My main love in the world, above all the amazing things there are out there, is my beautiful wife Sarah who I married in September 2007, and live with in Armley, Leeds. I've been with her since mid-2003 and love her to bits and always will.
Me
Paul Priest, Paulie P, Priesty, Owl, Paulrawnerve. Born: 31st December 1976 in Leeds. Schools: Grimes Dyke Primary School, John Smeaton Middle, High & 6th Form, briefly Leeds College of Art and Design Work: East Leeds Snooker Centre, Northern Snooker Centre, Auto Trader, Yorkshire Post. Tons of other jobs through agencies and part-time Hangouts and haunts over the years: Pig n Whistle (now Fab), The Fenton, The Packhorse, The Library, Joseph's Well, The Met, The Uni, Dry Dock, Phono, Subculture / Bassment Likes: MOSH! FAST! CHUG! SMASH! Peanut Butter Alcohol. Obscene Extreme festival (been 2004-2008, played 2008) Czech Republic Keeping a tidy house Travelling
Photoshop
Soundforge
Tea and Toast on a morning
Pasties and fizzy pop when hungover
Band practices
Tiramisu
Chinese Buffet
Crackers with cheese
Pool
Friends
Shouting abuse at people who can take it and know it's a joke
Other Stuff:-
Between 1991 and 2002 I won 20 snooker trophies, including the Leeds City Championships.
Highest break is 136.
I've hardly played since 2003.
I DJ'd and ran the Raw Nerve club for about 6 years
Put on loads of gigs over the years
Currently DJ at Devastator
Music
Into all kinds of music styles:- DEATH (Necrophagist, Gorguts, Suffocation, Devourment, Ingested) GRIND (Discordance Axis, Mincing Fury, Yacopsae, Jig-ai) BLACK (Emperor, Belenos, Gorgoroth, Enslaved, Windir, Darkthrone) TECH (Meshuggah, Beneath The Massacre, Behold...the Arctopus, Coalesce, Executive Distraction Tasks, Creation is Crucifixion) FAST/CORE (Keitzer, Catharsis, Morser, His Hero Is Gone) MOSH (The Red Chord, Ion Dissonance, Suicide Silence, Morning Again, My Cross To Bare) SLOW (Grief, Corrupted, Goatsnake, Lazarus Blackstar) AMBIENT/ELECTRO (Aphex Twin, Orbital, Autechre, Venetian Snares, The Orb, Radio Massacre International) CLASSICAL (Shostakovich, Liszt, Glass, Nymen) PROG (King Crimson, Camel, Electric Mud Generator) WEIRD (The Jesus Lizard, Primus, Trumans Water, Rolo Tomassi, a.P.A.t.T.)
Movies
Favourite films:- Seven, Reservoir Dogs, Yellow Submarine, Leon, Great Escape, Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
Television
Not an avid fan. Boxsets win though. Best stuff:- The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Black Books, Big Train, Jam, House.
Books
Not a big reader, but love 1984 by George Orwell, The Diceman by Luke Reinhardt. Comics:- Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, Lenore, JTHM Mags:- Terrorizer, Zero Tolerance Art: David Ho, Escher and Roman Dirge!
This is me playing bass with RETH at the recent OBSCENE EXTREME FESTIVAL in the Czech Republic (July 12th, 2008!)
