Paul Myers (musician)
| Paul Myers | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 November 1960 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Indie |
| Occupation(s) | Biographer |
| Associated acts | The Gravelberrys, The Paul & John |
Paul Myers (born 11 November 1960 in Toronto) is a San Francisco-based indie rock songwriter, musician, journalist, and author. Until 2006, Myers worked as a musician and journalist in Toronto and Vancouver, where he became a Canadian television and radio personality. He is the older brother of comedian and actor Mike Myers.
Myers was the front man and songwriter for the band The Gravelberrys, which had a Canadian alternative hit in the early 1990s with "Wonder Where You Are Tonight." The group, which took its name from a reference in The Flintstones, disbanded in 1995, after several complete lineup changes.
Myers continues to write, record and play sporadic shows, appearing since 2014 as The Paul & John, a duo formed by Myers and John Moremen, performing with drummers that have included D. J. Bonebrake and Dawn Richardson. The Paul & John have released one album, Inner Sunset (2014).
Between 2001 and 2006, Myers was omnipresent in the media scene of Vancouver, British Columbia, holding a variety of positions during this time. Myers was the musician judge on the Canwest Global reality TV series, Popstars: The One, and blogged about his experience for the Vancouver Province.
Myers and Patrick Maliha were known to viewers of Shaw TV's Urban Rush as The Movie Guys, appearing in a popular weekly segment which ran from 2003 until 2006, when Myers left Vancouver for the San Francisco area. Myers was also briefly a regular cultural pundit on CTV's The Vicki Gabereau Show, a national daytime program which taped out of Vancouver.
For one year (from 2003 to 2004), Myers hosted a talk radio show on CHMJ (then branded as "MOJO Radio") in Vancouver. The show was first known as One, Two, Three with Paul Myers (after its 1:00 to 3:00 time slot), before being rechristened The Paul Myers Show. The show attained cult status, and Myers played host to diverse guests such as They Might Be Giants, Matthew Sweet, Seth MacFarlane, Errol Morris, Randy Bachman, and Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick, as well as local musicians and touring authors. CHMJ, a Corus radio station, abandoned broader talk radio in 2004 in favour of an all-sports format. Myers joked that despite his acquisition of a Vancouver Canucks jersey, his culture- and music-based topics no longer fit on the sports channel.
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