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Faster than a sleeping bullet, more powerful than a ukelele, capable of drinking warm beverages in a single bound: Paddy "Wainscot" Garrigan is a singer, musician, writer and exceedingly amatuerish cyclist. Best known for playing guitar and singing in The Pier Group and The Wierdstring Band (and for doing anything but play guitar in The Wisemen), Paddy has contributed a myriad of instruments to ensembles such as Dan Haywood's New Hawks, Moonstone, The Gokarnas, The Puma Sutras, Colonel Blimp & The Amazing Exploding Bananas, and Sonic Tradition. He also performs as a solo artist, and occasionally as a solo group. Where possible.

Due to an unusual series of operations during the early 1990s, Paddy is in fact half-timbered in the Mock Tudor style. Two thirds of his left hand side (and one third of his right) is covered in faux-wattle & daub. Never one to let adversity stand in his way, 'Wainscot' used his convalescence as the opportunity to acquire new skills, starting by learning to play the spoons and having a feature archway installed. Within years, he was impressing audiences with his mandolin and piano playing, not to mention the delightful conservatory he'd had installed around the back.

Now entering his third decade, Paddy is pleased to show off his virtuosity and manual dexterity on guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, banjo, bazouki, mandolin and what he terms 'other shit'. Recording in his own bedroom (nobody else would let him use theirs), he brings his unique perspective to light on the world through the medium that means so much to him: music.

Paddy Garrigan recently relocated to Colton, near Greenodd in Cumbria. It's extremely windy near my house, within and without.