Bands and accompanying musicians of Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly is an Australian rock musician. He started his career in 1974 in Hobart, Tasmania, and has performed as a solo artist, in bands as a member or has led bands named after himself. Some backing bands recorded their own material under alternate names, Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five, with Kelly as an individual member. As of September 2017, Paul Kelly's current band members are Cameron Bruce on keyboards and piano, Vika and Linda Bull on backing vocals and lead vocals, his nephew Dan Kelly on lead guitar and backing vocals, Peter Luscombe on drums and Bill McDonald on bass guitar.

Current members

Paul Kelly

Dan Kelly

J. Walker

Zoe Hauptmann

She has toured with the artists including Missy Higgins, Neil Finn, Katie Noonan, Tim Rogers, Bill Chambers, Justine Clarke, All Our Exes Live in Texas, Lanie Lane, Lisa Mitchell and Wendy Mathews. Hauptmann first toured with Kelly during his national tour with Neil Finn in 2012.

Bree Van Reyk

Former bands/members

High Rise Bombers (1977–1978)

Members arranged chronologically:

Martin Armiger – guitar, vocals
Lee 'Fred' Cass – bass guitar
Chris Dyson – guitar
Sally Ford – saxophone
John Lloyd – drums
Keith Shadwick – saxophone
Chris Langman – guitar
Paul Kelly and the Dots (1978–1982)

Members arranged chronologically:

Paul Gadsby – bass guitar
Chris Langman – guitar
John Lloyd – drums
Chris Malhebe – guitar
Chris Worrall – guitar
Chris Dyson – guitar, vocals
Tony Thornton – drums
Alan Brooker – bass
Tim Brosnan – guitar
Michael Holmes – guitar
Maurice Frawley – guitar
Huk Treloar – drums
Alex Formosa – drums
Paul Kelly Band (1983–1984)

Members arranged chronologically:

Michael Armiger – guitar
Chris Coyne – saxophone
Maurice Frawley – guitar
Greg Martin – drums
Michael Barclay – drums
Graham Lee – guitar, pedal steel guitar
Steve Connolly – guitar
Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls/Messengers (1985–1991)

After relocating from Melbourne to Sydney in 1985, Paul Kelly recorded and released a solo album, Post. Kelly then began to play and record with a full-time band, which included Michael Armiger on bass guitar, Michael Barclay on drums, Steve Connolly on guitar, eventually bassist Jon Schofield, and keyboardist Peter Bull joined. Through a joke based on Lou Reed's song "Walk on the Wild Side", the band became known as Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls. The line-up of the Coloured Girls changed rapidly with some stability late in 1985 as Barclay, Bull, Connolly and Schofield. In September 1986 Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls released their debut album, Gossip. When released in North America and Europe by A&M Records in July 1987, the band changed its name, for international releases, to Paul Kelly and the Messengers due to possible racist connotations. Subsequent releases were under the name Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls for Australasia and Paul Kelly and the Messengers for international releases until 1989's So Much Water So Close to Home when all releases were by Paul Kelly and the Messengers until disbanding in 1991.
Members arranged chronologically:

Michael Armiger – bass guitar
Michael Barclay – drums, vocals
Steve Connolly – guitar
Chris Coyne – saxophone 1985
Ian Rilen – bass guitar 1985
Rick Grossman – bass
Jon Schofield – bass guitar
Peter Bull – keyboards
Spencer P. Jones – guitar
Billy Pommer Jnr – drums
Noel Funicello – bass
Paul Kelly's Band (1995–1997)

Members arranged chronologically:

Shane O'Mara – guitar
Bruce Haymes – keyboards
Stephen Hadley – bass
Peter Luscombe – drums
Spencer P. Jones – guitar 1996
Professor Ratbaggy (1999–2002)