Paul Kappa is a Liverpool

Liverpool

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 based singer, songwriter

Songwriter

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 and guitarist

Guitarist

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Kappa started playing guitar aged 10 and formed groups in school and late teens when at Southport Art College with
Roger Jones (bass player

Bass Player

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 and lyricist

Lyricist

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), called Circle of Poverty latterly The Cathedral.

Other bands he is known to have played hundreds of pub and club gigs in Liverpool and surrounding areas in the late 1980s and early 1990s are The Blimey Brothers and Candy Store Rock. Venues such as The Firehouse and Quadrant Park in Bootle

Bootle

Bootle is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England, and a 'Post town' in the L postcode area. Formally known as Bootle-cum-Linacre, the town is 4 miles  to the north of Liverpool city centre, and has a total resident population of 77,640.Historically part of...

 and The Cumberland Tavern in Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

 city centre were common venues for rock bands at that time.

In 1994, Paul Kappa became the winner of the Liverpool Echo Best Newcomer Award. when with roots and rockabilly trio from Liverpool Cat Scratch Fever http://freespace.virgin.net/death.western/ with Tony Doyle on contra-bass and Tony Dolman playing drums.

Cat Scratch Fever signed to Independent label Way Out West Records in London, England in 1994, inspired by founder Rick Goldstein, making the album Death Western (1996) and the Big Bang!http://www.raucousrecords.com/default.aspx?searchFor=cat+scratch+fever on Raucous Records in 1997.
Highlights of C.S.F. live performances were appearances at Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival

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 1997 and Cropredy 1998.

Following the collapse of Cat Scratch Fever, Kappa spent some months touring with 1980s pop star Pete Wylie

Pete Wylie

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 in a band featuring drummer and bass player Mike Joyce

Mike Joyce

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 and Andy Rourke

Andy Rourke

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 from Manchester band The Smiths

The Smiths

The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...

 whilst signed to Columbia records

Columbia Records

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By 2002, after experimental lineups, lasting almost three years, The Amazing Kappa was born:

The Amazing Kappa (also known as Kappa) is a Rock and Roll

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 / Soul

Soul music

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 / Funk

Funk

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 band from Liverpool

Liverpool

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, England

England

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. Its members are Paul Kappa (Guitar

Guitar

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 and vocals

Singing

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), Martin Byrne (Bass Guitar

Bass guitar

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 and Vocals) and Tony Smith (since 2006) (drums

Drum kit

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 and percussion

Percussion instrument

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). (Before 2006 the drum seat was occupied by Tony O'Keeffe)

The Amazing Kappa made their studio album Living @ the End of the World in 2003, followed by Accelerando; the live album recorded in the Cavern, Liverpool in 2004. A DVD of the show, Guitar Hero written by Paul Kappa, was produced in 2005. A compilation album Kuriosity was also released featuring unheard Kappa material from 1991 onwards as well as unreleased tracks from Cat Scratch Fever

Cat Scratch Fever

Cat Scratch Fever is an album by Ted Nugent released in 1977, as well as the name of the album's title song. "Death By Misadventure" recounts the death of Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. Guitarist Derek St. Holmes came back during this album after he left...

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The Amazing Kappa released the studio albums, Electrical Stormhttp://www.overplay.com/GetReviewArticle.aspx?ReviewID=566 recorded in Chicago

Chicago

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 U.S.A at Steve Albini

Steve Albini

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's Electrical Audio Studios working with grammy winning producer Jim Tullio http://www.electrical.com/index.php in 2006 and the solo acoustic album from Paul Kappa Mountains of the Moon http://mushythebeatle.blogspot.com/2010/02/paul-kappa-mountains-of-moon-kappa-band.html, as well as a live album,and DVD entitled Sola Boat, (now deleted) recorded at the event Kappa in Koncert at the Pacific Road Arts Centre, Birkenhead

Birkenhead

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, Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

, England

England

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 in 2007.

Paul Kappa worked in mid 2007 producing tracks which were never used for CBS

CBS

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 Early Show http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/earlyshow/main500202.shtml working in Atlanta with Rodney Mills

Rodney Mills

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 producer and engineer for 38 special, Atlanta Rhythm Section

Atlanta Rhythm Section

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, Gregg Allman

Gregg Allman

Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman, is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia...

, James Brown

James Brown

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, The Doobie Brothers

The Doobie Brothers

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 and Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band prominent in spreading Southern Rock during the 1970s.Originally formed as the "Noble Five" in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964, the band rose to worldwide recognition on the basis of its driving live performances and signature tune, Freebird...

 amongst others.

2008 saw the release of The Amazing Kappa studio album Bok Rok http://www.overplay.com/GetReviewArticle.aspx?ReviewID=714.
In 2010 Paul Kappa released a studio acoustic album Book of Two Ways a collection of orchestrated songs, featuring vocals by Kathleen Wildman on two tracks.

In December 2010 The Amazing Kappa released their fourth studio album Taxi For Voltaire

Voltaire

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http://www.kappaband.com/, recorded at Whitewood Studioshttp://www.whitewoodrecordingstudio.com/ in Liverpool and mixed and mastered at Will Schillinger's Pilot Recording Studioshttp://www.pilotrecording.com/ in Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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U.S.A.

The Amazing Kappa has appeared on BBC television and radio, ITV, as well as MTV, WGN Chicago and Danish radio, and performed in England, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland, Sweden and the United States.