Bio

Paul \\\"Steptoe\\\" Riley is a songwriter, musician and producer born and raised in London. He started out as a guitarist/songwriter with South London reggae band The Redbeats before forming The Ardliners. He played and sang in the 1990s with a variety of bands including Tribal Union and Hotliners. Released a UK garage record \\\"Just like this\\\" featuring Glen Ford as part of Groovtex in 2004 and wrote the backing track for a re-mix of Geridu\\\'s \\\"Must be the music\\\" which was released in 2005 under the guise of Fluid House.Writes and performs with Chris \\\"A-BB\\\" Francis as Dubtwins Made several tracks with London Diva, Ruby Red AKA Natalie Corbett, one of which (Friday Evening) I\\\'ve posted here. Simply Everyone\\\'s taking cocaine , a poem by Murray Lachlan Young set to one of my backing tracks. Murray has had his poems set to music before but I reckon this is one of the best. Busy for most of 2007 working on the now defunct \\\"Steptoe & Carlene Graham\\\" act. During 2008-2009 Worked mainly with Welsh singer Laura J Evans and released a 5 track EP under the name Smiling Sinners. Teamed up again very briefly in 2010 with Carlene Graham. Played solo at many venues throughout London during the period between the end of 2010 till mid 2012 before forming acoustic collective Beo which is currently keeping me busy. As usual I\\\'m continuing to write new songs [b] http://www.youtube.com/user/livebeo?feature=watch https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI_SynBeWkCibxNKWKJYMiQ?feature=watch