news
January
'10 - PARALLEL ALBUM NOW A FREE DOWNLOAD
I've decided to make 'Parallel' available as a completely free download.
Also included are the two extra versions of 'This is how you feel' and
'Waiting for Eden'. You can download it by going
here.
January '10 - PHOTOS FROM THE TOWER
LOUNGE GIG 4/12/09
Photos 1 to 5 (C)
www.kevmalonephotography.com.
November '09 - PLAYING
LIVE AT THE TOWER LOUNGE
Finally, I am playing live once more. I'll be appearing in the
Gazette/Bulmers Rock Quest on December 4th at the Tower Lounge in
Blackpool. It's free admission and there are five other bands on.
I'll be helped out on the night by my old friend Tony Bell (who played in my last gig back in 1989) and by Conner Langfield, the talented young guitarist from the band Apriori.
November '09 - GLAM
ROCKS
A short track of mine called 'Can you hear the waves?' is being used
as part of the Glam Rocks exhibition (see pic below) on South Promenade,
Blackpool. Four other artists (including the excellent Steph Fraser) are
featured. The music should be playing there from 1st December.
August '09 - PODCAST
PLAYS
Been featured on a few podcasts recently including twice on the
wonderful VQS New Music Podcast (played 'Kaleidoscope life' and 'This is
how you feel' (with Claire Anderson)
http://vqs.libsyn.com/index.php?post_year=2009&post_month=08. Also
had two songs played on the equally fantastic 'Electrical Language'
podcast 180 - 'I will be with you' and 'Forbidden World' both got an
outing.
July '09 - BBC6 MUSIC
TOM ROBINSON INTRODUCING (again)
You wait years for the (national) BBC to play your tracks....and
then two come along at once! This time Tom played 'We fall in
love'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/tom_robinsons_introducing/tracklisting_20090713.shtml.
This song was also included on the show's podcast
June '09 - SUBKULTURE
Don't know the full details yet but I believe my song 'Angel' is
going to be included on a compilation CD to be released by Subkulture
Records. When I know more, I'll post the details here.
June '09 - JAMENDO
As an alternative to my site, you can now stream and download 'Slow
motion pictures' from Jamendo.com
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/44422. There are lots of other legal
downloads available on the site, too.
May '09 - BBC6 MUSIC
TOM ROBINSON INTRODUCING
Really pleased to say that 'Broken' was played on Tom Robinson's
(yes, of '2-4-6-8- Motorway' fame) BBC6 Music programme on 31/5/09
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/tom_robinsons_introducing/tracklisting_20090531.shtml.
It was also included on that week's podcast. anymore.
April '09 - 79 RECORDS
REVIEW
There's a nice review (and an interview!) on the 79 Records website.
You can see it by going to
www.79records.com.
February '09 - MADE IN
THE UK
'We fall in love' is currently being played on the Made in the UK
podcast number 59; "A
Music Show dedicated to just the music from the United Kingdom, all the
best this nation has to offer." Who am I to argue?
http://madeintheukshow.blogspot.com/2009/02/made-in-uk-59.html
February '09 - TSM RADIO
Two songs have been playlisted for TSM Radio this month: 'Broken' and 'I
will be with you'.
TSM Radio plays lots of unsigned tracks so it should be worth a
listen.
February '09 - VQS PODCAST
'Broken' is featured on the latest Voodoo Quota Show.
You can listen to this and previous shows by visiting
http://www.myspace.com/voodooquotashow.
February '09 - REVERBNATION CHART
Thanks to everyone who did their bit to push me up the North West
Reverbnation chart.
Your help got me to number 3, which is much appreciated. Thanks again.
Jabuary '09 -
ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE
'We fall in love' was recently played in podcast number
157 from Electrical Language
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:v0GMuaTeBEkJ:www.electricallanguage.co.uk/+paul+berry+podcast&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=uk
January '09 - AMAZON MP3
My first album 'Parallel' is now available on Amazon - and it's much
cheaper from there than
from iTunes. I am still trying to get 'SMP' available on one of the big
MP3 sites.
January '09 - OUROBOUROS PODCAST
Don't know exactly when but 'Broken' will be featured on a future
podcast by the above -
ourobouros.co.uk.
January '09 - GAZETTE LIFE MAGAZINE
REVIEW, TONY BELL
A short review of 'Slow motion pictures' by Robin Duke appeared in
the above on 17/1.
I also met up with Tony Bell recently. Tony played live keyboards for me
when I last did a gig about 48 years ago and
has agreed to do so again. As soon as a I have a live appearance
planned, I'll post details here.
December '08 - SPUTNIK MUSIC REVIEW
Nice review
here on the SputnikMusic.com website.
