Paul Kean
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Paul Kean, a New Zealand musician and music producer, first played in the Basket Cases (aka "The Detroit Haemorroids").
When "The Enemy" lost Mick Dawson, Paul Kean joined as bass player along with Jane Walker on keyboards to form Toy Love - 1979/80. A compilation of Toy Love singles and their self titled album along with a 2nd disc of demos was released on "Flying Nun" in 2005. Paul then went on to do live sound engineering for many of the Flying Nun acts, notably "The Clean", "Chills", "Verlaines", "Stones" and "Sneaky Feelings".
Kean managed and produced two (2) "Playthings" singles and an album finally joining them on bass in 1981/82.
A brief collaboration with Robert Scott in "Thanks to Llamas" followed with the formation of The Bats along with Kaye Woodward and Malcolm Grant who have gone on to produce 6 albums, 2 compilations and a host of EP's and singles. Most produced or co-produced by Paul Kean who also handled most of the mixing.
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"3 singles, an album, was it 5 videos, numerous TV appearances, demos in 5 (?) different studios and about 500 gigs - all in 18 months. phew!!" (see [1])
