consciousness in its wee river, eyes to the stars, mind in the dreams.

boil me into life

usual death obsession
Recorded live at the concert to launch my debut solo album "Banish Cherish", in the exceptional setting of Arnos Vale Cemetery Chapel.

Dance Describe its Death Forever

Song from Me's 2nd and final album "Fecund Haunts"; this particular track produced by the still-sorely-missed Toby Pascoe.

Hubble

Ditty drawn from recent (14.05.2015) show opening for Spiro, Anvil, Basingstoke.

Forget Set Go

Here's the wee I'm not, wholly performative and preparedless, at Glasto; in the now legendary-lamented Jazz Lounge. My entire show, unedited. Apologies for questionable EVERYTHING...

Live & Spontaneous At Jazz Lounge, Glastonbury Festival

Just One Picture a Day (live and improvised at Arnos Vale Chapel, 18.04.15)

Cabot Circus Vox

Goodbye Steve

Improvised by my then children ('cos they're adults now!) Lorcán & Naoise - and me. "I Wish" is particularly distinguished by being improvised (words and tune!) live to microphone by the eight-year-old Lorcan.

Christmas Song/ I Wish (2002)

Warts'n'some document of my wee show in the Tobacco Factory Bar, Bristol. Thanks to Milli Twell for reproducing so beautifully.

Live and Improvised at Tobacco Factory 25/08/2019

Keeping it UnStraight Since '78!

Hello! I make up songs and music spontaneously, on the spot, unprepared. 

Despite being continuously active in some diverse incarnation of rock music ever since 1978, what I thrive most upon is music and words from one's heart, instantly, undeadened and unrefined.  

That's it. 

Warts, parts, darts, dearly departs and all. I love melodicism and I love atonal surprises. 

I really long to surprise myself, which happens about once every four years. 

I have an exceptional(if dormant) band called Organelles, and will likely strive to upload some music by us, too. I am also one third of Three Cane Whale. www.threecanewhale.com  

Plus: I improvise thematically-sympathetic songs for the rather fine, fab. and acclaimed long-form-interviewing Bristolian kitchen podcast www.bristolkitchenradio.com @kitchenradio.

Finally: I currently compose and perform live music and poetry-settings for Scottish Dance Theatre's touring production of Fleur Darkin's "Innocence", inspired by the life and works of visionary poet and artist William Blake.

I was once in a gloriously failed psychedelic harmonising rock'n'roll band called "me" (yes, really - there were up to 6 of us on stage at one time, so it was not a solo project!). Me released two "underground masterpieces" of albums, as well as a hatful of financially-disastrous e.p.s (lps were less bankrupting); travelled a bit, shared a tiny Bristolian indie label with the legendary Moonflowers (see This is the Kit) and, posthumously, were cited by none other than Radiohead as a key creative influence on their musical origins...

I'll threaten to stick some old Me tracks up too, then.

Thanks for trawling thro' this self-obsessive non-copy. I do hope you like some of what you hear.

Paul.

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