paul james berry
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pulled from site's meta descriptionHome page of paul james berry. “Paul James Berry is an English singer-songwriter who writes and performs with an incredible emotionally charged sincerity - he’s the real thing; blood, guts and honesty!” - Rock/Folk-France “The missing link between Neil Young & Nick Cave with the added cheeky wit of John Lennon and Spike Milligan” - Leeds Music/ UK A paradoxical mix of a Yorkshire man’s Northern bluntness that tells it like it is and a “continental poetic tongue which educates and stirs...!” - Bubblegum Slut/ UK With the aid of an acoustic guitar or on occasions a ukulele / harmonica / piano, he sits center-stage and recounts with his powerful seducing voice the tales of his life on the back streets of Leeds/England, all the years of touring clubs and bars of Europe and finally to his crippling road accident in Brighton/England in 2009 which still leaves him limping around with a stick like Dr House..... At the age of eight PJB was punished by caning for singing too loud and with too much emotion in school assembly..... At 15 he left school and in the 80s formed the Rock/Goth band, The Rose of Avalanche. Successful to an indie level, he played guitar and handled the music and song arrangements. Eventually enough was enough, he broke up the band in the 90s and started to, literally, scream his guts out. Armed with a 12-string acoustic guitar he played every possible venue in the UK and Europe performing anywhere and everywhere his own songs (strip clubs in Hamburg, flee markets in Paris, techno discos, prisons, etc.). Mostly just barking and wailing, but this process served to purge in a cathartic way his suppressed need to sing....... Eventually he started to pay his dues to ‘the god of sore throats’ and learned the craft of singer-songwriting..... 3 solo albums later (PJB, Ginnel, Nations) which saw him support giants of the songwriting genre such as Frank Black, Vic Chestnutt, Kevin Coyne, David Bowie, Howe Gelb, Townes Van Zandt and many more......, he’s back after rehabilitating from his accident to do a new album.....
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