Paradise Popinjay is the alter ego of Alex Paradise, an English songwriter and musician, who's day job is as the singer, bass and piano playing part of the genre defining superswing act The Fabrics.

Paradise began his musical career as a teenager playing the bass guitar in a variety of touring bands for three years in the middle nineties before taking a degree in English Literature and Theatre at Goldsmith's College, London.

Along with Joseph Jarlett and Errol Flynn he formed the Fabrics in 2002 and was signed to Switch Music, through whom the single Cassawanka hit number 24 in the dance charts and was critically acclaimed. Sleaze Nation, a popular British monthely lifestyle magazine, declared The Fabrics new style as "space-age Charleston ugly funk that should by rights come with its own troupe of dancing girls wearing extravagant head dresses and sequins". The band are currently recording their debut album, and putting the final touches to the video for their song Apples and McGrath.

Paradise Popinjay, and his real world band The Popinjays, represents, in Paradise's own words, "all that I ever wanted to write but was never quite brave enough". His debut album Nu Seedy, under the title The Popinjays but written, performed and produced entirely by Paradise, is an extraordinary eclectic mix of songs, from the electro pop of Zip Me Up through the driving guitars of How Long is My Love? to the reflective piano of Our Second Life and on into the distance, it has to be heard to be believed. For samples of all the songs, have a listen at www.superswingrecords.co.uk.

Live, Paradise Popinjay takes his material from both The Popinjays and The Fabrics and puts it all to just a piano and his voice, an intimate, unique and unmissable show.

More Information: www.paradisepopinjay.com