With a music
style that has been compared to Ben Harper and Paul Weller,
Seán released his debut album entitled Loosely Based On
A True Story in Ireland in April 2004.
Since then Sean has been bringing his blend of upbeat acoustic
rock to audiences across the country.
Seán has scored innumerable tour support slots with major artists.
Tracy Chapman asked Seán to open for her in Belfast. Following
his performance that night, she invited him to support her on
her three Dublin shows at the Olympia.
Ladsysmith Black Mambazo founder and lead man Joseph Shabalala
blessed Seán before the first of the four gigs he supported
them on and then invited Seán to join them on stage for some
Zulu warrior dancing!
The Hot House Flowers asked Seán
on-stage to perform on Don’t Go. During Seán’s support slots,
Liam joined in on-stage to play bodhran and sing backing vocals on one
of Seán’s tracks.
Seán has also
guested with Diana Krall, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Huey Lewis and the
News and the legendary Bo Diddley, who bragged to Seán
that he was the original rap star and that he had been playing rock
and roll long before Elvis. His advice to Seán was to keep on doing
what he was doing and most of all to continue to be himself!
Hailing from Donegal,
Seán and a band of musicians got together with producer Dave
Molloy in 2003, to create the album Loosely Based On A True
Story. The other members of the band are Satya Darcy on
drums, Farid Basir on electric guitar, Darren Bowler on bass
and Esther Kjaer Nielsen on percussion and backing vocals.
Seán has also made musical contributions to two films: Bang
Bang a murder mystery set in the west of Ireland and Eve
a short film on Christmas through the eyes of a child by Declan
Hannigan.