trio (3 of the nicest people I have ever met)
The All American Rejects
Alphabeat
Alter Bridge
Altered Images
Alvin Cash
Amen
Amen UK
America
American Dog
American Head Charge
American Hi-Fi
Amerie
Amy Winehouse
Anastacia
Anberlin
Andrea Corr (she will one day be my wife)
Andrew WK
Angels And Airwaves
Ann Peebles
Ann Sexton
Anni B Sweet
The Answer
Anyone
Aphex Twin
Aphrodite's c***d
Apollo 440
The Apostles
Arcane Roots
Archie Bell
Arctic Monkeys
Area Code 615
Aretha Franklin
Armand Van Helden
Art Blakey
Art of Noise
Arthur Brown
The Artistics
Ash (very welcoming hosts)
Astro Defenders & The Goose (strange but lovely people)
The Ataris
ATB
Athlete (not as nice as you'd think)
Atomic Rooster
Atomic Suplex
Attaboy Skip
The Attack
Audio Bullys
Audioslave (One of the best "Supergroups" ever????)
Audiovent
The Avalanches
Avenged Sevenfold
The Average White Band
Avril Lavigne (great writing team behind her, ahem)
Axwell
The B-52s
B-Live
B.B.E.
B.E.F.
B.O.B. (the future of hip-hop??)
Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters
Babylon Zoo (very strange people)
Bad Company
Bad Religion
Badly Drawn Boy (Possibly the nicest, most down to earth man in the world)
Bar 9
Barbara Acklin
Barbara Lynn
Barclay James Harvest
Barenaked Ladies
Baron
Basement Jaxx (throw some of the wildest parties)
The Beach Boys
Beat Happening
The Beatles (come on, who doesn't like the beatles?)
The Beatstalkers
Beatty
Beck
Bee Gees (3 of the greatest British songwriters ever)
Belle & Sebastian
Belouis Some
Beloved
Ben Folds
Ben Harper
Ben Kweller
Benny Benassi
Bent
The Beta Band
Betty Davis
Betty Everitt
Betty Harris
Betty Wright
Beverley Knight (one of the hardest working singers I have ever seen)
Beyonce
Biffy Clyro (again, 3 incredibly welcoming men who put on a hell of a show)
Big Black
Big D & The k**s Table
Big Dipper
Bill Charlap
Bill Withers
Billy Butler
Billy Idol
Billy Ocean
Billy Talent
Billy Watkins
Binary Finary
The Bird
Bjork
Black Bayou Contrukt
Black Country Communion
The Black Crowes
Black Eyed Peas
Black Label Society
The Black Rainbows
Black Robot
Black Sabbath
The Black Seeds
Blackbud (3 of the most arrogant young men I have ever worked with)
Black Street
Blancmange
Blink-182
Blondie
The bloodhound Gang
The Blow Monkeys
Blu Cantrell
Blue Boy
Blue Magic
Blue Stars
Blues brothers
Blur
Bob & Earl
Bob Dorough
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Bobby Byrd
Boby Marchan
Bobby Womack
Bon Jovi
Bonnie Raitt
Bonobo
Boobie Knight
Bootsy Collins
Booty Luv
Boston
Bowling For Soup
Box Office Poison
Boy Hits Car
Boy Kill Boy (one of the greatest live bands to emerge from London)
Boys II Men
Brad Paisley
Brainbug
Brand New Heavies
Brand Van 3000
Bread
Break 4 Jazz
Breaking Benjamin
Brian Eno
Brian Eno & David Byrne
Brain Setzer Orchestra
Brian Wilson
Bring Me The Horizon
Britney Spears (i know, i know, but some of those backing tracks are awesome)
Broken Teeth
Bronski Beat
The Brought Low
Bruce Kullick
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bryan Adams
Bryan Ferry
Buckethead
Buddy Holly
Buddy Rich
Bullet For My Valentine (never met anyone so focused and dedicated)
Bullets & Octane
Bush
Busta Rhymes
Butthole Surfers
The Buzzcocks
BYOB
Byron Stingly
The Calling
Calvin Harris
Camel
Camel Hinds
Candi Staton
Capdown
The Capitols
Captain Zapped
Caravan
Cardigans
Carley Simon
The Cars
Catatonia
Cato Street Conspiracy
Cee Lo Green
The Charlatans (really nice conversationalists)
Charles Chaplin
Charles Mingus
Charles Wright
Charlie Hunter
Chase & Status
Cheap Trick
Chef Aid
The Chemical brothers
Chryl Lynn
Chester Bennington
Chevrolet
Chew Lips
The Chi-Lites
Chic
Chicane
Chiddy Bang
Chikinki (cracking blokes and really inventive)
