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Biography:
After touring Sugardrive’s last album, “Love Etc…”, Paul E. Flynn, entered the studio with long time friend, and Springbok Nude Girls’ guitarist, Theo Crous, to work on some new solo material. The result was “Fields”, an album consisting of eleven tracks more along the lines of artists such as Van Morrison, James and Morrissey than Sugardrive.
This album has taken Flynn to a new level of songwriting, incorporating aspects that he has thus far not yet explored. The lyrics, true to form, are poetic. Flynn has used words to conjure images and paint pictures in one’s mind, and the melodies that complement these lyrics seem to have been created in songwriting utopia.
In the 90s Sugardrive was arguably the best rock band in South Africa. By the time they reached their zenith, Sugardrive were regular festival headliners, had recorded four albums (for which they garnered three SAMAs [South African Music Awards]), and were voted band of the year on so many occasions by media such as The Star, SL Magazine, 5FM, Die Beeld, Pretoria News, Daily News and others, that they assumed the unofficial tag of “SA Media Darlings”. They also supported Alanis Morissette on her South African tour and shared the stage in Australia with Coldplay, Queens Of The Stone Age and Placebo, amongst others.
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