I just love to play those drums.
SOME DRUMMERS - Keith Moon, Levon Helm, Al Jackson, Simon Kirke, Ed Blackwell,
Budgie, Ringo, Bill Ward, Buddy Miles, Elvin Jones, John Bonham, Art Blakey, Steve Jansen, Bill Bruford, Clifford Jarvis, Tony Allen, Idris Mohammed, The Big Figure, Pete De Freitas.
Sounds Like
I HAVE HAD A VARIED CAREER of recording and international touring. I was a member of Ted Milton's legendary punk jazz combo BLURT, criss-crossing Europe and North America by train and featuring on half a dozen albums. In the late Eighties I was with cult indie rockers THE WOOD CHILDREN, releasing 2 albums and touring the UK and France. We reformed in 2005 for a series of sucessful gigs. As a member of soulful UK Americana favourites GRAND DRIVE I recorded 4 albums for LOOSE and SONY/BMG, working with producers PETE HOFFMAN, JERRY BOYS (Buena Vista Social Club), JIM CREGAN (Cockney Rebel/Rod Stewart) and MALCOLM BURN (Bob Dylan/Emmylou Harris/Iggy Pop/Patti Smith) as well as tours of the U.S, Scandinavia and the UK. In the mid nineties I studied with American jazz drummer CLIFFORD JARVIS (Sun Ra/Archie Shepp/Pharoah Saunders). I worked on several shows with physical theatre company EARTHFALL as musican and composer including work on the soundtrack for their BAFTA award winning film 'Too Old to Dream'. As a composer, I have written for Caminhos/Welsh Independent Dance and short film 'Hammerman' (dir. Andy Shelley). Other collaborations/sessions/gigs include THE BLUE AEROPLANES ('Cavaliers' (Artstar) 'Altitude' (Harvest/EMI) ), Augustine, Patrick Duff, Strangelove, Witness, Suzy Hug, Taxi Val Mentek, Invisible Pair of Hands, Lol Coxhill, Canton Opera and free-rock guitarist Jean Francois Pauvros. In 2005 I released an album of improvisations with folk guitarist IAN KEAREY (ex Oyster Band) which got a rave review from SHIRLEY COLLINS in FOLK ROOTS and airplay on BBC RADIO 3's LATE JUNCTION. I also played on the soundtrack for ITV series 'Jerico' (starring Robert Lindsay) for composer DOMINIK SCHERRER and toured Italy and the UK with lounge-rockers COUSTEAU to promote their third album 'Nova Scotia' (ENDEAVOR/UNIVERSAL). 2006 was pretty hectic with a healthy mix of recording, gigs and touring, film and T.V. sessions as well as MDing and co-composing for theatre and dance. In the summer and early autumn I was working on BIG HANDS, a 'theatre noir' piece written and performed by writer/actor/raconteur GERALD TYLER. It's great. The music is by my ambient jazz-rock group LIMBO, performed live. On top of an office block. We re-mounted it in 2007, this time in a warehouse so Gerald could arrive at the start of the show in his car. The Guardian gave us a five star review. With BAKKUS, a collaboration between EARTHFALL and Polish theatre/vocal group CHOREA. I co-directed and composed the music with trumpeter ROGER MILLS and the show toured Poland and Wales. Working with producer/multi-instumentalist SIMON ALPIN is always a pleasure and we did a couple of album projects in 2006. One was for singer-songwriter GARRON FRITH and the other for U.K based U.S. singer and songwriter KATHLEEN HASKARD, co-produced by CHUCK PROPHET. Back with Dominik Scherrer again, I played on the soundtrack of the film SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE starring EWAN MACGREGOR. It's an entertaining film with a lot of 'name' brit actors like Catherine Tate and Tom Hardy and some pretty groovy music. Worth a look. My most unusual gig of 2006 was performing under the Cumberland Basin swing bridge in Bristol docks in the freezing cold. The project was called TRIANGULATION, a music/film/poetry extravaganza created as part of the BRUNEL200 festival. The very beautiful music was composed by trumpeter PETE JUDGE who I also had the pleasure of performing with in THE BLESSING.
WELCOME to my Myspace which tells you about some of my past and present musical activities. Currently, I am musical director for Year of the Bear theatre company, with two show in the works for 2009. I also have a new project called Eyebrow with trumpeter Pete Judge (Get the Blessing). In the past few months I have worked with Natacha Atlas, Viv Albertine (The Slits), Damo Suzuki (Can) and Get The Blessing. For more detailed biographical information allow your eyes to drift unsuspectingly to the left.....
hey paulo, good to see yas again,keep in touch dude, r u gonna be in db next week or did u get it all done? i'm probably sending this to the wrong bit, this is a chat rather than a comment, put me right about where to send stuff.i'm pretty computer-ignorant but i'm trying not to be. r u musicking all the time or do u have to work as well,uurrgghh. i busk a bit but u dont get a lot these days.lotza nice comments,not much dosh.coupla weird solo things tho,gigs i mean,ones at the subs end of nov its a william blake poetrything.i'm a background noise intro & interval jangler,but its the bandracket i love most,letting rip,uknowaddimean.sorry man,i'm rambling,let me know if theres a better place to send this deeply personal raving,cheers darling,love mac.xxx
Hey Paul....how are your Eyebrows? Please see my BLOG link for...Cheers, Susie. Preview song from 'Tucson Moonshine' album, produced by JD Foster & feat. Calexico members Joey Burns, John Convertino & Jacob Valenzuela plus Nick Luca. Photos by Susie Hug. Photos of Susie Hug by Joey Burns. Recorded at Wavelab Studio in Tucson, Arizona. Engineered by Chris Schultz & Mixed by Craig Schumacher [who also played harmonica].
Hey Paul, perhaps you'll be around - we're playing on Friday at Club Integral, Brixton, "London's premier venue for the uncategorisable". It'll be a fun night with all sorts of acts and we're premiering our new show with scary knitdresses, malfunctioning televisions, sexy guitarists and more!
Friday 30th May. 9pm Club Integral, Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, London SW9, 2 mins from Brixton tube. £5/7
This Wednesday 23rd April Fuzz Against Junk are playing the Fleece & Firkin in Bristol as part of the HUMUNGUS event that is the Bristol SouthWest Sound Festival. For £6 you get a wristband so you can dilly dally around this fair city watching as many bands as you like at various venues about the place. Of course, the only place YOU WILL WANT TO BE that evening is to watch us! We hope to see you there brethren!!!
Hello Friends. Fuzz Against Junk have a new album coming out! It's titled "Netti Netti" and is released by INVADA RECORDS on Monday Febuary 4th through Cargo Records Distribution. It's a mindblast of an album, so do us a favour, don't download it illegally, order it from your friendly local record store or visit www.invadashop.co.uk and buy online. Have a musical new year and KEEP THE PSYCH ALIVE!!! Love Fuzz Against Junk x
