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Paul

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About Me

I'm a weird mix of bone idle and obsessive workaholic. My career tells the story. I've been a journalist, a record company a&r man, a record producer, a songwriter, a magazine publisher. These days I'm building a website (big secret), buying and selling guitars and investing in property. In other words, I need to be doing stuff, and I need to be passionate about it. Otherwise I just fester. I avoid psychoanalysis in case it breaks the spell and I end up working 9 to 5 and then going down the pub. My idea of hell is what other people call "Happy".

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

At the moment I'd like to meet Cat Power and take hold of her career! I went to see her in Camden this year and it was very upsetting. Overpowered by the band, and lost in the mix, all the subtlety and vulnerabity that we love her for was gone. Her last album, The Greatest, was also awash in an unnecessary level of reverb. It's like she's so insecure and lacking in confidence that she's happy to hide behind someone else's idea of how she should sound. I first saw her on Jools Holland's Later, where her vocals, unadorned, just flipped my heart. I'm sure that that one appearance and the excellent songs on The Greatest put her in what looked like pole position to take off this year. But after Camden, if someone doesn't get a grip, I fear she could disappear.

My Blog

Save The Humans

The thing that gets me about this whole "Save The Planet" thing is the arrogance and hypocrisy of it. We don't have to save the planet. The planet will save itself. If there's an argument to be had, i...
Posted by on Thu, 24 May 2007 02:55:00 GMT