As a child and adolescent, Frame was inspired by a variety of musical influences, including David Bowie, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes, Brian Eno and Love [REF].
In a 2002 interview, Frame isolated Bowie as a seminal influence, revealing that he would play the song "Space Oddity" to his mother repeatedly: "it has that semi-tone shift which fascinated me .. and it made me feel this yearning.