The Hair-Raising Adventures of Seamus Anthony

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.

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 really great guy who beat the living shit out of me in St Kilda. Once my broken bones healed, I spent a million years playing in the front bars of Melbourne, honing my craft, my sense of humour and always writing new songs.

Along the 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countless Melbourne cafes, had many articles professionally published in print and on the web, wrote a thriller novel (unpublished, possibly crap), been held up at knife point by a leather-clad biker dwarf, taught meditation, travelled to France, Ireland, Belgium, England, Malaysia,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!) twice (double yay!).

Upon the birth of my first child I had an epiphany that my life purpose is to play music until I die, so since then, 2007, I have been working hard and slowly raising my music up from the ashes of the ’90s like a some kind of slacker-phoenix with a headache. Things are going pretty good too, stay tuned…

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