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Hothouse Flowers is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Nash. Those roots explain a lot about how Hothouse Flowers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Christy Moore, Deacon Blue, The Waterboys, Sinéad O'Connor and The Beautiful South, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into U2, Indigo Girls, Def Leppard, Midnight Oil and Daniel Lanois, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Hothouse Flowers, reaching back through The Rolling Stones and forward to U2. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Hothouse Flowers connections
Hothouse Flowers grew out of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Nash, shares an orbit with Christy Moore, Deacon Blue, The Waterboys and Sinéad O'Connor, went on to shape U2, Indigo Girls, Def Leppard and Midnight Oil. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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