Paul Gilbody's organic blend of Acoustic Groove and Neo-Mellow regularly draws comparisons to the likes of Seal, Sting and Jason Mraz.
The UK-based artist’s passion is to constantly learn and grow, while inspiring others to realise their true potential through feel-good, empowering songs.

A gifted singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and highly sought after session player, Gilbody has recorded and featured on numerous albums and performed around the world, including European tours with KT Tunstall and opening for the legendary Tom Jones. 

Paul’s solo career has also seen him perform globally, including regular appearances at Folk Alliance International and the renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival to 5 star reviews. New York magazine, Broadway Baby, describes him as ‘alternative rock/folk that divulges into jazz and funk...genuine and heartfelt with a rustic charm...Paul Gilbody is dynamic whilst graceful’.

His debut EP ‘Eponymoose’ quickly sold out at live shows, and the follow-up ‘Ricochet’ garnered airplay on BBC Radio Scotland.  2020’s ‘Boomerang’ was the first of a series of planned singles that lead to the eagerly anticipated 2021 release of his debut album ‘Untwined’ which is produced by the legendary John Wood (Nick Drake, John Martin, Pink Floyd). 
It was Paul’s authentic talent that encouraged Wood to produce the album, reminiscent of the artists he’d worked with through the years. Recorded live in Glasgow’s prestigious Gorbals Sound studio, with an outstanding 7 piece band and string quintet, ‘Untwined’ is a heartfelt call to life and never giving up on your dreams.

Hoochie Fig is an Edinburgh based musical partnership made up of Keith J Paton and Tim E Riley. The foundation of their music is acoustic guitars and vocal harmony but arrangement around these fundamental folk-rock roots can take their songs far from that musical bag into rock, dub and at times into the experimental.

The Fig's latest album, Trouble at the Rubber Plant, saw its digital release in April 2011.


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Eternal Return Again = an occasional ambient mix that goes up here

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2025
09/05 Soft Hell post Good Sad Happy Bad @ TLF
10/05 Star & Shadow Cinema
27/06 Lubber Kitchen/Slack's opening party
26/09 Taxman Returneth @ TLF
06/12 w/John T Gast, 7asassiyeh & Gumukki @ TLF

2024
17/05 S&S Late Shows
25/05 The Lubber Fiend NCL w/Beau Wanzer
22/06 S&S Midsummer Party (The Thin Boys)
14/09 S&S End Of Summer Party
11/10 Lubber Fiend Soft Hell (nat & andy)
20/12 mike and andy Lubber Fiend soft xmas hell
31/12 mfv genesis tanners arms nye

2023
28/10 Noods Vs Slack's Halloween Party w/Gumukki, Yokel, Kinlaw & Franco Franco @ TLF
19/08 Fellfoot Sounds, Into The Woods (extended ambient set if u can believe that)

2022
10/09 Obey The Time @ Star & Shadow NCL
16/04 Pasqua! @ Star & Shadow NCL

2020-21 
50 million radio shows

2013-2019
variouscan'tremember
toph/s&s/whq/nye/a wedding/culture lab/etc

I did make two radio shows when I was ten also

Dick E Dastardly - self-penned and self-recorded tunes from over many years. Some folky, ambient, electronica, psyche and some clunky punky and badly recorded nonsense!

Songwriter, Guitarist, Vocalist, Bassist, Keyboard Player, Trumpet Player, Producer, Programmer, Studio Owner, Founder and CEO - Great British Records (GBR). Guitar / Vocals / Songwriting - 'DangerWoman3 (DW3)', 'Bliss:Remember', Professional Marketer and Copywriter.

Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, producer, half of Hoochie Fig.

I've been writing, performing and recording music since the early 1990's, though since 2000, most of my work has been as Hoochie Fig, with creative partner Keith Paton (Hoochie Fig has its own Soundcloud profile -see the links above).

This space is for my solo projects, which don't fit into the Hoochie Fig bag; and for my pre-Fig music, which I am currently digitizing and  re-mastering from multitrack analogue tape.

So, they'll be some odds and sods appearing here, some of it pretty lo-fi. Hopefully though, it'll all be entertaining for one reason or another!

Tim






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