As a staple of Melbourne’s live music scene, Paul Gadsby could turn up in almost any situation - playing bass with the bluegrass-inspired Uncle Bill, or backing any number of other artists on a number of instruments.

What he does is unobtrusive and right. Gadsby is an integral part of the rootsy, adult music scene that manages to exist in the southern capital in slightly better shape than elsewhere.

Inside the head and heart of this lanky, taciturn bloke, however; is a highly commercial pop music pulse that is now finally been given vent.

The opener Dreaming is a rollicking good-time, vaguely Beatlesque piece, with Gadsby’s light high tenor vocal bringing to mind Sting.

Comparisons continue in the equally catchy Dumb Pump, I Want You Back and I Found Love; with Gadsby studiously avoiding the obvious for some delightful melodic twists and turns.

There is more on this album - funky stuff such as Next Step, the bluesy Easy to Fall and the jazzy Break a Leg, but Paul’s pop sensibility is what distinguishes him from the pack.

Some of Melbourne’s finest players help out and make So Far so good.

Keith Glass...MELBOURNE SUNDAY HERALD SUN

"So Far" is available now at Chaos Music Online, where you can also download two songs in mp3 format.

For information on other CD's that Paul has played on see History