O.K. I know! This page needs updating badly. But here are the facts on the Danish connection...

Seán is now living in Copenhagen where he is playing with Thea Damgaard (vocals/double bass) and Rasmus Skovmund (percussion). As you can see we still have to get some information about Thea and Rasmus on this site. Until then you can read some trivia on the musicians Sean has played with in Ireland.
 



Satya on drums
Satya D’Arcy is from Co. Clare. His family have a strong musical tradition and his father was a session drummer. Satya formerly played with Brando who enjoyed great success winning In the City and charting in Ireland. Introduced by a mutual friend, Satya jammed with the band and decided to join.

Farid on electric guitar
Farid Basir comes from Malaysia. Encouraged by his father, he taught himself to play guitar at the age of 15. His musical heart lies in rock and blues and his guitar heroes include Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, Gary Moore, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Eric Johnson.

Esther on percussion and backing vocals.
So how did the daughter of a Danish female priest end up singing in an Irish acoustic rock band? Esther Kjaer Nielsen is from Copenhagen and comes from a long line of choral singers. She has always had an interest in Irish music and moved here three years ago to experience the Irish way of life. Before long she was singing in the Dublin based chamber choir, The Mornington Singers and playing bodhrán in local trad. sessions. Esther joined Seán and the band for a bit of a session one night and hasn’t left since!


Darren on bass
Darren Bowler, who hails from Dublin, learned piano at an early age and moved to guitar and then bass guitar. After wisely ruling out a singing career he stuck with the latter instrument. Darren has quite an eclectic musical taste ranging from Primus to Jaco Pastorius to Tool to Chick Corea to Jane's Addiction to Audioslave. Not happy with his 4-string bass guitar, he invested in a fretless bass, an 8-string sparkly-gold bass and finally ended up with a standard 4-string.






 

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