indie rock
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Hull
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* Chassis, of an armored fighting vehicle
* Fuselage, of an aircraft
* Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds
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. Between April 2005 and 9 November 2006, they played over 150 live shows, including venues such as Trent Park Golf Club, The Square, Harlow;
Jersey Live
Jersey Live Music Festival (alternatively Jersey Live) was a music festival held annually at The Royal Jersey Showground in the parish of Trinity, Jersey between 2004 and 2016.
Overview
Jersey Live started out as a 4,000-capacity, one-day ev ...
Stoke-on-Trent
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;
T in the Park
T in the Park festival was a major Scottish music festival that was held annually from 1994 to 2016. It was named after its main sponsor, Tennents. The event was held at Strathclyde Park, Lanarkshire, until 1996. It then moved to the disused ...
and at the
Reading and Leeds Festivals
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.
Career
Composed of Tom Atkin (
vocalist
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...
), Stuee Bevan (
guitarist
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) (originally Martin Hines), Josh Hubbard (guitarist); and brothers Lloyd (
bassist
A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), synthbass, keyboard bass or a low bra ...
) and Grant Dobbs (
drummer
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Most contemporary western bands that play rock, pop, jazz, or R&B music include a drummer for purposes including timekeeping and embellishing the musical timbre. The drummer' ...
), they were signed by
Alan McGee
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to his Poptones
record label
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.
They originally made their name touring in and around the Hull area, at such venues as the Welly Club, The New Adelphi Club, and the Railway pub in Cottingham and became part of the New Yorkshire movement of the mid-2000s. Favoured by Libertines
frontman
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produced
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Oasis
In ecology, an oasis (; ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environmentDefinitely Maybe''. While their first LP achieved only modest commercial success, it raised the band's profile sufficiently to see singer Atkin listed on NME's Cool List 2005.
In November 2006, they headed out on a small scale national tour to road test new material. They appeared alongside
The Cribs
The Cribs are a British indie rock band originally from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, that formed in 2001. The band consists of twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their younger brother Ross Jarman. They were subsequently joined by ex-The Smiths guit ...
at the
Birmingham Academy
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Former venue (until 2009)
Live music on the site of the O Academy Birmingham's former Dale End venue dates back to 1964 when the venue was first opened as ...
. The Paddingtons also appeared with Dirty Pretty Things at The Forum in May, and again at The Spice Festival at the
Hackney Empire
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in July 2007. On a holiday in
Taipei
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, Carl Barat of Dirty Pretty Things broke his collarbone, so they recruited the help of Hubbard to play guitar while Barat's injury healed.
In December 2007, they appeared alongside The Neat and The View at Hull City Hall, as part of the
Love Music Hate Racism
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campaign. During the same month they also played a free gig on Christmas Eve to raise money to refurbish the toilets in The New Adelphi Club. Their live sets have included a
cover version
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of
The Clash
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's song, "
Janie Jones
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Molly's Lips
"Candy"/"Molly's Lips" is a vinyl-only split-single from the American rock bands The Fluid and Nirvana. It was released in January 1991 on Sub Pop records and includes two live tracks: "Candy" by The Fluid; and "Molly's Lips", a cover of a song b ...
."
The band's second album, ''
No Mundane Options
''No Mundane Options'' is The Paddingtons' second album, released on 3 November 2008, and released through their own Mama Bear record label.
Track listing
#"Punk R.I.P."
#"What's The Point in Anything New"
#"Shame about Elle"
#"No Mundane Opti ...
'', was released on 3 November 2008. The first single from the album, "Stand Down," was released on the Mama Bear Records label, on 4 August 2008. It also included the single "What's The Point In Anything New."
In December 2009, the band announced plans to release a new EP, ''The Lady Boy Tapes'', which was released the following year. It saw the band team up with Adam Green from The Moldy Peaches for the single "Lady Boy" which was accompanied by a low budget video featuring various places of interest in Hull including Boothferry Park, Humber Bridge and The Deep whilst brothers Lloyd and Grant drink in The Paddington's favourite pub Queens Hotel.
After a five-year hiatus, The Paddingtons reunited to play Hull's flagship festival Humber Street Sesh Festival in 2014, and returned in 2018 to play a "wonderfully shambolic" set according to Jimi Arundell in Gigwise.
No Mundane Options
''No Mundane Options'' is The Paddingtons' second album, released on 3 November 2008, and released through their own Mama Bear record label.
Track listing
#"Punk R.I.P."
#"What's The Point in Anything New"
#"Shame about Elle"
#"No Mundane Opti ...
''
Compilation albums
* 2004 - ''Bring Your Own Poison - The Rhythm Factory Sessions'' - (contributed an early version of the future album track - "Tommy's Disease").
* 2006 - ''Back To The Bus''
Panic Attack
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" (UK No. 25)
* 2005 - " 50 to a Pound" (UK No. 32)
* 2005 - "
Sorry
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* ''So ...
" (UK No. 41)
* 2008 - "Stand Down"
* 2008 - "What's The Point in Anything New"