Julian Gaskell is a British multi-instrumentalist, band leader, composer and singer-songwriter, who spent several years writing, recording and performing in Manchester, and is now based in Falmouth, England. He has performed and recorded solo, as well as being a founder member of a number of bands, including Loafer, Icons of Poundland, Leigh Delamere & the Gordanos and Julian Gaskell and his Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.