China Crisis
Chris Coco
Chris Cornell (what a voice)
Chris Thomas King
Christina Aguilera
Chumbawumba
Ciara
Citizen Cope
Clarence Carter
The Clash
Classix Nouveaux
Clemon Smith
Cloud Nine
Clown Alley
Coheed & Cambria
Coldplay (generally music for wankers but they have a couple of classics)
Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains
The Commitments
Coolio
The Coral
Corduroy
Corinne Bailey Rae (I was playing with her when she was scouted, great girl)
Cornershop
Corporate Avenger
The Corrs
Cosmin TRG
Counting Crows
Cover The Crisis (One of the best bands to emerge from the SW of England)
Crazy Horse
Crazy Town
Cream
Creature With The Atom Brain
Creed
The Creepshow
Crippled Black Phoenix
Crowded House
The Crusaders
Crystal Waters
The Cult
The Cure
Curtis Mayfield
Curved Air
Cymande
Cyndi Lauper
Cypress Hill
D'Influence
D-Funk
Da Hool
Daft Punk
Damian Marley
Damien Rice (a really annoying, angry little man, but great live & great songs)
Dan Hartman (absolute LEGEND)
The Dandy Warhols (crazy Euro bastards)
Danko Jones
The Darkness
Daryll Hall
Darude
Dave Navarro (my all time hero)
David Bowie (legend, humble, generous and patient, incredible man)
David Draiman
David Gray
David Guetta
David Kitt
David Morales
De La Soul
Dead Or Alive
Deadmau5
Deadstreet Hotel (amazing harmonists from Glastonbury)
Death cab For Cutie
Deborah Harry
Deee-Lite
Deep Purple
Deftones
Del Tha Funky Homosapien
Delphic
Denieice Chandler
Denis COuldrey
Deon Jackson
Depeche Mode
The Derek Trucks Band
Devo
Dexter Wansel
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Diana Vickers
Dido
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dinosaur Junior
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Dire Straights
Dirty Americans (one of the most under-rated bands ever)
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Dirty Pretty Things
The Dirty Strangers
Dirty Vegas
Dislocated Styles
Distance
Disturbed
Dizzee Rascal
Dizzy Gillespie
DJ Insite (amazing producer from Somerset)
DJ Quicksilver
DJ Sammy
DMX
Don Mclean
Donna Summer
The Donnas
Donny Hathaway
Donovan Frankenreiter
The Doobie brothers
The Doors
Double 99
Doves
Down
Dr. Dre
Drowning Pool
Dry Cell
Dry Kill Logic
Duffy
Duke Ellington
Duran Duran
Durban Poison (great metal band from Glastonbury)
Dusty Springfield
E.K.Collective
Eagle-Eye Cherry
The Early November
Earshot
Earth, Wind & Fire
The Echo Union (2 beautiful voices from Bath)
Echobelly
Ed Harcourt
Eddie bro
The Edgar Winter Group
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
Edwin Starr
Eels
Eighties Ladies
El Madmo
Eleanor Rigby
Electric Moon
Electric Six
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Washington
Ellie Goulding
Elliot Minor
Elton John
Elvis Presley
Embassy
ELP
EMF
Eminem
The Emotions
Emperors New Clothes
Empire Of The Sun
Englebert Humperdinck
Engma
Enter Shikari (one of the most intense bands I have shared a stage with)
Erasure
Eric Clapton
Eric Prydz
Erma Franklin
Ethel Beatty
Etta James
Europe
Evan Dando
Evanescence
The Evasions
Eve
Evelyn King
Everclear
Everything But The Girl
Example
Exit 24 (voted NME top 3 unsigned bands in UK, great group who nearly made it)
Extreme
The Faces
Fairfield Four
Fairytale
Faith No More
Faithless
Fall Out Boy
Fang
Fantomas
The Fascinations
Fat Freddy's Drop
The Fatback Band
Fatboy SLim
Fats Waller
Faust
Feeder (some of the nicest blokes EVER)
The Feeling (some of rudest blokes EVER)
Felix
Ferry Corston
Fightstar (can't fault these boys, great performers and great people)
Finch
Finley Quay
Fire
Fishbone
Five For Fighting
The Five Stairsteps
Fleetwood Mac
The Flies
Flipper
Florence & The Machine
FM
Foo Fighters
The Four Tops
Foxy Shazam
Fragma
Frank Zappa
