Bands and accompanying musicians of Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly's bands and members
Genres	acoustic, folk, Australian rock
Years active	1974–current
Labels	Mushroom A&M EMI Capitol
Associated acts	Paul Kelly and the Dots Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls Paul Kelly and the Messengers Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys Uncle Bill Professor Ratbaggy Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions Stardust Five

Members	Paul Kelly Dan Kelly Bree Van Reyk Zoe Hauptmann J. Walker

Past members	see former members list below

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 June 2013, Paul Kelly's current band members are Bree Van Reyk on drums, Zoe Hauptmann on bass guitar/backing vocals, his nephew Dan Kelly on lead guitar/backing vocals and J. Walker on guitar.

Members arranged chronologically:

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:

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