December '08 - 'STAGGER' SOUNDTRACK
Two of my tracks are to be featured in the soundtrack of a new UK
film planned for 2009.
'Stagger' is a Films UK production written by and
starring Paul Easter. I understand the tracks to be featured are
'Kaleidoscope Life' and 'Broken'. More details should be available soon
here.
December '08 - MORPHEUS MUSIC
A review of sorts of 'Slow motion pictures' appeared on the
Morpheus Music site.
October '08 - PODCASTS AND INTERNET
RADIO
Some tracks have been appearing on shows here and there.
'Inside' is featured in the latest Robo Cast show (no. 28)
http://www.robocastradio.co.uk/latestshow.html.
Freaks.fm played a track off the new album (sorry, I don't know
which one) and Insomnia Radio played 'The echo of your voice'
http://insomniaradio.net/category/ir-regional/ir-uk/.
October '08 - REVERBNATION & XFM
UPLOADED
You can hear PB tracks on both these sites now.
The Reverb Nation site is
http://www.reverbnation.com/paulberry and the XFM site is at
http://www.xfmuploaded.co.uk/paulberry/
October '08 - ALBUM REVIEW
Gary Hunter has very kindly written this review of 'Slow motion
pictures' on his My Space blog.
One of the artists on the "Here We Go - The Other Side Of Metal Beat"
project was Paul Berry who has very kindly made his new album "Slow
Motion Pictures" available as a free download. I have been listening to
this album for the last couple of days and though it deserved to be
reviewed, so, without further a do here are my thoughts:
"I Will Be With You" is the
opening track and has an ambient feel to the start of it with the sounds
used which then morphs in to electronica before you know it. I thought
there was a strong Ultravox influence to this one certainly where the
synth sounds used (Midge Ure era). Track 2 "Broken" flows nicely
from the first track. Quite an atmospheric feel to this one with some
nice guitar work on it. Influence wise I still think there is a hint of
Ultravox mixed with Peter Gabriel. I did love the synths on this one.
The third track is the title track of the album "Slow Motion Pictures"
and straight away the influence of Peter Gabriel hits you. Great bass
line and haunting bass strings. Really liked the rhythm section. Quite a
solid track this one which could very easily be Peter Gabriel if you
didn't know it was Paul Berry that is probably the best compliment I can
pay this track. "The Echo Of Your Voice" is a beautiful ballad
with gorgeous pads and minimal rhythm & percussion. The introduction of
piano on this track works a treat. Reminded me of some of the slow paced
Ultravox tracks from a few years back. This I have to say is a brilliant
track all round and my favourite so far.
"Kaleidoscope Life" is next with it's punchy intro which again
sees a return to the Peter Gabriel influence. Quite a minimalistic track
which builds in to a "Japan" like chorus. Love the use of the synths on
this track. This is definitely a track that grows on you the more you
hear it. Track 6 "Inside" is a Gary Numan influenced track
especially the way he uses the piano to play the vocal line, something
Numan is very fond of doing and to great effect to. Numan isn't the only
influence, the chorus is very "Ultravox" with the sounds used.
"Lost And Found" clearly has an Ultravox influence in it's intro
before it heads in to Duran Duran territory (guitar/vocals). This one is
a bit more of a rock track and for me is the weakest track on the CD. "Forbidden
World" sees us return to a brilliant electronic ballad which I
thought had a touch of Joy Division about it (reminded me in parts of
"Atmosphere"). A very eerie track and one I really enjoyed. The closing
track is called "Satellites" which has a bit of a Depeche Mode
feel to it. Nice piano mixed with some nice synthetic sounds. A good
track to close off the album. A very talented person who has put
together a fine collection of well crafted songs. Excellent production
throughout 8.5/10.
October '08 - NEW ALBUM - SLOW MOTION
PICTURES
The new album 'Slow motion pictures' is available now as a free
download from
here.
It comes as a 55mb zip file - so I hope you have broadband.
I will
make a copies on CD available soon.
August '08 - HERE WE GO - JOHN FOXX TRIBUTE CD
The song 'A stranger in your house' has been
included on the album 'Here we go - The other side of metal beat', a
compilation album featuring artists influenced by the excellent John
Foxx. The project has been put together by Matt Gunn at Toffeetones.
More details are available
here.
Sep '07 - STARTLED BUNNY PODCAST
'The place to cry' has also been featured on one of the latest
podcasts (no. 23) from Startled Bunny, along with a number of other
tracks from signed and unsigned artists.
Sep '07 - COMPUTER MUSIC DVD TO INCLUDE PB TRACK
Issue 118 of Computer Music (out mid September '07) should be
including 'The place to cry' on the DVD as well as a review of sorts.