Franz Ferdinand
The Fratellis
The Fray
Freak Power
Fred Wesley
Free
Freemasons
Fugative
Fugazi (the MOST under-rated punk band)
Fugees
Fun Lovin' Criminals (hilarious guys, throw amazing parties)
Funeral For A Friend
Funkadelic
Furniture
The Futures
Galiano
The Game
Garnett Mimms
Gary Numan
The Gaslight Anthem
Gene Chandler
General Patton Vs. The Executioners
Genesis
Gentle Giant
George Martin
George Michael
Gerry Rafferty
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly (forever tired but he works harder than almost anyone)
Girls Aloud
Glenn Miller
Go West
Godhead
Goldbug
Goldfinger
Goldfrapp (Alison is amazing)
Gonzales
The Goo Goo Dolls
Good Charlotte
Gorillaz
Govt. Mule
Graham Coxen
Grandmaster Flash
Grant Green
Green Day
Green River
Groove Armada
Gun
Guns n' Roses
Gwen Stefani
H.E.D. (first band i toured with, GnR meets RHCP, another near miss)
Halifax
Halo (great sessions and subsequent tour, great guys)
Handsome Boy Modelling School
Happy Mondays
Hard-Fi (4 of the most miserable men I have ever met)
Harold Melvin
Hawthorne Heights
Haywoode
The Haze
Head Automatica
Headway
Heatwave
Heaven 17
(hed) Planet Earth
Hell Is For Heroes (really switched on lads with great ethics)
Herbie Hancock
Hole
Honey Cone
Hoobastank (really friendly tourists, good times had by all)
Horace Silver
Hot Chip
House of Pain
Howie Day
Huey Lewis & The News
Human League
Humble Soul
Hundred Reasons (hard working boys, Paul Townsend is a cunt though)
I Blame Coco
I Monster
The Icarus Line
Idlewild
Iggy Pop
Imagination
The Impressions
Incognito
Incubus
Ini Kamoze
InMe (They have overcome so much and still haven't received the recognition)
Interpol (massively over-rated scenesters, but they do write great tunes)
INXS
Irma Thomas
Isaac hayes
The Isley brothers
Izit
J-Kwon
Jack Johnson
Jack Off Jill
Jackie Lee
Jackie Wilson
Jackson 5
Jakatta
James
James Brown
James Carter
James Dean Bradfield
James Last
James Morrison
James Morton's Porkchop (amazing sax player, should go far)
James Taylor
James Taylor Quartet
Jamie Cullum (really funny and very short)
Jamiroquai (massive dickhead but phenominal band)
Jane's Addiction (my all-time favorite band)
Japan
Jarvis
Jason Mraz
Jay-Z
Jay Gordon
Jean Knight
Jean Michel Jarre
Jeff Beck
Jeff Buckley
Jellyfish
Jem
The Jesus & Mary Chain
JET
Jewel
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Eat World
Jody Gayles
Joe Bonamassa
Joe SImon
Joe Tex
Joe Thomas
John COltrane
John Foxx
John Legend
John Legend & The Roots
John lennon
John Martyn
John Mayer
John Mayer Trio
Johnny Cash
Johnny Hates Jazz
Johnny rzeznik
Johnny Winter
Jona Lewie
Jonas brothers
The Jones Girls
Joni Mitchell
Jose Gonzalez
Joss Stone (i heard her demo whilst doing another recording for her producer)
Journey
Joy Division
Joy Orbison
June Conquest
Junior Senior
Just Jack
Justin Timberlake
Kaiser Cheifs
Kajagoogoo
Kamikaze Death-Trip (great alt-punk band from Somerset)
Kanye West
Kasabian
Kaskade
Kat Marsh (amazing singer/musician from Plymouth)
Katy Perry
Ke$ha
Keane (3 biggest tossers i have ever met)
Kelly Jones (top bloke, bought the whole bar a drink)
Keni Burke
Kenny Loggins
Kerb
Kevin Rudolf
k** Rock
k**ney Thieves
The Killers
Killing Joke
Kim Carnes
Kim Wilde
King Floyd
King Prawn
Kings Of Leon
The Kinks
Kiss
The Knack
The Kooks
Kool & The Gang
Korn
Kraftwerk (THE MOST UNDER-RATED GROUP EVER)
Kristian Leontiou
KT Tunstall (beautiful, charming, talented)
Kubb
Kula Shaker (great guys but completely deluded with self-grandeur)
Kyuss
The Las
La Roux
Labelle
Lady Gaga
The Last Shadow Puppets
Laura Lee
Lavern Baker
Lazy Habits (amazing live hip-hop from London from some great guys)
LCD SOundsystem
Led Zeppelin (who doesn't like them really???)
