From 1998 to 2000 Liverpool based Paul Rooney self released three lo-fi experimental pop CD albums as ‘Rooney’, in which every song described mundane life, from looking at found photographs to doodling on a call centre shift. After this Paul made, and continues to make, music and video works for galleries, showing in British Art Show 6 amongst other exhibitions. Rooney’s next record release, under his full name, the post-punk dub 12″ single Lucy Over Lancashire, was put out by SueMi Records of Berlin in 2007. It featured an unreliable narration delivered by a satanic Lancastrian sprite. His first full length album since 2000, Futile Exorcise, was released in 2017 and the follow up, Surface Industries I– skewed ambient pop songs of call centre workers and chat room conversations – in 2021. Both were released by Owd Scrat.
