Paul Simpson

Paul Simpson is an English musician, vocalist, lyricist and writer from Liverpool, England, best known for his work with the Wild Swans and Care. Musically, his contributions have crossed the genres of synth-pop, post-punk, neo-psychedelia, new wave and ambient.

Career Born in Huyton, Simpson studied at Hugh Baird College in Bootle, and later shared a flat (vacated by Julian Cope and his first wife after they broke up) on Devonshire Road with Pete de Freitas (and later Courtney Love).

His music career began in the mid-1970s punk rock band Psycho Mesh, after which he joined up with his school friend Will Sergeant as Industrial Domestic, and then the bedsit collaboration with Cope, Ian McCulloch and others under the name 'A Shallow Madness'. This later transformed into the Cope-led Teardrop Explodes, while McCulloch went on to form Echo & the Bunnymen with Sergeant.

He left the Teardrops in 1979 to form his own band the Wild Swans in 1980. Between the two incarnations of the band, he was also co-founder of the duo Care with Ian Broudie, later of the Lightning Seeds.

For several years, he worked on his crowdfunded autobiography, Incandescent.

Discography Albums The Dream Diaries (2005), Astral Girl Man in a Burning Anorak – Vol 1 (2010), Astral Girl Man in a Burning Anorak – Vol 2 (2010), Astral Girl

as Skyray "Invisible" (1996), Ochre Tranquilliser (1996), Ochre "Neptune Variations" (1997), Ochre "Womb" (1999), Space Age Mind Lagoons (1999), Ochre Slow Dissolve (2000), Magnetic Ice Rink Music (2004), Astral Girl Liquid Crystal Display (2005), Astral Girl

with The Teardrop Explodes Sleeping Gas single (1979), Zoo

with The Wild Swans see The Wild Swans (band)#Discography

with Care see Care (band)#Discography

with The Serpents You Have Just Been Poisoned (1998), Ochre