This is Paddy's Big Bordel Band website - For Paddy's "DUSK" project click here.
Dublin born and bred, he's the one that got away - landed on his feet in the night-time music world of Paris, trombone in hand and an original song on his lips. For Paddy Sherlock a lifetime's adventure began on the cobbled streets and the smoky underground clubs of the Latin Quarter.
Paddy's Big Bordel Band led the Neo-Swing movement in Paris with a full-on New Orleans Brass Band sound and was described as "Somewhere between Frank Sinistra and Dread Astaire". Paddy famously played the longest ever residence in modern Paris history - 20 years every Sunday at the Coolin in the heart of the Saint Germain quarter.
Rock and Folk magazine said of them: "Jazz - But not the kind that breaks your balls..."
Mythic Paddy Sherlock scenes stick like cinema in the imaginations of those who've seen and heard him: the band on stage still beating like a heart but Paddy leaping to the helm, high above the enraptured crowd, lamps swinging back and forth between each wail and jab of his horn, feet kicking along a narrow bar as men and women swoon and sing along, improvisation turning time into a dream of freedom, romance, possibility.