Career
The Stranglers He replaced Hugh Cornwell in The Stranglers in 1990 and appeared on and co-wrote their studio albums Stranglers In the Night, About Time, Written in Red, Coup de Grace, and Norfolk Coast. He performed live as a non-playing frontman, as The Stranglers recruited separate guitarist John Ellis and later Baz Warne to co-replace Cornwell, who sang vocals and played guitar. Paul left The Stranglers after almost 16 years (believed to be longer than his predecessor, according to press quotes from his former colleagues) in May 2006.
The split was officially described as "amicable." The band reverted to a four-piece with Warne taking over lead vocals and Jean-Jacques Burnel returning to singing songs he originally provided lead vocals on.
Soulsec Soulsec is the title of his current project, and to date he has written the albums "FAITH?" (under the name "The Faithband"), "Self Discovery","The Pressure Sensitive" 2007"s"End Games" and the current "5,4 now". Also the singles God, When Reason Sleeps, 8 Days and Swim.
There have also been several acoustic/electric live and studio CDs. Soulsec was in existence as a side-project for some of the later years he was still with The Stranglers.
Other work In December 2005, he was involved in a dramatic car crash in which his car was thrown into the air and landed upside down, but he escaped without injury.
He is an avid fund-raiser for a prostate cancer charity.
