PADDINGTON

The story of Paddington has come to an end, after playing a visible role in the Finnish CCM scene between 1997-2011. To summarize its muscial craftmanship, the band proudly presents the final recording "Not Consumed". Five new songs and remixed tracks from previous albums highlight the bands musical journey.Note! "Not Consumed" is only digitally distributed, so please stay tuned for its future appearance on iTunes!

Paddington bio

Finnish handicraft - pop/rock band Paddington delivers music that is genuine. With listener-friendly melodies, dirty guitars and punchy analogue synthesizers, Paddington takes the listener on a journey from the retro 70s to the freshness of today, without sacrificing a distinguished sound and flavour.

Along with the mission to make music with a positvie energy and an elevating spirit, Paddington wants also to reach its audience on deeper level.
Through lyrics that deal with everday-life experiences, from the point of view of a Christian, the band wishes to give the listeners a glimpse of hope.

The band which started in 1997, has during the years toured festivals in Finland and Sweden. In April 2002, Paddington appeared at the annual Lumen festival in Slovakia. In November 2001, Paddington played at the “Maata Näkyvissä”
festival in Turku, Finland – the biggest Christian music festival in the Nordic countries. Since then the band has visited several high profile festivals in Finland.
In November 2000, the band reached the final in a music competition during the Rock The Globe event in the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.
In July 2003 the band visited “Skærgårds music & mission festival” in
Norway. The festival is among biggest in the Nordic countries.
In March 2006 the band performed at the Promikon-Messe 2006 in Mannheim, Germany and re-appered at Promikon in 2007. In September '07, the band also played in the German cities of Simmern and Passau.
Later the same month, Paddington releseased its fourth CD, "Blessed & Brokenhearted".

During the years Paddington has also done appearances on television. In 1998, a music video was produced for the Finnish Broadcasting company YLE. In the year of 2000 the band performed live in TV at the "Gospel Countdown" concert. In 2003 Paddington played live in studon at the talkshow Magnet, produced by YLE.

Since the release of their latest CD, the band has toured in Finland and Sweden and also made their first visit to Swizerland, where they played at the Plug Festival in Lausanne.
In the month of April of 2010, Paddington performed at the Palm Rock festival in Passau (Germany) and at the Easter festival, Festival de Paques, in the city of Chartres in France.
The band has currently released their second full-length CD, "Not Consumed".