I dunno what Radiohead song it was, but my brother played Radiohead when we shared the same room as kids. It blew my mind. I think it was when I saw a live performance of Idioteque that really changed my perspective on music though. Most of the music performances that I've seen before had absurdly good looking people doing perfectly choreographed dancing with pitch perfect musical performances. But I was looking at was a fairly normal looking bloke throwing himself into the music, not caring whether he looked cool or not.
That particular performance is still a massive inspiration to me, and probably was what gave me the strength to start writing my own music. It told me that you didn't have to be a perfect looking person with the perfect body and voice to write and perform great music.
Sonic Youth was also a really important band in my life, and the song that I listened to first was 100%. The song that really got me into them was Schizophrenia though. I listened to them mostly because I heard their name getting thrown around so much by music fans. I don't listen to them or like them nearly as much as I used to, but their guitar work massively influenced the way I approached guitar.
That particular performance is still a massive inspiration to me, and probably was what gave me the strength to start writing my own music. It told me that you didn't have to be a perfect looking person with the perfect body and voice to write and perform great music.
Sonic Youth was also a really important band in my life, and the song that I listened to first was 100%. The song that really got me into them was Schizophrenia though. I listened to them mostly because I heard their name getting thrown around so much by music fans. I don't listen to them or like them nearly as much as I used to, but their guitar work massively influenced the way I approached guitar.
