Album Credits!

So, you take a Yorkshire wurzel who loves to write songs but hasn't got the equipment, patience or actual ability to record them well. Then, you need to add the North East's answer to Miles Davis (in trumpeting ability, not in terms of serious intravenous drug abuse) who has equipment, and patience, and bucketloads of ability to record songs, but isn't as keen on writing them. You stick them together, add ridiculous amounts of laughter, and quite a lot of playing FIFA and swearing at the computer for giving ridiculous free kicks against you and what do you come out with? Various States of Undress, that's what! Recorded in Newcastle over the summer of 2011, the album really brings together the best of both Pauls, and basically if you enjoy this album even half as much as we do, then we enjoy the album twice as much as you! Hang on, that doesn't sound right.

It says on here that I have to tell you as much as I want about my music. I don't know what to put, really. I've been told it really fuses all my influences, which mainly revolve around The Beatles, Queen, Beach Boys, and Billy Joel. But they're not the only artists I've ever listened to, or been inspired by. I'm always on the lookout for new ideas, always trying to push my own creative boundaries while echoing the music I loved as a kid and grew up with. I think I've achieved that on this album, and it also ties in with the first time in my life I've felt comfortable enough to write happy, laid back and high-spirited songs. So now, what I want is to share them with, well, you! So...you know...what are you waiting for? Buy my album! I only need six or seven million people to buy it before I can jack in my day job and call it a day...why not make a humble northern yokel's dream come true?! :-) Hope you have as much fun listening as we did recording it - cheers for dropping by!
Paul

All songs written by Paul Staveley
All songs produced by Paul Riley-Gledhill

All guitars, pianos, basses, woodblock solos, triangle quartets and Didgeridoo symphonies played by Paul Staveley.
Dirty Trumpet on Desire by Paul Riley-Gledhill.
All drums programmed by Paul Staveley and Paul Riley-Gledhill. (Mostly Paul Riley-Gledhill. Like, 95% him.)
All vocals (even the high bits) by Paul Staveley.

Special Thanks to:
Sarah – raison d’etre.
Paul RG – Patience and genius personified.
Steph – Liebowitz’s day is done.
Sandy Z – distant relative, Twitter buddy, album name inventor.
Mum - I literally couldn't have done this without you!
John, Paul, George, Ringo - Apotheosis.
Billy Joel - You may be right, I may be crazy.

Thanks to:
The nice people at CD baby for distributing this
Hal Stewart for his incredible beard
Ian Dolamore: satisfactory, but odd.
My hilarious, awful, wonderful and terrible primate of a sister, I love you despite your face
My nephew Sammy (look at what your daft Uncle Paul did!)
Olympic Florence
Silk and Tugboat
The Diplodocus. What a dinosaur.