About
Crusty 35 year old rockers with family responsibilities and a real job are supposed to give up - right? … Yeah, right … as if …
When the music is in your blood it’s in your blood and no matter what your age you should never let it slide because you KNOW what happens then right?
You start to slowly, bit-by-bit, go completely fucking insane!
I know this, but like a lot of musos, I haven’t always been focussed enough to practice this. It’s like, one day I was always rockin’ out, or crooning a sweet ballad or whatever in front of crowds of either the proverbial man and his dog or (I kid you not) crowds as big as 5000 people, and then I wake up and although I have NOTHING to complain about (beautiful partner, baby daughter, home) BUT I only ever seem to pick up my guitar and give it a bash out in the shed late on a Friday night when I’m half pissed. Or, let’s be honest, totally pissed.
Well, fuck it, this has to change and right now.
So I will be documenting my efforts to get back on the old rock n’ roll horse right here so why don’t you get with this whole RSS thing and subscribe and follow me as I have another crack at it.
And look, don’t get me wrong, I am not an idiot, well not totally anyway, I KNOW I am too old to be some kind of teeny heart throb or whatever - but who the fuck wants that anyway? I just want to play some music again man; solo, with others, in dive bars or (even better) on professional stages in front of decent, music lovin’ crowds again.
Let’s face it - what muso doesn’t want that?
The only thing that stops us is OURSELVES, man!
Time to stop making excuses and start making music again!
Go here to listen to my music without leaving this blog
Go here to my myspace page
Go here to check out the blog I co-write with my mate Steve about Zen, and all that kooky stuff: Rebel Zen .com
Go here to check out my old blog about Zen/Taoism (and other ramblings)
Go here to check the page for the rockin’ cult 90s band I was in called Reckoning
Go here to check out this blog’s homepage
Here’s a roughly hacked out bio about me for those who like to read roughly hacked out bios written by people about themselves in the third person who are too lazy to change it back to the first person even though third person makes no sense on a blog 
Séamus was brought up by a colorful mixture of Free-Love Hippies and Born Again Fundamentalists - but somehow he survived intact.
Then straight out of school, he cut his teeth rocking the town of Adelaide, South Australia during the nineties in cult band Reckoning.
By the time he was twenty-two he was one feral freak indeed, and was on the run from the law. Under cover of darkness, and wearing clothing inappropriate for the weather, he moved to Melbourne, Victoria (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 him.
He then developed a passion for psychedelic meditation which enabled him to get back on the good-foot, and subsequently joined the band Quill. They did ok for a bit, but the heat was closing in, so Séamus stowed away on a rusty freighter and went adventuring through Asia until he got stuck - cashless and dazed by the bright lights in Japan.
After doing solo gigs in Tokyo to pay his way home (and doing some more meditation), he cruised back to Melbourne, where he was welcomed home by a pyscho who beat the living shit out of him at Greasy Joe’s in St Kilda. Once his broken bones healed, Seamus spent a few years playing in the front bars of Melbourne, honing his craft and always writing new songs.
On the side he has run a nightclub, made coffee in countless Melbourne cafes, had about twelve or thirteen articles professionally published, wrote a thriller novel, taught meditation, and worked in the corporate sector. He now works at the head office of a holistic lifestyle magazine, LivingNow, where he writes articles, sells ads, drinks coffee, writes about himself in the third person on his myspace page 
and manages the LivingNow website.
Ok I am sick of talking about myself in the third person. Here’s what I am doing now: I just finished a new collection of songs which sound a bit like this and which I will be releasing when I get back from a summertime holiday to Europe (Ok this is FINALLY happening now in July 2008 - sorry - fathered a baby in the downtime. Slightly distracting.). And there are several other new musical and written adventures about to hit the streets, (including a collaboration with Peter Owen from Reckoning).
