Paul Rooney has been played on NTS in shows including Mark Leckey, featured first on 26 July 2017. Songs played include J For Juliet, Lucy Over Lancashire and Bay of Biscay.

The words of Paul Rooney's sung and spoken pieces deal with everyday subjects that are made strange via lo-fi post-punk experimental-folk music or by narrative daftness, stressing the absurdity of our attempts to make meaning out of the world.

From 1998 to 2000 he released three lo-fi punk pop albums as the band ‘Rooney’ (see http://www.last.fm/label/Common+Culture), featuring in John Peel’s Festive Fifty in 1998, as well as recording a session for Peel's Radio 1…