Paul Toohill

Paul Francis Toohill, born 1969-02-22 in Sheffield, England, is the former vocalist and lyricist for the Italian futurepop band XP8 [http://www.gothtronic.com/?page=23&band=555] . He is also the main singer for Muscle And Hate [http://www.nilaihah.com/muscle_and_hate.htm] .

Moved to Rome, Italy in 1989, he is believed to be the first Italian DJ focused on Industrial music. Additionally to a DJ career, he was promoting various artists on the local dark culture scene. As tour promoter he organised concerts by bands like Einstuerzende Neubaten, Test Dept, Legendary Pink Dots, Cop Shoot Cop, The Young Gods, Clock DVA, and others.During the mid-nineties he was official photographer for Clock DVA.Soon after the move he formed XP8, together with Marco Visconti and Marko Resurreccion. Paul contributed with vocals, lyrics, music and energetic on-stage performance to this band. In 2005, he contributed most vocals to a Nitzer Ebb tribute project created by Sebastian Komor (Icon of Coil), Muscle And Hate. In 2007 Paul Toohill left the group [http://www.regenmag.com/News-3106-XP8.html] to pursue his solo project, entitled [http://www.coresect.com/generator/main.htm Generator] [http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=33968_0_2_0_C] . According to Paul Toohill's personal journal, the split was acrimonious [http://xp8.livejournal.com/36627.html?nc=15] .Paul is a journalist for the Italian magazine Roma C'è [http://www.romace.it] which is the Roman equivalent of Time Out magazine. He is responsible for the English section of the magazine, "Week In Rome" where he writes about concerts, exhibitions, restaurants, shops and events in Rome [http://www.romace.it/site/englishsection.php] . Paul does not smoke.Fact|date=June 2007

Discography

With XP8

*Forgive (2003)

*Forgiven(n) (2004)

*RE_Productions: Das Licht + Wet Dream EP (2004)

*Synthphony REMIXed! Vol.4 (2005)

*Forgiven(n) Remastered USA Version (2005)

*Hrs:Min:Sec (2005)

*Infact1on Two (2006)

External links

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/paultoohil Paul on flickr.com]
* [http://www.coresect.com Paul Toohill's personal website]
* [http://www.coresect.com/generator/main.htm Generator]
* [http://www.side-line.com/interviews_comments.php?id=12054_0_16_0_C Interview with Paul Toohill for Sideline Magazine]
* [http://www.romace.it/site/pdf/english/thisweek664.pdf Example section of the Roma C'è magazine where Paul works as a journalist]