Band bio - Paolo Nutini

If you think you know Paolo Nutini, think again. His 2.3 million selling 2006 debut album, ‘These Streets', established the young Scotsman as a leading light of singer-songwriters and Paolo's extraordinary follow up ‘Sunny Side Up' has already sold 2 million copies around the worldwide - and recently it collected the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Best Album 2010.

Sunny Side Up has been a long-standing member of the Top Ten since its release in June 2009 - Paolo was the biggest selling male artist in 2009 and in 2010 it's currently the second biggest selling album of the year, spending the first six months of the year in the Top 10 and its been at No.1 three times already.
 
Paolo was nominated for Best Album and Best Male at the 2010 BRIT Awards, Sunny Side Up was the winner of Best International Album at the Irish Meteor Awards as well as being nominated for Best International Male, Paolo also played two Royal Albert Hall shows in Spring 2010, the BBC Radio 1 BIG Weekend and has a European Summer Tour, including the major UK Festivals.

 

Paolo wrote ‘Sunny Side Up' and co-produced it with Ethan Johns. A richly idiosyncratic, passionate and uplifting musical journey, it sounds so organic and timeless that it could have been hewn from the hills. From the exuberant ragtime of new single ‘Pencil Full Of Lead' to the rolling soul of ‘Coming Up Easy', the heart-tearing Stax balladeering of first single ‘Candy' to the joyous folky singalong ‘Simple Things', it marks Paolo's emergence as a truly individual artist, following his own wayward yet inspirationally musical path.