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Bob Paterson

Booking agency & live music promotions in the UK

About Me

I run a live music booking agency for about 40 bands and singers - most of them being American and Canadian. I'm based in Suffolk, UK and well up for making my work more accessible to more people who appreciate quality and quality live music, hence why I have a 'MySpace'. I'm not necessarily always looking for new acts - just more opportunities and trying to outreach to as many like minded music fans as possible. We're going to start promoting live music in Suffolk again later this year..... watch this space!!! I'll be using this website to promote these gigs and the gigs I arrange as an agent (there is a subtle difference....). In the meantime listen to BP:FM through www.bpa-live.com .....

My Interests

Lucy, windmills, music, radio broadcasting, laughter, cooking, travelling, gardening and growing chillis, brewing, thai and indian curry, fields, sea, photography, cricket (not recently though), swimming, sleeping and snorkeling (but not at the same time).

I'd like to meet:

Good people, great musicians, good promoters, great audiences, generous bar staff, the manager of a local pub, and the owner of a local music venue. Oh yes, and a curry house owner. If anybody knows a windmill that's for sale, let me know!Well, since then I've met great musicians and meeting some good promoters. We're friends with Karen and Ade at The Dove in Ipswich and during the summer met fellow cider drinker Nigel who runs The Emperor on Norwich Road in Ipswich. As far as curry houses are concerned, we well know Briar et al at The Thai Orchid in Kings Lynn and becoming regulars at Baipo and Kwan Thai here in Ipswich. It's working this!!!We're, however, still looking for a good East Anglian venue (or venues) to promote gigs in..... and still toying the idea of one day living in a windmill..... First things first. Finding some good venues here - especially those of a rustic and rural nature...

Music:

All my bands on my roster.... Pink Floyd. Talking Heads, Beatles, Crowded House, Sheryl Crow, Simon and Garfunkel, Supertramp old farts. I love the new albums by Snow Patrol, Ezio, Emmylou & Mark Knopfler, The Yayhoos, Thea Gilmore, Molly Thomas, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings especially...

Movies:

The Holy Grail, Meaning of Life, Life of Brian, Brazil, The Graduate

Television:

Neighbours, Catherine Tate Show, Extras, Little Britain, X Factor, TV dramas....

My Blog

New home for the radio show too....

I am also very very proud to announce that my radio show has a new home. BP:FM can now be found on www.americana-uk.com. With help of Mark Whitfield and Stu Olds I will now be broadcasting a fortnight...
Posted by Bob Paterson on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:36:00 PST

BPA Live tours

EZIO (UK): April 2008 onwards DUO - Acoustic / Folk Rock http://www.bpa-live.com/biogs/bpa_biog_ezio.htmlhttp://www.e zio.co.uk/http://www.myspace.com/eziouk   Thursday 24th April 2008: BRISTOL -...
Posted by Bob Paterson on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:27:00 PST

new BP:FM show online right now...

Hi ya'llA quick note to let you know my new radio show is online. Click here for more... Enjoy.BP:FMEdition 18Kim Richey - I Will Follow [Chinese Boxes, Vanguard Records 2007] Will Kevans - Dialling T...
Posted by Bob Paterson on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:30:00 PST

new BP:FM show online

BP:FM Edition 17 Martin Stephenson and The Daintees - Big Sky New Light [The Boy's Heart, The Barbaraville Label, 2003]The Redlands Palomino Co. - She Is Yours [Take Me Home, Laughing Outlaw Records /...
Posted by Bob Paterson on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:14:00 PST

new BP:FM show online and previous 8 archived

Evening all, A quick note to let you know my new radio show is online, the first show to feature my specially recorded jingle by Winter. Thank you guy!!!! Click http://www.bobpatersonagency.com/bpa_bp...
Posted by Bob Paterson on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:54:00 PST

Festivals that BPA artists are playing this summer + more....

Greetings one and all,Welcome to the monthly BPA-Live newsletter. If you are getting this for the first time - I hope you find it informative.I decided that in this newsletter I was going to focus pur...
Posted by Bob Paterson on Sat, 05 May 2007 02:00:00 PST

New BP:FM show online

A quick note to let you know my new radio show is online. Click here for more. Enjoy.BP:FMEdition 14David Gray - The One I Love [Life In Slow Motion, IHT/Atlantic Records 2005] Hayley Hutchinson - Say...
Posted by Bob Paterson on Sat, 05 May 2007 01:53:00 PST