Bands/Music Projects:- BATHROOM CITY (bass) - 1993/1994 - 2 gigs. Rough demo tape. DIMITRODAK (bass) - 1997 - 1 gig. CANVAS (sounds and samples) - 1997/1998 - Played 20 gigs (one UK tour, one European jaunt, took in Holland, Belgium, London a few times), recorded tracks that were on their self-titled early discography album on Household Name Records, and the 3 songs that went on the split with Hard To Swallow on Contrition Records. Played with the likes of Culture, Arkangel, Catharsis and more. EYE OF PHETKANHA (Electronica) - 1999-2001 - One half of ambient duo. One album, had 10,000 plays on old incarnation of MP3.com, song featured on slasher movie 'Jigsaw'. TANGAROA (bass) - 1999-2003 - 80 gigs (inc. Chuck Schuldiner of Death tribute all dayer at Bradford Rios, the Revolt festival in Dundee, supports to Mastodon, Everytime I Die and many more). 2 CDs. NARCOSIS (bass) - 2002-2003 - 90 gigs all over Europe (3 weeks in Europe taking in Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Austria & Czech Republic, 4 dates in Ireland, tour of Holland, all over the UK). 2 Recordings. RETH (bass) - 2005-present day - 70 gigs (up to July 2008) inc. supports to Cephalic Carnage, Melt Banana/Khanate, The Berzerker, Genghis Tron (3 times), Mincing Fury (London), Suicide Silence, Napalm Death, Brutal Truth and The Red Chord (in London). Played OBSCENE EXTREME FESTIVAL in Czech. Ireland Tour. 1 Recording so far. Signed to Anticulture. INCANDESCENCE (Programming/Bass/Remixing) - 2003-present day - Project in a coma at the moment. So far self-released 11 albums all available to download for free from the Myspace page.. CEREBRAL CONSTRICTION (Programming) - 2006-present day - Project in a coma at the moment. Full on harsh noise. 1 CD released. Loads more bits done. FUCKING HOSTEL (Acoustic Stupidity) - July 2006 - Drunken dictaphone fun live in Czech Republic. 1 CD of 3 remixes. SLAM (Bass) - July 2007 - Me and Rob from Executive Distraction Tasks. SOLITARY MASS (Bass) - June 2008 - Filled in for one gig.
MY MUSICAL DISCOGRAPHY
Bathroom City - Blue Tits & Warblers
Canvas - Self Titled Discography Album
Canvas / Hard To Swallow Split
Eye Of Phetkanha - In The Light I Become
Tangaroa - Ever fucked a black metal whore EP
Tangaroa - Self Titled EP
Narcosis / Swaaarrrmmm Split EP
Narcosis - Heart Slows Down (CD Version, the live set)
Incandescence - Chapter One, The Second Phase
Incandescence - Chapter Two, The Replacement Phase
Incandescence - All sound is Synthetic
Incandescence - Sleep Deprivation, Disassociation and other Forms of Altered Mental Health
Incandescence - The Loneliest Moments of my Entire Life
Incandescence - All around us were the remains of the buildings we shared our emotions in
Incandescence - The floating spirits of the desert
Cerebral Constriction - How my mind played its tricks on me today
Fucking Hostel - Playing pissed with spoons and mints
Reth - Discography 2003-2007
Incandescence - Interpretations Vol. 1 - The remixing album
Reth - Precursors to Extinction
Incandescence - Scattered Journeys of the Resurrection
Incandescence - Purging Darkness from thine own Bones
Incandescence - Tying up loose ends - Extras EP
Who I'd like to meet: If I don't know who you are, or if I don't really like the band, then I won't add you.
For general adds, please go to the Raw Nerve myspace.
E-MAIL: paulrawnerve@ntlworld.com.. say hello. Ah go on!
9th - 7.30pm-10.30pm £3 - Acoustic Jiggery Folkery Pt. 2 John Yates Eats His Own Head, Michael Caley, Liz Reynolds, Matthew Childs
16th - 7.30pm-10. 30pm £4 - Electro / Indie night w/ free entry into Gigantic until 3am I Call Shotgun, Castrovalva, Japanese Fighting Fish, The Spires
23rd - 7.30pm-10. 30pm £5 - Moshcore Battering! Ignominious Incarceration, When All Else Fails, Sequence of Malice, Propermassivecyclops
29th - 7.30pm-10. 30pm £3 - Heavy Metal Party Riot! Hospital Of Death, Dreamcatcher, Hamerex
30th - 7.30pm-10.30pm £3 - Quality riffage and fastness abound.
The Afternoon Gentlemen, Black Fang, Manuscripts, More Than A Joke
OVERMARS - Epic, atmospheric post doom, from France, think Neurosis and Godflesh meets His Hero Is Gone with a hint of Swans and Black Metal influences. With live projections.
MANATEES - Psychedelic sludge/post metal heaviness, Carlisle.
Im off tu Greece on friday to play with Human Rejection and some terrible bunch of Hagis eating, Iron brew swilling Kilt lifters. Are you still working silly hour weeks at work.
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Go to our Myspace page to check out all the bands on the line-up..
Tickets are available in Hot Rats Sunderland & Beatdown Records Newcastle @ £15.50 Advance!!
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