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 story. At this time he was working briefly for the local newspaper in Wellingborough, a job which he hated, and then later at a local shoe-making warehouse, where he had time to write; in fact the whole of this first novel was written there. This was sent to, and rejected by, eight or nine publishers until Jonathan Cape accepted it on the advice of its highly respected Reader, Edward Garnett. Bates was then twenty years old. More novels, collections of short stories, essays, and articles followed, but did not pay well. During World War II, he was commissioned into the