Performed by...

Paul Russell: Lead Vocals
Dan Fell: Guitars
Mike Wilkinson: Backwards Guitar & Backing Vocals
Iain Thomson: Bass
Scott Cardwell: Drums & Harmonica

Written by Dan Fell
Arranged by The Butterfly Wheels
Produced by Scott Cardwell & Dan Fell

Paradise Square

Performed by...

Paul Russell: Lead Vocals
Dan Fell: Guitars
Mike Wilkinson: Rhythm Guitar & Backing Vocals
Iain Thomson: Bass & Keyboards
Scott Cardwell: Drums

Written by Dan Fell
Arranged by The Butterfly Wheels
Produced by Scott Cardwell & Dan Fell

Accelerate

Performed by...

Paul Russell: Lead Vocals
Dan Fell: Guitars, Keyboards & Backing Vocals
Mike Wilkinson: Lead Guitar & Backing Vocals
Iain Thomson: Bass & Backing Vocals
Scott Cardwell: Drums

Written by Dan Fell
Arranged by The Butterfly Wheels
Produced by Scott Cardwell & Dan Fell

Writing On The Wall

Performed by...

Paul Russell: Lead Vocals
Dan Fell: Guitars
Mike Wilkinson: Rhythm Guitar & Backing Vocals
Iain Thomson: Bass
Scott Cardwell: Drums

Written by Dan Fell
Arranged by The Butterfly Wheels
Produced by Scott Cardwell & Dan Fell

A Life Unexamined

Performed by...

Mike Wilkinson: Lead Vocals
Dan Fell: Guitars, Keyboards & Percussion
Andy Pattinson: Bass
Scott Cardwell: Drums & Backing Vocals

Written by Dan Fell
Arranged by The Butterfly Wheels
Produced by Scott Cardwell & Dan Fell

Blackening The Blues

Performed by...

Mike Wilkinson: Lead Vocals
Dan Fell: Guitars & Keyboards
Andy Pattinson: Bass
Scott Cardwell: Drums & Backing Vocals

Written by Dan Fell
Arranged by The Butterfly Wheels
Produced by Scott Cardwell & Dan Fell

Drug Of Choice

Young Valentine (Sings The Blues)

Mixing dirty 1960's garage band riffs with razor post punk bass lines, the devil may care vocals and a good collection of shoes, the Butterfly Wheels (of whatever vintage) have always played a unique brand of rain soaked northern rock n roll.

The Butterfly Wheels' tastes and influences are pretty chaotic, ranging from the imperial Nick Cave to the elegant Durutti Column, and from elusive blues man Blind Willie McTell to the majestic Velvet Underground. However, whatever the genre and whatever the sound, the band's emphasis has always been on quality and the choicest cuts of vinyl... Over the years the band members might have had varying amounts of wealth, but they have always had impeccable taste! If a song or an artist moves your heart, your mind or your feet then the influence gets thrown into the Yorkshire shaped melting pot and spat out (punk throwback style) as something fresh, contemporary and soulful. It's this mix kaleidoscopic range of influences and magpie like borrowing (a fine Modernist tradition) that has given the Butterfly Wheels their sound – at once familiar and tantalising new. The perfect soundtrack to wildly oscillating times.

The Butterfly Wheels are a shaping shifting collective of northern gentlemen who will debate the merits of Keynesian economics, catch a Mapplethorpe exhibition and then jump on stage with the ramshackle abandon of Shane McGowan playing a Primal Scream covers set. Over the years, the band have sung bittersweet songs of love lost and lust found, social commentaries about smashing the system (and then carefully tidying it up again afterwards), and songs about: drinking, dancing and a quiet night in on the sofa with the partner of your slightly off kilter dreams.

As well as music, they – just like their beatific audience – are interested in: art, cinema, photography, ballet, literature, horse racing, cricket, current affairs, politics and all manner of whatnot – a sort of peoples' band in many ways... but only if you're the kind of people that like The Fall, Andy Warhol, Aldous Huxley, Peaky Blinders and Harrington jackets!

The Butterfly Wheels have been rocking and souling across Yorkshire for more than a decade.  Over that time, they’ve had almost as many line ups as Trigger’s brooms! This website acts as a form of compilation tape and – as with the best mix tapes – it’s been put together by people pretending that they’re cooler than they are in the hope that you fall in love with them.

On behalf of: Dan, Paul, Harry, Jack, Mike, Scott, Iain and Andy… pour yourself a pint of wine, get on your dancing (or bowling) shoes, and enjoy!

The Butterfly Wheels

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