The collective catalogue to date written by Paul:

 

Albums

 

Hearts of Oak
re-worked and and added to in 2007 and hoped to have its first release May 2008 (but badly needing Producer of Visconti type proportions)

 

The album features songs of the sea written by Paul.

Some of his favourite songs - 'A Salty Dog' - Procul Harum,  'His Last Voyage' and 'Wreck' by Gentle Giant, were the inspiration, and although he is basically a rock musician, some of the songs take on a 'folk' like life of their own!

Assisted by good friend Terry Vials who engineered all the recording and created the Hearts Of Oak cover, the Perfect Pitch logo and the next four covers shown below.  Please take note of the clever way Terry has incorporated "The Whole World" (the Perfect Pitch Publishing company) into all the covers.

We think Hearts of Oak is Paul's best to date - check our the samples and see !

 

 

Puppet Master

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Me, Myself and I like to do things myself"  - a double CD collection of Paul's songs

(still in progress) a semi autobiographical story based on the "Petruscia" story - raw rock - but a story too - with good friend Rob Harris on guitar and bass.

 

We've still got to ask Terry Vials to come up with a Cover for this yet! In fact - we've got to decide which songs are going to be featured on it - ohhh so much time and so little to do! ...er... Willie Wonka that one please. 

 

Musicals:

Days in Glass Cages

 

 

The Musical - the story of Aaron & Elytra his wife caught for experimetation, and the escape made with their other insect friends - Oddly in 1987 when this was written, no literary agent would touch it - "No one what to see stories about insects" Hmmm.... after Antz,  Bugs Life, I've realised Agents are not actually that clever!

 

 

 

 

 

The Art of Living Apart -

 

 

 

 

Based on the story of Nelson and Winnie Mandella -  still requiring a "stonking" ending!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In collaboration with Jenny Brench has written: 

Toys (1986) 

 

 

 

Written as an alogory of modern day kids, who want everything, dont want to work for it and usually get all they want without doing very much......

As the clock strikes 12, the Toy Train chuffs into life and carries the rowdy toys, who now live their lives while the baby sleeps.

 

 

  

Cloud Cuckoos (1988)

 

 

Just what does happen when you die? and more importantly what happens to sex when you die? Does it never happen in Heaven? Well....our story plumets the depths to find out what if!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both works were performed locally - and were very well received.  Toys reached the final 10 of the BNFL Search for a Musical Competition in 1995, and went through to the last round of the Vivian Ellis Prize with the PRS 

Working with his local church and Fth. Dennis Finbow he has either added to/Musical Directed/written new material for:

General Mickey - a musical based on the life of St. Don Bosco

Kids From Nowhere - a musical highlighting the plight of the street children of Cochabamba

 

With a bunch of friends including pianist Rod Brooks, bassist Jay Hartop and guitarist Rob Harris, Paul performed Hearts of Oak live with good critical acclaim. Paul would have loved to continue - but keeping a group of 7 singers and musicians together was not commercially viable.

Fortunatly, Paul was able to enter the Performing Right Society, when local Raido Station Chiltern and BBC 3 Counties Radio played some of his work in Hearts of Oak which was then picked up and used in a radio and TV advert, which has kept the momentum going.

Not being a time waster, to enable his musicals to be performed with a written score, Paul decided to learn how to read and write music. Paul's son Matthew started to take music theory, and (because Matt wanted to) they both took up the violin. After taking and passing theory exams and grades in Percussion and Piano, he was invited to join the staff - to teach drum kit and electronic keyboards in 1998 and was a teacher at Huntingdonshire Music School. On the 25th Anniversary of the Music School, Paul was commissioned to write the theme music for the occasion to Dryden's poem "Song for St.Cecillias Day" to be performed for HRH The Duchess of Gloucester.
The piece was later dedicated and presented to her Royal Highness.

Paul is a Licentiate (LGSM) of Percussion at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1996 and has a Licentiate in teaching of music from the Trinity College of Music (LTCL) in 1998.   He left in 2002 to spend more time writing and performing - the college presented Paul with an Honorary Fellowship.

In 1999 paul was commissiond by Scott Worsfold of the well known Huddersfield theatre group "The CragRats" to write music for their BT Presentation "TalkWorks", which after being layed in hundreds of schools all over the UK, culminated in performances at The Millenium Dome.

In 2004 he was advised by friend and brilliant guitarist Rob Harris, to forget analogue 8 track recording and move into the digital domain. Rob spent hours and hours with Paul to teach him how to use a Mac and a Logic Pro 7, the result being the two Bolton Iron Maiden albums Maiden Flight and Boulton Flies Again and his own work Hearts of Oak is now being re-done digitally.

So work is still in progress - he must be the slowest composer since Scott Walker who produces CD's a the rate of one every 10 years! We think it's worth it - try some!