The words of Paul Rooney's sung and spoken pieces deal with everyday subjects that are made strange via lo-fi post-punk experimental-folk music or by narrative daftness, stressing the absurdity of our attempts to make meaning out of the world. From 1998 to 2000 he released three lo-fi punk pop albums as the band ‘Rooney’ (see http://www.last.fm/label/Common+Culture), featuring in John Peel’s Festive Fifty in 1998, as well as recording a session for Peel's Radio 1 show a year later (which was re-broadcast on BBC 6 Music in 2016). The lyrics of every Rooney song obsessively… read more
The words of Paul Rooney's sung and spoken pieces deal with everyday subjects that are made strange via lo-fi post-punk experimental-folk music or by narrative daftness, stressing the absurdity of our attempts to make meaning out of the world. From 1998 to 2000 he released three lo-fi p… read more
The words of Paul Rooney's sung and spoken pieces deal with everyday subjects that are made strange via lo-fi post-punk experimental-folk music or by narrative daftness, stressing the absurdity of our attempts to make meaning out of the world. From 1998 to 2000 he released three lo-fi punk pop albums as the band ‘Rooney’ (see http://www.last.fm/label/Common… read more