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Paula

About Me

OK-so not strictly a band right at the moment rather a dabbler in friends' projects until I gets myself together to write some new material and catch up with the digital revolution - this is a start!

The tracks featured here will be from my own band Girlboy Girl (bass, vocals) and other bands' tracks to which I have contributed violin and/or vocals. Bands/musicians not listed on the left, which I have worked with, are Beatnik Filmstars (including 2 Peel sessions), Steward, Jez Butler (a track on Songs from the Jet Set). I also co-wrote (with Jez Butler) and recorded the string part on the soundtrack to a 3-minute short film 'The Plot' by Matt Hulse for Mesh/Channel 4.

During the course of my involvement in music I have met some lovely folk, forged some lasting friendships and realised some ambitions. I also misplaced my appendix whilst merchandising for Beatnik Filmstars in Germany, played a benefit gig for a diabetic cat in Portland (USA), met Suzi Quatro coming out of the loos at Radio 6 (Forest Giants session), have tried to nap on various horizontal structures all over Europe and the USA and best of all–John Peel played some songs I wrote in Girlboy Girl on his Radio1 show! Please refer to blog for more info on this and more.
Discography: Girlboy Girl
2003 ‘Forget the Ladder, Climb the Wall’ 14 track CD – Kittridge Records KITT014
1999 ‘Fresco’ 19 track CD – Blackbean and Placenta Tape Club-BBPTC135
1999 ‘Two Halves’ 4 track ep – Skycap-cap005
1998 ‘Veritablement Pop’ 7 track one-sided vinyl ep – Blackbean and Placenta
1997 4 track 7” ep – Orgasm Records-spasm 13

Girlboy Girl also contributed tracks to several compilations / samplers on the following labels etc:

Darla, Kittridge, Mobstar, BBPTC, KFJC, Orange Slices, Cher Doll, Bliss, Breeze, Galaxy Train, Best Kept Secret, Future Radio

Recording for other bands:

Luckwell 'Flavours of The Sea'. Violin and backing vocals on 'Dunno'; violin on 'Saraswati'; backing vocals on 'The Spring Tide'; backing vocals on 'Let's all get Offended'
Forest Giants 'Things We Do When We're Bored' / International Lo-Fi Underground - Woof3: Backing vocals, bit of violin, bit of bass on disc2
Beatnik Filmstars ‘Boss Disque’: violin on ‘Life Amongst the Cowboys’ Merge Records-mrg145
Kyoko ‘Unpure Disco’ Pet Sounds-pet024cd: backing vocals on track 5, violin on track 7
Steward ‘Horselaugh On My Ex’ 555CD20/Steward09: vocals on He Dispenses With Timid Afterthought (track 8)
Songs For The Jet Set 2000SIESTA122: violin on Milky-Willow’s Song (track10)
Forest Giants ‘UFO Stories’ BreakCD005: violin on Peculiar Feeling (track 3)
Forest Giants ‘Welcome to the Mid-West’ Cherryade Records-CHY 004: vocals on The Message (track 6) and Stars (track9); keyboards and vocals on Planes Fly Overhead (track5)
Hewas 3 track 7” single – Cytherea Records-CF080: violin, vocals, melodica

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/11/2006
Band Members: I have been in the following bands: Girlboy Girl (1996-2002) Hewas(2002ish) Kyoko(2000-2002) Forest Giants(2003-2006) Moneyspider (1993-1995)
Influences: ..not necessarily influences but musicians,writers, artists and other stuff I like: Music: Band of Horses, Flight of the Conchords, Velvet Underground, The Pixies, The Raincoats, The Ronnettes, Dusty Springfield, Bob Dylan, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Gillian Welch, Bluegrass, various American folk music, Low, Galaxy 500, Nico, The Carpenters, Francoise Hardy, Sigur Ros, Amiina, Stars, The Beatles, Beachboys, Kirsty MacColl, Throwing Muses, The Breeders, Parachute Men, Yo La Tengo, Pernice Brothers, The Go-Betweens, Crescent, Movietone, Abba (singing along to in car going south on M5), MBV, Eric Bachmann, Crooked Fingers, Dexys Midnight Runners, Human League, Suzy and Maggie Roche, Camera Obscura, Lunchbox, Beatnik Filmstars Writers and Artists: Amy Tan, Maya Angelou, Patrick Heron, Alfred Wallis, Robert Rauschenberg, Janet Frame, Tove Jansson, Aminatta Forna, Marjane Satrapi, Jeffrey Brown, Charles Schultz, John Austin, Basquiat, Mark Rothko, Alice Hoffman, Tracey Emin's drawings, Chimamanda Ngoze Adichie, Einar Mar Gudmundsson, Khaled Hosseini, Andrea Levy, Jung Chang, Ben Okri, Milan Kundera, Other Stuff: water–fresh, salt or volcanic...especially the Atlantic, trees, trying to get birds to visit my garden, cycling, walking (Southwest coast path very little by very little), sea swimming, watching films, apple crumble, Woman's Hour, quietness, soap operas...
Record Label: BBPTC, Kittridge
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Girlboy Girl Video

The video posted here in my profile was made and directed for Girlboy Girl in 1998 by artists John Wood and Paul Harrison at Spike Island, Bristol. It took a day or so to do the drawings then a day to...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:38:00 GMT

Biog part 2: Bristol

Bristol:In 1988 I left Darlington for Bristol and art college where I met other musicians and did a bit of inexpert and badly paid busking. This was soon given up when some Irish guy borrowed my violi...
Posted by on Wed, 17 May 2006 15:20:00 GMT

Biog part 1:Early Years

Early years:Some of my ancestors had a banjo band in Darlington (see pics) and my grandad (who died before I was born) played the violin. I was brought up listening to Suzy Quatro(yes the bass player ...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:57:00 GMT