Paolo Nutini...
If you think you know Paolo Nutini, think again. His million selling 2006 debut album, 'These Streets', established the young Scotsman as a leading light amongst the new wave of singer-songwriters. Paolo's extraordinary follow up, 'Sunny Side Up', released June 1st casts him in a whole other light.
"Musically where I'm at, I don't really have a genre or style that I feel a part of," explains Paolo. "I skip from Djhango Reinhart to Cab Calloway to Canned Heat. It's a bit of a random mish mash.
I honestly wanted it all to come out, and not harness it, not manipulate it. I just wanted it to be organic, and so immediate it's in your face and you can't help but take it all in."
Paolo's debut was recorded on the hoof. "We were overdubbing the last guitar part 20 minutes before we had the first gig of the tour. I felt privileged to be there but I didn't really know what kind of album I was making." After two years on the road, this time he really wanted to focus. So he started last year by moving into a residential studio with his band for two months of exploratory sessions, which then led onto another six months of recording. "The boys in the band, they're all real players. It's a wide range of characters and I wanted to really get to know these guys and find out whether or not we were in the same spot. One or two didn't feel they were going to be commercially secure with this musical direction, and didn't want to run that risk. That was fine. The ones who stayed were all part of the creative
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