The Paddingtons

The Paddingtons

The Paddingtons are an indie rock group from Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. The band forms in 2004 and is active from then to the present. Its line-up includes Tom Atkin, Stuee Bevan, Grant Dobbs, Joshua Hubbard, Lloyd Dobbs and Martin Hines; in the band’s earlier line-up, Atkin sings, Hines plays guitar, Hubbard plays guitar, and brothers Lloyd Dobbs and Grant Dobbs play bass and drums.

The band signs to Alan McGee’s Poptones label. It first builds a reputation through touring around the Hull area, playing venues including the Welly Club, the New Adelphi Club and the Railway pub in Cottingham. Pete Doherty supports the group and they tour with his band Babyshambles.

The Paddingtons’ debut album, First Comes First, is produced by Owen Morris, who also produces Oasis’ Definitely Maybe. The band later completes a second album titled No Mundane Options. A track from that release, “Stand Down”, is made available through iTunes on Mama Bear Records. The group also plays a small national tour to test new material, and appears with The Cribs at the Birmingham Academy and with Dirty Pretty Things at The Forum and at the Spice Festival at the Hackney Empire. When Carl Barat of Dirty Pretty Things breaks his collarbone while in Taipei, the band recruits Hubbard to play guitar while he recovers.