Lynnette Shelley

Influences: psychedelic & space rock; avant garde; medieval & early music; progressive & experimental music; garage rock, sixties rock & some classic rock; psychedelic folk music, random weirdness, meteorological conditions, dreams & artwork, books & words, fairy tales, mythologies, Childs Ballads, nature

Favorite vocalists: Peter Hammill, Peter Murphy, Grace Slick, Sally Norvell, Yma Sumac, Diamanda Galas, PJ Harvey, Lisa Gerrard, Siouxsie Sioux, Katharine Blake, David Bowie, Cathy Berberian, Patti Smith, Dagmar Krause, Jarboe

Music I like: The Art Bears, Archaia, Muse, The Swans, The Great Society; Dead Can Dance; early-mid period King Crimson; Peter Hammill & Van Der Graaf Generator; Patti Smith; Magma, Pink Floyd; Bauhaus; Siouxsie & The Banshees; Thinking Plague, 5UUs, Fleet Foxes, Amon Duul II, Chris Cutler, Bob Drake, Henry Cow, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Mars Volta, Comus, White Willow, Porcupine Tree, Jon Rose, Present, Univers Zero, Faun Fables, Miranda Sex Garden, Medieval Baebes, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, David Bowie, Yes, Curved Air, Incredible String Band, Donovan, Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, Nico, Hawkwind, Robert Wyatt, Acid Mothers Temple, The Zombies, The Animals, The Pretty Things, plus some avant garde and classical composers (Carl Orff, Hildegard Von Bingen, Wagner, Berio, etc). I also have a fondness for interpretations of Child's Ballads.

Likes: anything velvet, art, apocalyptic day dreams, Halloween, the smell of oranges & burnt matches, boots, books & movies, sloths and other weird animals, Mid-East & Mediterranean food, thunder storms, Autumn, chocolate (Belgian), unique architecture, antiques, pomegranates, ghost stories, sunflowers & gerbera daisies

Hates: cell phones, trends, "reality" TV, Philly cockroaches, and Hollywood remakes of perfectly good foreign films or cult classics

Current Projects: Working on artwork for various art shows in 2011. See my art site's schedule page for upcoming shows.

Photo by David Pym