Hi, I’m Australian singer songwriter, Seamus Anthony
If you like Nick Cave, Beck, Bob Dylan, Neil Young or Leonard Cohen then you may well dig my low-down alt-folk songs with a twist of black funny.
SEAMUS’ MUSIC
July 2010 - “Glass and Blood and Leaves”
A small collection of black songs about those moments in life where you look at yourself in a filthy, cracked, blood-flecked mirror and the first thought that springs to mind is “Yup - file this sucker under D for Damaged Goods”.
April 2010 “My Wooden Leg”
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 blog where I write about all kinds of stuff.
Or go to this website’s blog, which is more about what it means to be a musician, what it feels like, especially to be a fat or ugly or unpopular or frustrated suburban 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 work from home in Website Design and slowly raising my music up 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 and/or download for free or name-your-price by clicking the link below:
