Hi, I’m Australian singer songwriter, Seamus Anthony

If you like Nick Cave, Tom Waits, or Leonard Cohen  then you may well dig my low-down,  grumpy-old-bugger music with a twist of black funny.

MUSIC

December 2009: “Friggin’ Christmas”

January 2008: “Dogs May Bark”

Click here to listen or download free

Click here to buy my CD or here to buy it on iTunes

Click here to listen to my music free at myspace

Click here to check out the rockin’ 90s band I was in, Reckoning.

WRITING

Click here to check out Rebel Zen the left-of-centre personal development blog I co-write with my mate Steve .

Or go to this website’s blog, which is more about what it means to be a musican, what it feels like, especially to be a fat or ugly or unpopular or frustrated glow-in-the-dark musician.

Or go to this website’s Writing page for an incomplete list of links to articles and short stories by moi.

BIOGRAPHY

I was brought up by a colorful mixture of free-love hippies and born-again fundamentalists - but somehow I survived intact.

Then straight out of school, I cut my teeth rocking the town of Adelaide, South Australia during the nineties in cult band Reckoning. We did pretty good, for a bunch of slacker freaks - until the hammer came down (you can read the story here).

By the age of twenty-two, Reckoning had imploded and I was one feral freak indeed. On the run from the law, under cover of darkness, and wearing clothing inappropriate for the weather, I moved to Melbourne, Australia and turned to managing a health cafe whilst simultaneously struggling with a substance abuse challenge.

At the time, the irony was completely lost on me.

I then developed a passion for psychedelic meditation which enabled me to get back on the good-foot, and subsequently joined the band Quill. We had some high times and great souvlakis but the heat was closing in, so I stowed away on a rusty freighter and went adventuring through South East Asia until I got stuck - cashless and dazed by the bright lights of Japan.

After doing solo gigs in Tokyo to pay my way home (and doing some more meditation … and getting drunk a lot), I cruised back to Melbourne, where I was welcomed home by a pyscho who beat the living shit out of me at Greasy Joe’s in St Kilda. Once my broken bones healed, I spent a few years playing in the front bars of Melbourne, honing my craft, my sense of humour and always writing new songs.

Along they way I have run a nightclub, poured beers in hives of scum and villainy, made coffee in countless Melbourne cafes, had many articles professionally published in print and on the web, wrote a thriller novel (unpublished, possibly crap), been held up at knife point by a leather-clad biker dwarf, taught meditation, travelled to France, Ireland, Belgium, England, Malaysia, Vanuatu, and up the Australian East Coast, worked in the corporate sector (yuk), and become a father (yay!). I now pretend to work from home in Search Engine Marketing but really I am very busy raising my music career from the ashes of the 90s like a some kind of slacker-phoenix with a headache.

I hope you enjoy my songs which you can listen to for free here on Myspace and which are available to buy on CD or in mp3 format via iTunes. And if possible, come along to one of my shows where, weirdly, because I haven’t tried enough different things, you’ll catch the new comedy flavour my gigs have taken on … yes it’s hard to imagine but it works.

Oh and BTW Seamus Anthony is my stage name, in reality you have to stick ‘Ennis’ on the end of all that, which would be fine but I don’t fancy a Google war with this Seamus Ennis.