Paul Statham was born in Shirebrook,a Derbyshire mining village close to Mansfield.He formed his first band B-MOVIE while still at school .The band released 3 critically acclaimed singles rememberance day, nowhere girl and marilyn dreams, along with an album Forever Running (on the Sire label),and toured extensivelPaul Statham was born in Shirebrook,a Derbyshire mining village close to Mansfield.He formed his first band B-MOVIE while still at school .The band released 3 critically acclaimed singles rememberance day, nowhere girl and marilyn dreams, along with an album Forever Running (on the Sire label),and toured extensively in U.S and Europe .4 albums to date have been released including the highly acclaimed John Peel sessions.After the demise of B-Movie he began working with former/current BAUHAUS vocalist PETER MURPHY and to date have cowritten 6 studio albums including the breakthrough U.S top 40 album Deep and 1 best of album "Wild Birds".While recording the album "Cascade" in Spain he struck up a friendship with producer Pascal Gabriel. On return to London, Statham and Gabriel formed an electro pop group called PEACH and along with singer Lisa Lamb signed to Daniel Millers Mute Records in 1996.The single On My Own featured in the hit comedy film Sliding Doors and went on to become a U.S top 40 single,selling over a million copies. An album Audiopeach was released but the band decided not to continue. In 1999 he co-wrote Here With Me and I'm No Angel with then unsigned singer DIDO. Here with me went on to become a world wide hit and the album No Angel eventually sold 14 million copies. The next few years were spent collaborating with a number of artists including 2 Massive Attack vocalists SHARA NELSON and DOT ALLISON (cowriting her Arista single Close your eyes),before heading back to pop , co-writing 2 songs with KYLIE on her no 1 album Fever. At the same time he began collaborating with well known artist and art curator Victor de Circasia who encouraged him to work on visual and audio installations in galleries around the world. From 2001 Statham has had many installations in European galleries and collaborated with the poet Neil Rollinson, painter's Daisy Cook, Giuliana Fresco, Antonella Piro and Aldo Rota, and sculptors Noriaki Maeda, David Mach & Luisa Valentina.June 2004 saw the release of the HELICOPTER GIRL album Voodoo Chic which Statham produced and co-wrote 5 tracks from . From the same label he co wrote with former Alice Band vocalist AMY BELLE and a song entitled blank white sheets co-written with new artist STEPHANIE KIRKHAM appeared on her debut album "That Girl". A co-write with new Universal signing KRISTIAN LEONTIOU entitled "Here I am"was featured on his top 10 single Shining. October 2004 saw the release of Peter Murphy's new album Unshattered including 6 new co -written/produced tracks with Statham.The rest of 2004 was spent cowriting with various artists including SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR, LIZ McLARNON ,EMMA BUNTON,GERI HALLIWELL and AMY STUDT. A co-written track with Pascal Gabriel and Hannah Robinson entitled"I will be there" was covered by RACHEL STEVENS for her 2nd album "Come And Get It" .The first half of 2005 saw the completion of former Alishas Attic vocalist SHELLY POOLE's debut album "Hard time for the dreamer".The entire album was recorded/mixed at Stathams Loki studio and Shellys Backroom studio.It contains 10 co-written and co-produced songs including the singles "Totally Underwater" "hard time for the dreamer " and "Lost in You"." Summer 2006 saw Statham working with producer MAGNUS FIENNES on his "freefonix"animated Tv project co writing and co-producing 3 tracks.A track entitled "out of my hands"written with Alice Mcglaughlin has been covered by RnB star KEISHA WHITE and is the title track of her new album released in Autumn 06. September 2006 also saw collaborations with RnB singer TERRI WALKER and Hip Hop star ESTELLE for the Rhyme4respect project.December 06 saw the start of a writing collaboration with former Spandau Ballet songwriter/guitarist GARY KEMP writing songs for and with a number of artist's .2 tracks entitled "when Im here with you" and "Endless circles" were recorded with former BLACK BOX RECORDER vocalist SARAH NIXEY for her new album "Sing Memory" released in Feb 2007.The first of these tracks became the first single released in Jan 07.Around 8 songs have been written for and with young new singer ROXANNE YARNOLD who has so far supported Westlife ,Shane Ward and G4 on their Arena tours.In Sept 06 two instrumental pieces were used in the ROSSINI festival at Pesaro in Italy.Entitled "the Spire" and "architecture" they also accompany Italian painter PAOLO MAZZANTI in a joint exhibition entitled La Vista Del Tempo held at the Palazzo Lazzarini. September 07 saw 2 new pieces of music being written for an exhibition of paintings by legendary Italian painter ALDO ROTA (Maestro of Lombardy) and premiered in Milan at the Spazio Strato.The start of 08 saw writing sessions with Warner Chappell new signings , Glaswegian singer songwriter PEARL and THE PUPPETS(katie Sutherland) and London based singer/songwriter KIRSTENANA.3 tracks written for renowned graffiti artist and rapper REMI ROUGH for the REMDOG project.2 tracks written with DOT ALLISON for her new album project.Ideas being fielded to PETER MURPHY for new album. HELICOPTER GIRL 3rd album "Metropolitan" released in the Summer of 2008 featuring 10 new cowrites/production and was led by the single"it doesn't get much better than this" A new track "Outsider" was co written in May 08 with WILL YOUNG and Shelly Poole .A track "Why me why now" has been written with Hannah Robinson and used by new Polydor girl THE SATURDAYS on their top 10 album "Chasing Light" .Most of Autumn 08 has been spent writing and recording with new Warner Chappell signing ED DREWETT for his debut album.Ed has now been signed by Virgin/EMI (March 09).New tracks written with Shelly Poole and Charity Hare are being used for their new band project RED SKY JULY.From Autumn 08 is guest teaching 1 day a week on the MA songwriting course at Bath Spa University.2009 brings the completion of Ed's album and continued writing with KIRSTEN ANA and new Warner Chappell signing ELIZA WREN PAYNE .Spring 09 has started his own project "THE DARK FLOWERS"
using various vocalists exploring the dark heart of america over various soundscapes/instrumental pieces.(think Annie Proulx over messed up gothic country music !).Summer to Autumn 09 cowrites include new Arista RnB artist MCLEAN(formerly known as Digga),7 times mobo nominated rapper KANO and SIMPLE MINDS vocalist JIM KERR.Writing continues with ED DREWETT and ELIZA WREN PAYNE.The Dark Flowers project now includes collaborations with JIM KERR..DOT ALLISON..HELICOPTER GIRL..SHELLY POOLE with more to follow,more details soon.