Charles Marlow
Marlow's name may be inspired by the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Conrad's father was a translator of William Shakespeare who doubtless would have known of Marlowe's work as well. Some intertextual interpretations of "Heart of Darkness" have suggested that Marlowe's "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" may have influenced Conrad. Charles Marlow describes a character as a "papier-mache Mephistopheles", a reference to the Faust legend. Marlow's and Kurtz's journey up the Congo River in "Heart of Darkness" also has similarities to another work by Marlowe, "Dido, Queen of Carthage", in which Aeneas is stranded on the shore of Libya and meets the African queen Dido.
Hoodlum Priest (musician)
His initial goal with Hoodlum Priest, one of several musical projects he explored during the 1990s and beyond, was to draw in both film influences on his work—primarily via dialogue but also musically—and hip-hop with a specific goal of recruiting a London-based MC. He was introduced to rapper Paul Sevier, who had previously been known as Junior Gee, (whom had earlier success winning the London Rapping Championships and appeared on a handful of singles throughout 1983 and 1985 ) At a club performance in 1989 and after being offered a contract by ZTT after being featured on the License To Thrill soundtrack, the two worked together up until the album "The Heart of Darkness". But with Sevier's apparent strong Christian background and Thompson's more free-thinking philosophy and darker musical approach eventually led to the MC's departure. During some time after the release of "The Heart of Darkness", ZTT was bought out by Warner Bros, and the album deleted almost immediately upon its release by request of Warner Bros's Legal Department. The band was later dropped by ZTT, due to later having a fallout about refusing to release a controversial song called 'Cop Killer' and being displeased that the label had no idea on how promote the band. Thompson continued on his own, working on various sideprojects and interspersing his background work (occasionally with regular friend/callobrator Cliff Hewitt, a short-lived band called Black Radio and providing music for Television commercial) and continued to release occasional album releases such as 1994's "Beneath the Pavement" (which featured 2 tracks produced by Raymond Watts of KMFDM fame) and 1998's Hoodlum Priest, which featured former Gaye Bykers on Acid frontman and Pigface/Apollo 440 bandmember Mary Byker on vocals. After the release of the self-titled album, the group has been on hiatus. Recently, Derek became a member of Brighton's experimental music collective Spirit of Gravity and was last seen gigging as Komuso, which he described as an improvised unit, which featured guests who were given no information what to play on arrival to the stage. 
He designed the algorithm for the so-called "jazz limiters" used at Brighton's Spirit of Gravity improvised club night. They work in a similar fashion to sound level limiters (i.e. they cut the power to the pa when a threshold is reached) but they respond to the percentage of jazz detected in any performance, switching off the power if the level exceeds 23% jazz.