Paul Roberts (musician) studio CDs. Soulsec was in existence as a side-project for some of the later years Paul was still with The Stranglers. Paul played the role of Pop Larkin in the world premiere of "The Darling Buds of May-Perfick". This was a musical based on H. E. Bates' novel "The Darling Buds of May", written by David Burton, formerly a member of the cast of "Only Fools & Horses". The show ran for a week in April 2008 at The Kings Theatre, Southsea as a trial to see whether the company could raise enough interest to finance a West End production.
H. E. Bates provided the inspiration for his stories. Bates was a great lover of the countryside and this was exemplified in two volumes of essays entitled "Through the Woods" and "Down the River". Both have been reprinted numerous times. He discarded his first novel, written when he was in his late teens, but his second, and the first one to be published, "The Two Sisters", was inspired by one of his midnight walks, which took him to the small village of Farndish. There, late at night, he saw a light burning in a cottage window and it was this that triggered the