As well as writing songs I listen to alot of music to get inspiration. Heres my top ten at the moment:-
1) Kate Rusby – make the light
2) The hold steady – heaven is whenever
3) Mudhoney – the lucky ones
4) Soundgarden – down on the upside
5) Bob Marley- catch a fire
6) Fugazi – the argument
7) Meat Puppets- no joke
8) Bert Jansch – anthology
9) Pearl Jam – backspacer
10) Banco de gaia – memories, dreams, reflections

• The eternal – Sonic youth
• Ghost – Kate Rusby
• Full moon fever – Tom Petty
• Love is my religon – Ziggy Marley
• Rainy day music – The Jayhawks
• Pronounce leh-nerd-skin-nerd- Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Lightning bolt – Pearl Jam
• Superunknown – Soundgarden
• Specter at the feast – Black rebel motorcycle club

• The Quireboys – beautiful curse
• The del lords- elvis club
• Radiohead – in rainbows
• Black sabbath – 13
• Live – throwing copper
• Teenage fanclub – original album classics
• Goa tribes – volume 2
• Sub pop 200
• Alice in Chains – the devil put dinosaurs here

1. easter everywhere – 13th floor elevators
2. first rays of the new rising sun – Jimi Hendrix
3. High hopes – Bruce Springsteen
4. Mechanical bull – Kings of Leon
5. Echoes of the outlaw roadshow – Counting Crows
6. Sugaring season – Beth Orton
7. Fight for your mind – Ben Harper
8. To the capsules – Senser
9. Thirteen – Teenage fanclub
10. on and on – Jack Johnson

1) Syd Barrett – the madcap laughs
2)Buffalo Tom – three easy pieces
3) Creedance clearwater revival – green river
4) Meat Puppets – lollipop
5) Banco de gaia – songs from the silk road
6) The doors – morrison hotel
7) Nirvana – unplugged in new york
8) Eddie Vedder – ukulele songs
9) Vieux Farke Toure – Remixed: ufo’s over bamako
10) Jah Wobble and the chinese dub orchestra – chinese dub

Currently listening to the following albums..

Benjamin Booker
Teenage fan club – Bandwagonesque
Peter Tosh – Equal rights
Band of Horses – Acoustic at the ryman
Natalie Merchant – paradise is there
Black Uhuru – Liberation
Soundgarden – down on the upside
Jason Isbell – something more than free
Brain cell
Alice in Chains – the devil put dinosaurs here…..

1. carnival – natalie merchant
2. which side are you on – ani difranco
3. inside job – pearl jam
4. the great divide – neil young
5. my god is the sun – queens of the stone age
6. live it up – airbourne
7. bones of birds – soundgarden
8. I wanna be sedated – ramones

1)Wilco – the whole love
2)Grateful Dead – europe ’72
3)Faith No More – the real thing
4)Weezer – make believe
5)Gillian Welch – the harrow and the harvest
6)Tinariwen – tassali
7)counting crows – august and everything after
8)The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis:bold as love
9)Tricky – maxinquaye
10)Neil Young – dreamin man live ’92

1. Eels – electro- shock blues
2. Sonic youth – washing machine
3. Bruce Springsteen – wrecking ball
4. Pearl jam – lost dogs
5. Prodigy – the fat of the land
6. chemical brothers – exit planet dust
7. Portishead – dummy
8. Foo fighters – foo fighters
9. Crowded house – farewell to the world
10. Juana Molina – un dia

1) The black crowes- wolverhampton civic hall – 1997
I have been a black crowes fan all my life and are one of the best bands I have seen live. This was on the three snakes and one charm tour and they were really on form.
2)Pearl Jam – Manchester evening news arena. august 17, 2009
My favourite band and my biggest inspiration. I saw them first in 2000 at the same venue and really enjoyed that gig, but 2009 was a special moment, feeling emotional and singing along with alive, unforgettable.
3) Tinariwen – womad festival, reading 2004
With two friends, we really felt we had been transported to the desert, one of the best bands in the world.
4) Oysterband, cambridge folk festival, 1999
Really enjoyed this gig. the band were on good form.
5) AC/DC – nec, birmingham , 2000
After listening to AC/DC all my life, I was really looking forward to this gig and was not disappointed. Played all the classics, brilliant.
6) Return to the source, brixton academy, london 1998
An all night party of psychedelic trance and ambient sounds, danced all night.
7) Rachid Taha, Womad, Wiltshire 2008
Really good atmosphere and life affirming set, crowd were great.
8) Altaikai , Womad 2008
A throat singing band from mongollia, brought to tears by their honesty and connected to the sounds of their natural world.
9) Apache Indian – musicport festival, Whitby 2006
Really good atmosphere, danced through the whole gig.
10) Grooverider. Phoenix festival, near stratford. 1996
Went to this festival with friends from college and spent most of the time in the dance tent, with grooverider, a drum and bass artist, being my favourite.