Paul Halmshaw also known as "Hammy" (born 1965) is a British musician who founded Peaceville Records, which signed some of the most infamous death, black, and doom metal and crust punk bands worldwide in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s.
He was raised in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, where he began playing drums at school and became a 'punk rocker'. He formed the band Instigators with his school friend Simon Mooney (guitar).