They often pick apart the production and recording of a song and may
give it a real grilling...but I'm still really grateful they are
including it. Computer Music is available in WHSmith etc all over the
place.
Sep '07 - PLEASE CHECK OUT 'I AM JEN'
If you haven't already heard I am Jen's (Jen Scaturro's) fascinating
music then please visit
http://www.iamjen.com to hear some of
her tracks. She is an extremely talented musician from New York and
surely destined
for success.
Sep
'07 MY SPACE REMIX ON MY SPACE
I recently remixed the track 'This is how you feel' from the album.
This version has more percussion and stuff as well as being a minute
longer! It also features the voice talents of the wonderful Claire
Anderson. You can download it from
http://myspace.com/paulberryuk
PARALLEL NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH iTUNES, NAPSTER & RHAPSODY
'Parallel' is now available at the above online music
sites.
A few other online stores are being added to make the album available
worldwide.
HMV BLACKPOOL STOCKS 'PARALLEL'
You can now get hold of 'Parallel' from HMV in store at the Blackpool
Bank Hey Street branch. I've told them not to order crush barriers.
If you don't live in Blackpool and want the 'physical' release you can
buy it through this site - or ask your local HMV to order it!
LIFE OF BRYAN
Sean McGinty played 'we fall in love' on his BBC Radio Lancashire BRYAN
programme on 17th November. I am sure that if Sean gets enough requests
he will play something else from the album (I promised him a pint). You
can hear many other unsigned Lancashire based bands on the show, so if
you don't like my stuff there may be something else on Sean's show that
is of interest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2006/01/19/radio_bryan_sean_mcginty_feature.shtml
'PARALLEL' REVIEW BY PAUL GOODWIN
"Make no mistake, Parallel, the debut album from UK multi-instrumentalist
Paul Berry, is a stellar record of rare, jaw dropping beauty, a
recording heavily steeped in the kind of exquisite, ethereal melodies
that, once heard, heads straight for the cerebral cortex and damn well
stay there! With each play this intriguing album reveals more and more
of itself until each and every chord, beat and word begins to take up
squatter’s right in the memory banks. Paul’s moody, layered synth sound
is nothing short of intoxicating, evoking fond memories of luminaries
such as Depeche Mode, Gary Numan and even Vangelis during their early
80s synth heavy peak as he expertly weaves
his sonic tapestries over the album's 9 mesmerising songs.
Of the tracks on offer there is clearly much to admire with lush,
otherworldly ballads effortlessly rubbing shoulders with the records
rockier, more pulverising moments. The album itself opens up
impressively enough with the Moby like commercialisms of “We Fall In
Love”, a striking track that will surely feature heavily, over the
coming weeks and months, on the play list any respectable DJ worth their
salt. However though, for this writer, the highpoint of the record
belongs to “A Stranger In Your House”, a pulse pounding, Ultravox like
throbber that menacingly stalks the speakers with the kind of glacial
chill you’d happily find on a Goldfrapp record. Equally the
claustrophobic pre-emptive strike of “Angel” almost matches “Stranger”
beat for beat as it rumbles on by simmering with barely suppressed
aggression.
Elsewhere “One Day Soon”, “This Is How You
Feel” and “Waiting For Eden” revel in epic, utopian backdrops whilst the
windswept, cinematic sheen of “The Place To Cry” (a track that
highlights Paul’s strong atmospheric leanings) is just about pipped to
the post in the moody stakes by the Bladerunner like roar of the albums
impressive title track. Concluding the record is “The Village”, a track
that gradually drifts off into the ether over a somewhat disturbing,
skin crawling industrial canvas bringing the album
to an assured and
satisfactory finale.
Superbly produced and extremely professionally packaged, Parallel is an
album that you will find yourself going back to time and time again. Now
how many
records can you say that about these days?"
Paul Goodwin, author of the Gary Numan collector's guide Electric
Pioneer. November 2006.
'WE FALL IN LOVE' ON
DANDELION RADIO
Andrew Morrison has playlisted 'we fall in
love' on his November show on Dandelion Radio. This station is very much
in the style of the late great John Peel and is well worth a listen for
the many excellent unsigned artists that get played. Please support the
station by giving the shows a listen (and perhaps request some more PB
tracks!)
www.dandelionradio.com/
PB FEATURED ON INSOMNIA
RADIO
Stuart Morrison (no relation to Andrew - see above) played 'we fall
in love' on episode 13 of Insomnia Radio UK recently. I think you can
still listen to the show by logging on to
http://uk.insomniaradio.net
. If you like the song please download it from this site - it's a
freebie.