Paul Rooney

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Born
23 June 1967 (age 57)
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

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1 Play track Lucy Over Lancashire Lucy Over Lancashire
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2 Play track Futile Exorcise Sunday Best
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3 Futile Exorcise Lost High Street
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4 Bay Of Biscay (Lorenzo Mix) Bay Of Biscay (Lorenzo Mix)
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5 Futile Exorcise Bay of Biscay
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6 The Cruel Mother The Cruel Mother
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7 Surface Industries I Words and Silence
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8 Surface Industries I Hold the Line for a Moment
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9 Futile Exorcise Father's Grave
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10 Mackenzie (Smell of the Petrol) Mackenzie (Smell of the Petrol)
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    3 Apr 2017 · 8 tracks

    Futile Exorcise
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  2. 119 listeners

    23 Apr 2007 · 1 track

    Lucy Over Lancashire
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