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Paperadio

About Me


New Music Video - 'Long Narrow Road'
A portrait of the artists as a young band.

Paperadio wakes up in small town Australia. Brothers Ben and Ian Hutton go to school with Joel Duncombe in a black dusted mining town called Newcastle. They play in bands - some good, some terrible. They jump off Patterson Bridge, surf Newie beach, take girlfriends to Seal Rocks, do east coast trips with the boys, write songs and start a band together. Then Rob Scott of radio station JJJ tells them a management company in London wants to sign ‘em up. So they pack their bags and guitars and take their first flight out of Australia.

London 2003 is dark, cold and council housing grim. The mould in the bedroom walls and the sofas with no seats are no deterrant to music – the boys play some gigs, record some songs with producer Andy Bradfield and wait for the summer to come round.

It’s a long and frustrating wait. They finally realise there is no such thing as summer in London. So they change their tune, reform the band and write an album. An album wth astoundingly mature songs that reference INXS, Springsteen and U2. It’s an album weighted with Tim Winton’s writing and Ray Lawrence’s filmmaking. An Australian album with a London scarf.

Oz: Summer. Salted hair. Conversations in the heat. Sweating tinnies.

UK: Camden. Dark at 4pm. Black jeans. The BBC not the ABC.

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Member Since: 8/18/2005
Band Website: www.paperadio.com
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My Blog

Special Novella" buy for USA and CANADA

Hi guys, we have added another option to buy the album "Novella" if you live in the states or in Canada. This option reflects more accurately the price of CD's in those countries. So why don't you g...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:55:00 GMT

New York, New York

So we're off to New York...We might have some Kwofee if we're lucky a long island ice tea, drop a nickel off that big sky scraper they have (what is it called again?) and shoot a rad video. Actually,...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:21:00 GMT

The Borderline Sold Out

Thanks to all who came to the sold out Borderline album launch. I can say personally that it was my favourite of all the gigs I've ever played in london. 309 people, great bands and a new CD. It wa...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:10:00 GMT

New Album Out In 4 Days

Ok, so there is only 4 days to go until we launch our debut album. It's an exciting time.We have some album tracks up on myspace now so have a listen and admire our handiworkAlso look across at the f...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:34:00 GMT

Week 3 - Singing and guitaring

Watching floodwater recede is a lot like watching grass grow, except that it is actually a little exciting. I expected the water to be gone in a matter of hours when in fact it took about 3 days. Th...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:42:00 GMT

Week 2 - Wet guitars (floods etc)

Listening to the radio as half the studio is flooded and Paperadio are camped out upstairs in our B&B, a woman is talking about the pets she has lost to the floods, these include:- Rabbits- Guinea Pig...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:21:00 GMT

Week 1 - Studio blog

Week 1 - Chapel lane studios. Sam Gibson engineering* About 2 days of preproduction went well. no major dramas except for Dan P getting an electric shock through the Fender jazz. its a powerful bas...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:05:00 GMT

New Tracks!!!!!!

Well Hello Friends, Just thought i would catch up with you you and tell you whats going down... We have added a couple of new songs to the page, and see what you guys think.. We have written around 20...
Posted by on Sat, 26 May 2007 11:06:00 GMT

Writing and writing and writing and writing and writing.

Hi guys, It's been a while but we've all had a great holiday in Aus and are back in London writing and recording and writing and recording. We going to put together 15-20 songs for our time with Sam...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:01:00 GMT

PAPERADIO SIGN CONTRACT WITH MANAGER

Joyous news. Paperadio have finally put pen to paper and signed onto 'Raw World' a management/marketing company run by Jonny Dawes. We're all very excited about the relationship and how it will help...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:43:00 GMT