His first break came with electro-pop artist Mr Fogg. During his time playing for Mr Fogg Paul had his first opportunities to play at major UK festivals, venues and national radio. Soon after Paul was noticed by Jon Courtney of Pure Reason Revolution (PRR). Before long, Paul was a full time member of the progressive-electronic-rock outfit, touring the UK, Europe and the US. The act were signed to Sony/BMG, their career saw them release four albums, the likes of which gathered much critical acclaim and a cult following.
In 2011 PRR disbanded and Paul was asked to take up drum duties for Scroobius Pip, one of the UK’s leading spoken word/hip hop exponents. With Pip and the ‘Distraction Pieces Band’, Paul enjoyed the success of sold out tours of the UK and Ireland, extensive European tours, and highly anticipated appearances at some of the UK and Ireland’s largest festivals. In the autumn of 2014 Paul was called upon to play drums for B.Dolan, a highly respected American hip hop artist being released on Scroobius Pip’s own record label ‘Speech Development Records’. Paul will continue to work with Scroobius Pip, B.Dolan and other artists associated with Speech Development records.
Between 2013 and 2015 Paul was a been a member of dual-drummer alt-rock super group Red Kite, fronted by ex-Cooper Temple Clause guitarist and singer Dan Fisher. As well as gaining a reputation as an exciting and ferocious live band, Red Kite released their debut album ‘Songs For Crow’ in 2014 to high regard.
During 2014 Paul had the opportunity to play prestigious venue shows and major folk festival appearances with BBC Award winning folk artist Lisa Knapp demonstrating Paul’s ability to adapt to his musical situation. Paul also has a keen love of Jazz and regularly plays with Jazz acts such as The Tomcats and his own jazz band ‘The Hengist Quartet’.
Paul’s latest and most exciting project is with Pure Reason Revolution band mate Chloe Alper. Chloe has teamed up with multi-instrumentalist and a MOBO and Grammy nominated engineer Mat Collis to form ‘Tiny Giant’. Watch out for this exciting new project. www.paulgloverdrummer.co.uk
