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You might know him for his roles in The Bourne Ultimatum or Arctic Monkeys’ video Leave Before the Lights Come On but this week Paddy Considine has given his band, Riding The Low, exposure with the release of an EP titled They Will Rob You Of Your Gifts.

It might come as a shock to fans of his work but the acclaimed actor, writer and director revealed he feels more at home doing music: "In the other job I do, the acting thing, there’s a lot of uncertainty in it for me and a lot of strange insecurity."

"I almost find I’m sometimes embarrassed to talk about it, whereas with the band I’m a little bit more defiant.

"I’m like ‘No, you know what? This is good, I love it and if you don’t like it then, you don’t like it’," he told 6 Music.

"In the other job I do, the acting thing, there's a lot of uncertainty in it for me and a lot of strange insecurity."

Paddy Considine

Riding The Low have been together for nearly four years and written four albums, which have been kept fairly under wraps outside of their gigs.

Paddy said they’ve been known to have some "out of hand", raucous shows and it would be wrong for people to pigeon-hole their sound as straight-forward, northern indie-rock.

"With Easy On Our Own, the flagship track, it’s got that about it but it’s not where we were coming from really," he explained. "I personally, and the guys in the band now are influenced by 90s indie rock, but American stuff, mainly Guided By Voices’ singer Robert Pollard, but with a bit of REM in there, and Pavement, and stuff like that at times."

No stranger to the music industry, Paddy was behind the story for the music video of Arctic Monkeys’ song Leave Before the Lights Come On.

The Sheffield band also features in Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee, the latest Shane Meadows film which Paddy starred in, but he admitted they are not very close.

"People then think you’re best buddies you know? It’s really strange," he explained. "I’ve only met them a couple of times, but they’re really great guys and I got on very well with them and had the good crack with them."