User:Bellbeat/Paul Quinn/Musician

Paul Quinn Drummer/Singer/Songwriter, born August 9th 1963 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire Scotland. Joined Scottish band The Soup Dragons as drummer mid 1989 to tour the album Lovegod. First track he played on was the worldwide hit of The Rolling Stones written track "I'm Free". He played drums on the follow-up to Lovegod, "Hotwired". The bands success grew rapidly in the U.S and where nominated for MTV award for the "Divine Thing" video directed by Nick Egan. Quinn left The Soup Dragons and a year later joined another Scottish band "Teenage Fanclub" replacing Brendan O'Hare on drums. Quinn played on Grand Prix, Songs from Northern Britain and Howdy as well as the Jad Fair/Teenage Fanclub collaboration "Songs of Wisdom & Hope" which he also contributed to the writing of the music. In Feb 2000 he left Teenage Fanclub due to personal differences and 6 months later began writing songs. Quinn teamed up with New Stevenston born musician Ryan Currie and formed The Primary 5