Since debuting in 1982 with the dreamy single “Lions In My Own Garden,” English singer-songwriter Paddy McAloon and his band Prefab Sprout have distinguished themselves from their UK contemporaries by ...

“My relationship with prog is a complex thing, which has to do with my feelings about the 70s,” muses Paddy McAloon. “That period was very, very interesting. I reject the whole typical BBC documentary ...

Of all the material Sony Music could have reissued of Prefab Sprout, the ever-evolving pop project led by singer-songwriter Paddy McAloon, it seemed unlikely the label would have directed their ...

ATRIBUTE night in celebration of the life and works of Durham based singer-songwriter Paddy McAloon and his band Prefab Sprout, will come to Newcastle later this month in support of St Oswald’s ...

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Plenty of artists would be thrilled about being feted on a 2-CD anthology, but Paddy McAloon, songwriter for elusive English ensemble Prefab Sprout, is as effervescent as tap water concerning Prefab ...

Prefab Sprout's second album, Steve McQueen, was originally released in the U.S. under the title Two Wheels Good. Back in the summer of 1985, I was a DJ at an alternative rock station in the Baltimore ...

Prefab Sprout have announced vinyl reissues of three studio albums and one compilation. New pressings of their 1984 debut Swoon, 1988’s commercial breakthrough From Langley Park to Memphis, 1990’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A vivid study of everyday romantic discord – one that turns particularly poignant in the deceptively cheeky “Horsin’ Around,” as scathing a self-analysis of ...