By day, Paul is an award winning graphic designer for the live comedy industry. He used to love composing music back in the late-1990s/early 2000s, but never attempted to release any of it, for reasons known only to himself. He stopped composing when his design career started to take shape.

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That was until the Coronavirus pandemic shut down all live entertainment in 2020, Paul had no design work to do all of a sudden. So instead of being sensible and getting a real job, he dug out his old music software and started spending a decent amount of time composing, for the first time in a decade or so.

A few weeks later, he realised he might have enough decent tracks to self-release an EP. A few weeks later still, he had written a full album and had it post-produced by his old friend Darryl Elkins (aka Lym/Tarsiform). Upon playing the album to Rich Wilkes (aka Myoptik), Rich was instantly very keen to release it on his Pingdiscs label. And so he did, on 5 May 2021.

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That debut album 'Part Idiot' was surprisingly well-received, being nominated for a national award and appearing in several 'Best Albums of 2021' lists. How lovely...

 

When the world opened up again, Paul suddenly didn't have quite as much time to devote to making music, but still continued releasing a new track every now and then on compilation albums for various record labels (including Touched Music, Pingdiscs, Fourier Transform, Xephem, MightyPing, Section 27 (plus two 'God Is In The TV' charity albums, covering REM and The Cure respectively!). He's also been asked to produce mixes for several online radio shows, and a few remixes for other artists. He's also ended up making music for a few comedy shows, podcasts and films, and designing lots of album artwork for the Pingdiscs and Touched Music labels.

 

The follow-up to Part Idiot took a long time to come about - the epitome of the 'difficult second album'. After many rewrites, rethinks and delays caused by work and family commitments, his second album ARTWROK is finally being released by Touched Music on 30th January 2026, fulfilling a lifelong dream of becoming labelmates with the likes of FSOL, Plaid, Autechre etc whom he worshipped in the 90s, as well as a frankly ridiculous roster of current electronic talent.

 

He has already mostly written his third album - let's hope it doesn't take five more years to release this one...