Bob Paterson

"BP" or Windmill Bob" found music very early on in life. He grew up in Bletchingley in rural Surrey and gained a lot of his music taste from his elder brother Andrew who introduced him to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon and The Beatles.

He discovered radio presenting when he started college at UEA in 1990. His radio heroes include Johnnie Walker and Bob Harris (both of whom he has worked extensively with in the past). He presented his first radio show on Livewire 945AM in January 1991 and since then has presented shows on Cracker FM (Norwich), London Network Radio, CMR, Radio Avalon (Glastonbury Festival Radio), Ritz 1035AM and Mean Country. He currently broadcasts on SpydaRadio (Internet Radio) and is a regular contributor on BBC Radio Suffolk.

With Johnnie Walker and Bob Harris he has researched for shows on Radio 1, Radio 2 and GLR (RIP).

Outside of radio, Bob runs a live music booking agency (eastcentralone) which he set up with Steve Fernie in July 1999. For three years previous to this he promoted live music in several London venues and in July 2000 he co-founded the website NetRhythms with Sue Cavendish.

Kate Jacobs embarked on a successful solo trip in October 1999 and returned in September 2000 with her 5 month old baby, playing to a bigger audience (aided by appearances on BBC Radio 2 Johnnie Walker Show and Radio 4 Woman's Hour); Dr Robert went out on the road acoustically in November 1999 and May 2000. He returned with his band in May and June 2001 to promote his new record "Birds Gotta Fly". Colin Vearncombe was on the road in April 2000 for the first time in 7 years and toured again in October 2000.

The agency has grown since those early days and has started to represent artists outside of the label, not only for representation in the UK but for the whole of Europe.

Representing (the country in brackets refers to the artists' country of residence, not the area of booking):

THE ARLENES (US) - Europe http://www.thearlenes.com
ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS (US) - UK and Ireland http://www.asylumstreetspankers.com
DANNY BARNES (US) - Europe http://www.dannybarnes.com
BLUE RODEO (CAN) - Europe http://www.bluerodeo.com
TIM EASTON (US) - UK and Ireland http://www.timeaston.com through Belmont Bookings
HOMESPUN (Sam Brown and Dave Rotheray) (UK) - UK http://www.homespunrecordings.com
RICH HOPKINS & LUMINARIOS (US) - UK http://www.sanjacintorecords.com through JTC Jaeker Tours & Concerts
THE HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN (US) - Europe http://www.hotclubofcowtown.com until July 1st 2004
MICHAEL HURLEY (US) - UK http://www.snockonews.com through Blue Navigator
KATE JACOBS (US) - Europe http://www.katejacobsmusic.com
DOUG KERSHAW (US) - UK http://www.dougkershaw.com
CHRIS KNIGHT (US) - UK and Ireland http://www.chrisknight.net through Belmont Bookings
MARY LEE'S CORVETTE (US) - Europe http://www.maryleescorvette.com
MESSENGER (NOR) - Europe http://www.messenger-music.com
TIM O'BRIEN (US) - Europe http://www.timobrien.net
MARK OLSON and THE CREEKDIPPERS feat. VICTORIA WILLIAMS (US) - UK and Ireland http://www.creekdipper.com through JTC Jaeker Tours & Concerts
DARRYL PURPOSE (US) - UK and Ireland http://www.darrylpurpose.com
THE RESENTMENTS (US) - UK and Ireland http://www.theresentments.com through Belmont Bookings
TOM RUSSELL (US) - UK, Ireland, Sweden and Benelux http://www.tomrussell.com
TODD SNIDER (US) - UK and Ireland http://www.toddsnider.com
THE SORENTINOS (US) - UK and Ireland http://www.thesorentinos.com
CHIP TAYLOR and CARRIE RODRIGUEZ (US) - UK http://www.trainwreckrecords.com
GREG TROOPER (US) - UK http://www.gregtrooper.com
LAURA VEIRS (US) - Europe http://www.lauraveirs.com
DAR WILLIAMS (US) - Europe http://www.darwilliams.com
We also booked the May 2002 and June 2003 UK tour for CHUCK PROPHET (US) - overseen by his European agency Paperclip Agency.

His interests are curry, drinking, going to gigs, women, windmills, relaxing, being outside - cycling, running and walking (sometimes at the same time). His heroes include John Cleese, Ian Botham, Henry Blofeld, John Lennon, Lucinda Williams and last but not least Tommy Cooper.

He moved to Suffolk in April 2002 and hopes to start promoting live music again with The Suffolk Live Music Club from April 2004.