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Royal Blood, has profoundly influenced my musical taste with their distinctive sound, driven by just bass guitar and drums. Frontman Mike Kerr specialises in using guitar pedals to create rich, guitar like tones through his bass guitar, whilst Ben Thatcher's hard-hitting approach to his drumming adds relentless energy. Their focus on riffs and rhythm has taught me that less can be more in songwriting.

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Tame Impala, driven by Kevin Parker's visionary songwriting, has a profound influence on me as a solo artist. His work inspires me to create complete records independently and experiment with various musical technologies. As someone who primarily plays guitar, I find Tame Impala's psychedelic indie pop-rock sound encourages me to blend genres and explore new creative avenues. Their music motivates me to push the boundaries of my artistry and fully embrace my creative vision.

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Air inspired Tame Impala by encouraging Parker to experiment with synthesisers, helping him shift his focus away from solely relying on guitar driven songwriting. He shares more about this in his interview with Synth History. "I always just appreciated Air for having all these amazingly lush sounds. I guess, as me being a sort of young, ignorant stoner-rocker, I never really associated synths with “lush”. That kind of changed it for me." (Danz, 2023)

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In the Spotify podcast "Who Is Daniel Johns," Kevin Parker of Tame Impala shares with Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns how the albums "Freak Show" and "Neon Ballroom" inspired him to learn guitar. “The way I got into guitar was looking up “Freak Show” tabs on the internet. Parker further elaborates, “Neon Ballroom too. Learning guitar to those songs really opened up what I thought was possible with playing guitar.” (Daniel Talks to Kevin Parker, 2021)

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Royal Blood frontman Mike Kerr discusses how he draws inspiration from Jack White of The White Stripes. He highlights how White's guitar playing and distinctive tones have profoundly influenced his own style in an interview with Guitar World. “When he plays guitar it sounds like he’s so pumped to be playing. It’s so inspiring." Kerr continues, "He’s also very interesting tonally. There’s a lot of interesting fuzz sounds, which has become a big part of my musical DNA." (Sharma, 2024)

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At an “early age,” Mike Kerr from Royal Blood “studied” Daft Punk records to learn how to play keyboard, captivated by how they “blurred the lines between sounds like making keyboards sound like guitars.” In an interview with Loudwire, Kerr explains how “important” this was to him as he began Royal Blood by making his “bass sound like a guitar.” For this reason, Daft Punk is “so influential” to him in “so many ways.” (chadchilders, 2021)

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Tame Impala's Kevin Parker discusses with "NME" how his older "brother had a cassette of the song ‘Smooth Criminal’ by Michael Jackson" and how he was was "showing it off" to him when Parker was a child. Parker elaborates saying

"It had a pretty lasting impact on me – I got so obsessed that I used to walk around my school with my cardigan around my elbows, pretending I was Michael Jackson." (Cooper, 2015)

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In an interview with "NME" Mike Kerr from Royal Blood discusses touring with the band "Muse". He explains how Muse has inspired him to take care of his health whilst on tour and not to get too engulfed in the "rock'n'roll lifestyle"

"They’re like athletes and they play like it. For me that’s quite inspiring in that the main way I’d always toured was not looking after my body or my mind while destroying myself for the sake of what I thought was a rock’n’roll lifestyle".

He further elaborates saying that "Muse's first three records are part of our DNA". (Trendell, 2023)