DATE: 01/09/08
NAME: The High Plane Drifters
NAME: The High Plane Drifters
INSTRUMENT(s):
Timothy James Oxnard - Vocals/Guitar
John Stephenson - Percussion
CURRENT RELEASE:
‘Georgian Ghosts, Archer Street Blues and The Candy Factory’
full length LP
WEBSITE: www.myspace.com/highplanedrifters
1. Biggest Influence(s)?
‘Georgian Ghosts, Archer Street Blues and The Candy Factory’
full length LP
WEBSITE: www.myspace.com/highplanedrifters
1. Biggest Influence(s)?
Tim: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Misunderstood, The Incrediblestring band, George Frederick Handel & Johann Sebastian Bach, Syd Barrett’s Floyd & UK psyche circa 1965-1971, Robert Johnson, My Bloody Valentine, The Monks, Michael Yonkers band, pre 80's world music & Free Jazz.
Wesley: Too many to mention, here’s some Drummers… Spring / Tracey /Roach / Rich / Blakey / Krupa / Chamberlin / Peters / Densmore / Hession / Corsano… fill in the first names yourself!
2. Favourite records/tracks old or new?
2. Favourite records/tracks old or new?
Tim…
The Misunderstood - My Mind
Tomorrow - My White Bicycle
My Bloody Valentine - Feed me with your kiss
Clinic - IPC sub editors dictate our youth
Wesley…
John Cage - 4.33
I’ll leave it at that.
3. What would you be if not a musician?
Tim: It would have to be a toss up between a trampoline tester or an archaeologist
Wesley: An unfulfilled human being, I’d have to be working in Art somehow and someway most probably through Photography.
4. Career high point so far?
Tim: Just being in a good band and being able to play all over the country and record music is a pretty good career highpoint.
Wesley: Pretty much the same, getting played by John Peel was a good moment and memory.
5. Perfect night off?
5. Perfect night off?
Tim: Where do I start?
Wesley: If I’m not playing a gig I’m most happy attending one, good food,good drinks, good laughs.
6. Most recent CD in your CD player?
6. Most recent CD in your CD player?
Tim: Benjamin Wetherill - Laura & The secret museum of mankind -sounds from North Africa 1928 – 1948
Wesley: Michael Rossiter – “My Dearest Dear” and on my turntable Red Allen and His Quartet “Live at The Spruce Inn, Roslyn, N.Y 1965”
7. Favourite book/film?
7. Favourite book/film?
Tim: Favourite books - The Bible and 100 years of solitude by GabrielGarcia Marquez
Tim: Favourite films - Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa or M by Fritz Lang
Asking my favourite book and film is a difficult one indeed, so many, as like favourite records/tracks.
Asking my favourite book and film is a difficult one indeed, so many, as like favourite records/tracks.
Wesley: I enjoy Photography books, Luke Rhinehart’s “Diceman” is a great novel and anything by Murakami particularly "The Wind Up Bird Chronicle", Thich Nhat Hanh for mindfulness and I Ching for resolve and change, Wong Kar Wai make’s brilliant films and so does David Lynch and I am terrible at editing so I can’t really narrow this down.
8. Whiskey - Jack or Jim?
8. Whiskey -
Tim: I am afraid it has to be Teachers, not a great fan of bourbon, jack is a cliché that’s best left avoided, Jim is just rude.
Wesley: Non of the above, what else have you got? Any Lamb’s Navy Rum?
