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Paul Gilbody

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Paul Gilbody
Currently based in Edinburgh having moved there in '92 from my home city of Belfast (after discovering the bars were open until 4am), I've been active in the Scottish music scene since then.
With an inability to say 'no' to musical opportunities, I've found myself playing most styles of music from jazz to thrash and dabbling with most instruments. As a result I've gained a wealth of inspiration and a respect for musicianship of all cultures.
Career highlights to date include appearing on Channel 4's James Whale Show as electric bassist of Belfast band X-Presidents, performing at the legendary Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London with my groove trio Gecko 3 , a televised solo acoustic gig in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens, doing 18 Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows (on double bass) with incredible songstress Rosie Brown , playing Djembe in the sell-out African Gumboot Dance Fringe show "A Good Hard Slap!" and a series of acoustic duet or 3-piece gigs as double bassist for the amazing KT Tunstall . In 2005 I was honoured to be invited to sing backing vocals on KT's debut album "Eye to the Telescope" - so you could say I've sold over 4 million albums! ; )
Right now I'm concentrating on my solo material as well as playing internationally with Marty Philip and Hugh Martin as Gecko 3 . I'm also working with gorgeous vocalist Tracey Braithwaite and I gig regularly (dbl bass) with acclaimed singer/songwriter Andi Neate .
On the 1st tuesday of every month I co-organise and run an acoustic music club called Acoustic Edinburgh with DJ Simon Kirby, which constantly inspires and amazes by the vast stream of high quality original music that is undeservedly so often under-exposed.
I make time to do bits of live and studio session work and recently have worked with Found , The Graeme Mearns Band , Vicky Gray , Douglas Kay , Alan Davison , Keith Paton and Hoochie Fig , Ken Barrett , Super8 and TokyoBlu .

I'm also a singer / beatboxer for Tracey B's Gospel Truth Choir

2009 sees the release of 5 studio albums I've been involved with ( Gecko3 , Andi Neate , Vicky Gray , Douglas Kay and I'll finally be completing my debut solo album.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/03/2006
Band Website: http://www.paulgilbody.com
Band Members: Just me and my guitar, sometimes a loop pedal and a bag of nuts - but occasionally I perform with stunning vocalist Tracey Braithwaite , percussionista extraordinaire Mat Clements , legendary fiddlestress Vicky Gray and Jugal Bandi maestro Udit Duseja.
Influences: Jimi Hendrix
Prince
Gil Scott-Heron
Incubus
Bob Marley
Stevie Wonder
Lenny Kravitz
Bill Withers
Donny Hathaway
John Martyn
Avishai Cohen
Ron Carter
Free
G-Love & Special Sauce
The Police
Santana
Skunkhour
Living Colour
Ray La Montagne
KT Tunstall
RATM
Spin Doctors
Reef
Getz/Gilberto
Buena Vista artists
James Brown
Erykah Badu
Cassandra Wilson
Chet Baker
Led Zeppelin
Jeff Buckley
Pearl Jam
Bobby McFerrin
Cinematic Orchestra
George Clinton et al.
Jack Johnson
Nick Drake
Soundgarden
Elvis Presley
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Buddy Holly
BB King
Santana
Snowboy
Greyboy
Bob Dylan
Curtis Mayfield
Jaco Pastorius
Thin Lizzy
Aretha Franklin
Janis Joplin
(right off the top of my head... and all my talented mates in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, London, Paris, NYC and Melbourne)
Sounds Like: "Paul‘s musical talent and diverse vocal range shone through as he made his way through a mesmerizing set of his own funky acoustic songs. As one of the stand out acts from the night Paul wowed the crowd with some impressive guitar work and extraordinary looping techniques, at some points you could have been forgiven for thinking there was a whole band on stage!" www.fondoo.eu

“…sumptuous playing…” Evening News

“His vocal dexterity amounted to something approaching a Ginger Baker drum solo.” Lothian Life
Record Label: Fat Vibration
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New blog feed

I've revamped my main site and put the feed on feed burner so please come and visit and update your feed reader with the following: Subscribe in a readerSee you soon!Paul
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:46:00 GMT

Facebook Page

I now have a page on Facebook HEREPlease come and say hello!
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 08:58:00 GMT

Official Blog Here

A new year and I've finally got my own website up and running.I'll be blogging from there from now on so please sign up to the RSS feed and you'll know what I'm up to!RSS FeedThanks for you support.Pa...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:37:00 GMT

Horse and aircraft lights

Well it's April & the chocolate eggs have gone already. The sun is racing north & this year is clearly on speed.That said, I've recorded a live album with Andi Neate, helped Tracey B pen & record her...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:30:00 GMT

Voodoo children and ghosts in the guitar

My guitar's broken : ( I couldn't use it at the Bongo gig as the lighting rig was bestowing big earth hum through my baby - which scarily stopped when I touched the strings and the mic at the same ti...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:51:00 GMT

New demo, gigs and bi-phasic sleep

Put some new recordings up on the page: New version of "Glad to See You", also first cuts of "Vapour Trails" and "As Long as it Takes".These are demos based on the guide tracks for my EP which is turn...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:37:00 GMT