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About Me

WELCOME to my Myspace which tells you about some of my past and present musical activities. Do get in touch if you wish to hire me or have a project you'd like me to be involved in. Or just to say hi! 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 ambient jazz-rock group LIMBO, performed live. On top of an office block. It should be out and about again this year. 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. Both are due for release this year. For composer Dominik Scherrer 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 the year 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.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/29/2006
Band Website: limbo-music.co.uk
Band Members:
Influences: Folk-rock, Jazz-rock, Space-rock, Country-rock any kind of rock, Country, Jazz, Blues, Trip-hop, Ska. 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 Miltons notorious punk jazz combo BLURT, criss-crossing Europe and North America by train and featuring on half a dozen albums. I also read in N.M.E once that BLURT had played at GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL more times than any other artist except VAN MORRISON. I'm sure it's true. In the late Eighties I was with indie rockers THE WOOD CHILDREN, releasing 2 albums and touring the UK and France. We recently reformed for a series of sucessful gigs. As a member of soulful UK Americana favourites GRAND DRIVE I recorded 4 acclaimed 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 (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 radical physical theatre company EARTHFALL as musican and composer including work on the soundtrack for their 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 (new album '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' for composer DOMINIK SCHERRER and toured Italy and the UK with lounge-rockers COUSTEAU to promote their third album 'Nova Scotia' (ENDEAVOR/UNIVERSAL). Phew.
Record Label: Majors and Indies
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Great pics by Pete

Most of the photos on this site are by Pete Millson. He is a great photographer and his website is excellent and well worth a visit. Go to www.petemillson.com to be thrilled and amazed!
Posted by Paul Wigens on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:53:00 PST

Check out my new tracks

My new tracks are edited highlights of albums and sessions I've played on. If you are roaming around myspace you can hear full length tracks featuring me (!) with Grand Drive, Kathleen Hasgard, Blurt,...
Posted by Paul Wigens on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:30:00 PST