Lee Charles
Lee Dorsey
Lee Morgan
Leena Conquest
Leftfield (phat planet still gets me going)
Lemon Jelly
The Lemonheads
Len
Lenny Kravitz
Leroy Hutson
Level 42
The Libertines
The Lighthouse family
The Lightning Seeds
Lilly Allen
Limp Bizkit
Linda Clifford
Linkin Park
Lisa Lisa
Lit
Little Boots
little Feat
The Little Willies
Living Colour (Massively Under-rated, just listen to Love Rears)
Liz Lands
LL Cool J
Lonnie Smith
Loose Ends
Lostprophets (great lads, yes, even Ian)
Lotus Eaters
Louis Armstrong
Lucie Silvas (amazing songwriter and arranger)
Luniz
Lupe Fiasco
Luther Vandross
Lynus
Lynyrd Skynyrd
M
M People
MFSB
MARRS
Mac Pac
Maceo Parker
Machine Head
Madina Lake (really approachable and pleasant blokes with no musical knowledge)
Madison Avenue
Madonna
The Magic Numbers
Magna Carta
Magnetic Man
Major Harris
Major Lance
The Mama's & The Papa's
A Man Called Adam
Manic Street Preachers
Mantronix
Marc Bolan
Marc Cohn
Marilyn Manson
Mark Ronson
Maroon 5
Maroon Town
The Mars Volta
Marshalsea
Martha Reeves
Marv Johnson
Marvin Gaye
Massive Attack
Material
Mavis Staples
Max Graham
MC Hammer (Who doesn't like him)
McFly
Meat Puppets
Meatloaf
Melvins
Metallica
The Meters (hugely overlooked funk band)
Metro Station
MGMT
Michael Andrews
Michael Buble
Michael Jackson
Michael Manring (amazing bass player)
Michael Nyman (The Piano is one of my favorite songs)
Mickey Murray
Mike And The Mechanics
Mike Oldfield
Mike Patton
Miles Davis
Milo
Moby
Modjo
Moloko
Moody Blues
Moody Scott
Moony
Morcheba
Morning Call
Mother Earth
Mother Love Bone
Motion City Soundtrack (really warm people i have shared some stages with)
Motley Crue
Motorhead
Mott the Hoople
Mouse
Mr Big
Mr Bungle
MTume
Mudhoney
Mumford & Sons
Muse (unfortunately, Matt and Dom are pricks but Chris is so sound)
Mushroomhead
The Music
My Chemical Romance
My Story
My Vitriol (really moody and quiet guys)
Myme (amazing turntablist, now based in London with his own show)
N.E.R.D.
N.I.N.
N.W.A.
Nadine
Nas
Nas & Damian Marley (amazing summer album)
Nat King Cole
Natalie Imbruglia
Natasha Bedingfield (seriously, mad as a box of frogs)
Nazareth
Nelly
Nelly Furtado
New Breed
New Found Glory
New Jersey Kings
New Order
Newton Faulkner (properly nice man, able to chat about anything)
The Nice
Nick Drake
Nickelback
Night Horse
Night Train
Nightmare Of You
Nightmares On Wax
Nikka Costa
Nirvana
No Doubt
Noisettes (incredibly arrogant but amazing performers)
Norah Jones
The Notions
Nouvelle Vague
*NSYNC
The O'Jays
Oasis
Obadiah Parker
Ocean Colour Scene
Odyssey
The Offspring
The Ohio Players
Ohm
Olive
Omar
OPM
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
The Ordinary Boys (Preston is actually a really sound bloke)
Orson (nicest group of americans i've played with)
Otis Leavill
Otis Redding
Our Lady Peace
Outer Limits
Outkast
Owl City
Ozzy Osbourne
P!nk
P.O.D.
Paloma Faith
Panic! At The Disco
Pantera
Papa Roach
Paramore
Paranoia (now disbanded but amazing group from SW)
Parliament
Pathaan
Patti Smith Group
Paul Gilbert
Paul Hardcastle
Paul weller
Pavement
Pearl Jam
Pee Wee Ellis
Peggy Lee
Pendulum
A Perfect Circle
Periphery
Perry Farrell
The Persuaders
Pet Shop Boys
Peter Green (shot to fuck but a really nice man with stories to tell)
Peter Green Splinter Group (as above really, great backing band)
Phil Collins
Phillip Sayce
Pink Floyd
PItchshifter
Pixie Lott
Pixies
PJ
Placebo
Plan B
The Plastic Ono Band
The Poets
Poison
Pop Will Eat Itself
Porcupine Tree
Porno For Pyros
Portishead (4 of the nicest people, Jim Barr gave me my first real break)
Power Station
PPK
Pretty Little Suicide
Primal Scream
Primus (massive influence on me)
Prince (THE SOUND OF THE 80s)
Proclaimers
Prodigy
Professor Green
Propellorheads
Puff Daddy
Pulp
Pure Reason Revolution (intense performers, amazing wall of sound)
The Pussycat Dolls
Queen
Queens Of The Stone Age
Quiet Boys
Quincy Jones
R.E.M.
