Music

 

David Bowie

I grew up hearing David Bowie always being played in the background. My mum is a huge fan of his music, so she was always playing his music on the stereo or watching his lastest video on TV, so a love of him and his music just became natural. Everything about him is just brilliant, his music, his style, just the whole personna he puts out is amazing.

 

Kate Bush

I first heard Kate Bush on BBC Radio 1 so many years ago I can't remember, she was giving an interview about the album 'Hounds of Love' and they were playing various excerpts from it and the rest like they say is history. She must be one of the most original artists about, a creative genuis. Her albums are always worth the wait. Her music is just so amazing, rich and deep in emotion, the lyrics just blow your mind. Her video's are always original and visually amazing, from the brilliant The Sensual World dancing in a forest nearly ablaze (one of my favourites), Runnning Up That Hill, with an amazing dance routine to the heartbreaking and beautiful This Woman's Work.

 

Tori Amos

I suppose it's only natural that once you discover Kate Bush you discover Tori Amos. Tori is always being comapared as the American Kate Bush, which I think is very unfair. Both have a very distinct and different sound and approach to music. First hearing 'Silent All These Years' I was just blown away by the lyrics and music and have loved her ever since.

 

Enigma

Engima's music has always been there playing in the back of my head through my teens up to the present day. I was at high school when the song 'Sadness Part 1' was released, the music and combinaton of gregarian monks chanting combined with dance/trance music was so amazing, it was like nothing I had heard before. The album that came with it 'MCMXC a.D.' was something I constantly listened to throughout my teens and to find out recently that the song 'Sadness Part 1' was a kind of homage to the Marquis De Sade was cool and great. Synchronicty working out in all it's myriad ways is great when it happens. Their video's again like there music are amazing and visually stunning especially the video's for 'Gravity of Love' and 'TNT for the Brain' featuring a beautiful young man that reminds me of what Pan might look like.

 

Madonna

Oh what can be said about Madonna that hasn't already been said? Another singer that has featured promintely throughout my teens, from the very first time I heard 'Papa Don't Preach' I loved her music, who she was and what she did. Whether she created controversey or not, her influence cannot be ignored. From her music and what she put out I just learn't not to accept things, to always challenge and explore everything, as all the artists above have taught me as well. To push my boundaries as far forward as possible in whatever way that may be.

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My Motto's

"Basic instincts, social life

Paradoxes side by side

Dont submit to stupid rules

Be yourself and not a fool

Don't accept average habits

Open your heart and push the limits"

(Push the Limits - Enigma)

 

"I am Not from your Tribe"

(Raspberry Swirl - Tori Amos)