has led a career as a musician and visual artist, and was also a member of the Television Personalities for many years. Epic Soundtracks died of unknown causes at the age of 38 in 1997, and Nikki Sudden died at the age of 49 in March 2006, in a hotel room in New York City. Influence Swell Maps have been cited as an influence by bands including Dinosaur Jr., R.E.M., Nirvana and Pavement. Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth acknowledged the influence of the Swell Maps in 1981, writing "As soon as that Nikki Sudden guitar comes slicing slabbing and all out fuzzifying off that crackling vinyl groove you know you're gonna rock. It's the best of both whirls: fist-in-the-heart guitar burnin’ rock and ahead-of-its-time songsmith awareness ... The Swell Maps had a lot to do with my upbringing". Scott Kannberg of Pavement said "Swell Maps was a big influence on our early records ... they had these songs they fucked up somehow to make sound really dirty and low frequency, but they had these great songs underneath all this mess". Tim Gane of Stereolab said that when he first bought A Trip to Marineville, "I must have played it a hundred times or more, just to listen to every single second of it". Other notable bands to name them an influence include Cornershop, The Pastels,<ref>Freeman, John. "Stephen McRobbie Of The Pastels' Favourite Albums". The Quietus, 3 June 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2020</ref> and Deerhunter. In 2007, The Guardian wrote that A Trip to Marineville "combined furious punk noise-outs such as HS Art with ambient instrumentals and other experimental interludes such as Gunboats." Discography Studio albumsA Trip to Marineville (July 1979) #10 UK IndieJane From Occupied Europe (1980) #4 UK Indie CompilationsWhatever Happens Next... (1981) #25 UK IndieCollision Time (1981)Train Out of It (Antar 1986) #18 UK IndieCollision Time Revisited (1989)International Rescue (1999)Sweep The Desert (2000)Wastrels and Whippersnappers (2006)Mayday Signals'' (2021) Singles "Read About Seymour" (1977) "Dresden Style" (1978) "Real Shocks" (1979) "Let's Build a Car" (1979) #6 UK Indie References Bibliography External links Swell Maps Complete Discography Nikki Sudden's Homepage Epic Soundtracks' Homepage Jowe Head's Yahoo Group Phones Sportsman Band page Phones Sportsman's 1980 solo single page English punk rock groups English post-punk music groups Alive Naturalsound Records artists Musical groups from Birmingham, West Midlands Secretly Canadian artists