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city in the world when everything was on the Rock to have a base from which that’s going to be completely different and going on there and we reached the UK to establish a potential vocation hasn’t happened in Gibraltar before. 40, but we’ve always been four bums from We want to keep bringing someand work with highly acclaimed “To make it Gibraltar who no one thought would make thing different and exciting that will international artists. enjoyable it. We never had any favours, it was all fulfill Gibraltarians’ expectations and fun, you of entertainment that we should done off our own back. The most beautiful Experience in the industry need to plan be getting here in 2016.’ Big Man thing to come out of this is the belief that really well.” anything is possible.’ Paul’s blatant fervour Entertainment boasts a knowledge With independent events orand pushy disposition leaves me unsurand experience within the industry, ganisations springing up across prised by how much success the band has their prime objective, Paul claims, is the Gibraltar, and an abundance of shows seen through its six album releases, and being offered to the public, I probe Paul on enjoyment of the punters and the artists abundance of shows, all over the globe. involved. ‘We’re all about running things what he and Big Man Entertainment, can ‘From the word go, the idea was in a way that perhaps people here aren’t offer the Rock. ‘We’re looking at always to play live, that’s where we accustomed to. Between the three of us diversifying into fashion events “I have cut our teeth. Since those early days we’ve put on concerts in all different manand the next thing we can do met many in 1996, we’ve ended up supporting brick walls, anybody and everybody from Bowie and these to Metallica, to the Melvins to Black need to be Sabbath, to Guns and Roses.’ The boys never forgot their roots, coming knocked back to play in Gibraltar on a number down.” of occasions. Funnily enough, my first ever-live concert was a Breed 77 show held in Casemates Square on my fifteenth birthday. Coincidentally, that was also my first mosh pit. In September 2015, the band headlined the annual National Day concert, marking it a farewell show for Paul, who had taken the difficult decision to leave the band and move back to Gibraltar to be with his family. Although he returned to the band briefly, they soon after agreed to take a time out. ‘I’ve come back to Gibraltar in the spirit of collaboration and unfortunately, I have met many brick walls, and these need to be knocked down.’ Paul’s biggest ambition now is to initiate a locally based, entirely professional recording studio for music and film artists 60
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