Under The Influence

Producer and XL Recordings big chief Richard Russell shares a few of the influences that have shaped his life

The man behind the mega hit ‘Killer’, Adamski talks LEGO, lederhosen and Lee “Scratch” Perry

Graham Fellows, the man behind Jilted John and John Shuttleworth, talks us through his formative influences

BBC broadcaster and one half of UNE with remixer and DJ Paul Langley, Mark Radcliffe talks us through his formative influences

The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon discusses some of the influences that have shaped him and his spiffing and surprisingly synth-heavy album ‘Office Politics’

Lancashire electropopper Victoria Hesketh explains how grit, glamour and Joe Goddard helped her to take control of her multi-faceted creation, Little Boots

Jenny Hval talks us through her formative influences, taking in 90s dance, death metal, John Carpenter and flying synth sounds along the way 

The Flaming Lips’ dreamer-in-chief Wayne Coyne serves up his formative influences, which take in painters going punk, communal rainbows and the power of wigging out

The Grid and Beyond The Wizards Sleeve’s Richard Norris explains how forests, psychedelia and John Waters films inspired his mind-expanding visions

Former Thompson Twin and now solo artiste Tom Bailey reveals some of the people, places and ideas that have bewitched his psyche