Raconteurs
Radiohead
Rage Against The Machine
Raging Speedhorn (portrayed as hardmen, bunch of wimps with splinters)
Ram Jam
Rammstein
Rancid
Randy Crawford
Randy Newman
Ray Charles
Ray Davies
Razorlight
The Real Thing
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Reef (the biggest stoners ever but sound, all of them, just sound)
Reel Big Fish
Remy Zero
Reverend And The Makers
Richard Sleeman
Rihanna
The Ripple
Rob Zombie
Robbie WIlliams
Robert Johnson
Robert Miles
Robert Palmer
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Roll Deep
Rolling Stones
Roni Size (so laid back, did some samples for him, legend)
Ronny Jordan
Rooster (biggest REEF wannabes, massive fail)
The Roots
Rory Gallagher
Rose Royce
Ross Windross
Roxette
Roxy Music
Roy Ayers
Roy Brown
Run DMC
Rush
Ryan Adams
Ryan Star
Saliva
Sandals
Santana
Sara Bereilles
Sarah Curtis
Sarah McClaughln
Sash
Satellite Party
The Saturdays
Scissor sisters
The Score
Scouting For Girls
Sea-Ders
Self Against City
Semisonic
Sepultura
The Shadows
Shadows Burn
Shapeshifter
Sheryl Crow
Silverchair
Simon And Garfunkle
Simple Minds
Sixpence None The Richer
Skinflower (had to sneak this one in)
Skull Snaps
Skunk Anansie (where to begin, great people, willing to teach, sound as fuck)
Slash
SLipknot
Sly & The family Stone
The Small Faces
Smash Mouth
Smashing Pumpkins
The SMiths
Smokey Robinson
Smooth
Snoop Dogg
Snow Patrol
Snowboy
Soft Cell
Soil
Something Corporate
Soul Hooligan
Soulfly
Soulja Boy
Soundgarden
The SOurce
Space
Sparks
Spearhead
SPiller
Spin Doctors
Spineshank
The SPinners
Squire
Stabbing Westward
Stage
Staind
Stan Tracey
Starsailor
Static-X
Status-Quo
Stealers Wheel
Steel Dragon (fiction band from the movie Rock Star, watch it)
Steel Panther
Steppenwolf
Stereo MCs
Stereophonics
Stevie Nicks
Stevie WOnder
Sting & The Police
STone Roses
Stone Sour
Stone Temple Pilots
Story Of The Year
Strutt
Stylistics
Sub Focus
The Subways
Suede
Sugababes
Sum 41
Sunna (dark people but created amazing music, straight outta Bristol)
Sunship
Supergrass
The Supermen Lovers
Supertramp
Switchfoot
Syl Johnson
System Of A Down
Take That
Taking Back Sunday
Talking Heads
Talvin Singh
Taproot
Taylor Swift
Tears For Fears (ive never seen two people argue so much, tour was cancelled)
Ted Nugent
Teddy Pendergrass
Television
Temple Of The Dog
Temptations
Tenacious D
Terrorvision
Texas
Thelonious Monk
Them Crooked Vultures
Thin Lizzy
Thom Wallis (crazy electro stuff from Surrey)
Thom Yorke
Thrice
Tin Machine
Tina Turner
Ting Tings
Tinie tempah
Tobermory
Tom Jones
Tom Petty
Tom Waits
Tommie Young
Tool
Toploader (pricks, nothing more)
Toto
Tower Of Power
Tracy Chapman
Train
Travis
A Tribe Called Quest
Tricky (massive prat but creates some incredible music)
Trinity Roots
Tyrone Davis
Underworld
Unicorn k**
The Union
The Used
Usher
Van Halen
Velvet Revolver
The Velvet Underground
The Verve
The Verve Pipe
The Vines
Vital Techtones
Wannadies
Warren G
We Are Scientists
Ween
Weezer
Wheatus
White Lies
White Stripes
White ZOmbie
Whitesnake
The Who
The Wildhearts
Wilson Pickett
Wilt
Wire
Wu-Tang Clan
X-Ecutioners
Yazoo
Yes
Young Guns
Yourcodenameis:Milo
The Zutons
Zwan
ZZ Top
2-Pac
24 Storys
28 Days
30 Seconds to Mars
That's about it.
Hope there's something here you investigate and listen to, that's what it's here for
13 years ago
