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About Me

Against Theory has come to an end on 17.07.08. Remaining members are now teamed up with a new drummer and working on new material. We have dropped the Against Theory name, cancelled all gigs, dropped all previous material and changed direction and sound. A new name is t.b.c. Expect the unexpected!These are the old demos I did solo on a Yamaha PSR9000 keyboard with a few even older ones that I did on a Roland E- erm,...something. I don't know, I gave I to my brother, ask him.I live in the Lancashire countryside with my wonderful wife Ellie anywhere between 8 - 18 cats, 3 birds, 2 fish and numerous frogs in the pond. Music has always been important to me and influencial in many things I do. I first started playing an instrument when my Mum asked me if I would like to learn how to play the organ. 4 years of lessons and alot of hardwork and I passed my grade 8. I wrote and performed my first song at 16 for my school GCSE music exam. Since that time I've played keys in many bands of many genres. It was doing these demos however, that gave me the confidence to try out as a vocalist for Against Theory. Using a very different vocal style to the one heard here, succesful gigs followed and things were going well. A bump in the road with differences of opinion and Against Theory is no more with the departure of a founding member. We decide to turn this to our advantage and exploit the new creative freedom to it's full potential.Time will tell................

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/14/2006
Band Members: Paul Barlow = Vocals + Keyboards + Programming Chris Hanlon = Guitar + Backing Vocals Phil Williams = Lead Guitar + Sound Mark Taylor = Bass Ste = Drums + Programming
Influences: Depeche Mode, Faith No More, Another Animal, Medication, Godsmack, Danny Elfman, New Wave, The Damned, The Mission, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Paradise Lost, Sisters Of Mercy, NiN, Muse, Gary Numan, Billy Idol, OMD, Genitorturers, Foo Fighters, QOTSA, AiC, Nirvana, The Almighty........a sort of goth grunge thing going on with a light sprinkling of electro.
Sounds Like: T.B.C.
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The end?

Well, the band I so recently joined has come to an end. I've just returned home from rehearsal (SHOULD have been playing a live gig tonight but we won't get into that here) and it's been decided...
Posted by Paul Barlow on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:06:00 PST

Manchester Academy 3 Gig

How do one and all, just a note to say "Git yer asses down to Manchester Academy 3 on the 26.06.08 to see US and some other great bands play!!" Billing is: SEVERED FATE + SNAKES HATE FIRE + AGAI...
Posted by Paul Barlow on Mon, 26 May 2008 01:37:00 PST

The Red Festival

The Red Festival!! Sunday 25th May (Tomorrow) at the Barfly, Liverpool! (Seel Street) 12pm to 11pm - 48 bands over 3 stages! All for a fiver! What ya waiting for, an invitation?!!!!!!!!!!!! (we're on ...
Posted by Paul Barlow on Sat, 24 May 2008 10:18:00 PST

BandSIGN 2008

Well it's nearly here already, my 1st gig with Against Theory and it's a charity rock/metal event that WE'RE organising! An annual event for the band so this is the 2nd (I think) and hopefully m...
Posted by Paul Barlow on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:59:00 PST

Band Audition

Well the audition went very well (those of you paying attention will notice how little time has elapsed between blog postings - I should update these more frequently in future) and we got 2 tracks pre...
Posted by Paul Barlow on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:16:00 PST

Depeche Mode cover

Ok some of you may have noticed I have reposted the Depeche Mode cover, 'Photographic'. I went back to the drawing board with it, extended it, added some 'twiggly' bits and rocked it up a bit mo...
Posted by Paul Barlow on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:12:00 PST

FNM Cover

Ok had the day off work today so decided to dust off the trusty keyboard and do a Faith No More cover (coz I loved 'em ). No laughing at my keyboard trying to make guitar noises though :P
Posted by Paul Barlow on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:21:00 PST

Photos and Artwork

Thanks to Sinistra for her kind permission for me to use her photos and artwork for my music. Find out more about her here... http://www.myspace.com/fiendfatale ...
Posted by Paul Barlow on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:40:00 PST

....and another....

Ok and here's yet another new one. Remember the 80's comedy 'Splash' with Tom Hanks and Darhyl Hannah?(sp?) Well what if, instead of her turning up looking for him years later, he went loo...
Posted by Paul Barlow on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:36:00 PST

and another

Well, another day off and I finally finished another song I did the backing for ages ago. This one is called March Of The Medusa and when I wrote it, I wanted something that had a slightl...
Posted by Paul Barlow on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:40:00 PST