I am a singer-songwriter raised in the san francisco bay area. I suppose we're all products of our environment, so my musical inclinations probably bow to an adolescence spent listening to the beatles on my parents' stereo, admiring the counter-culture older kids around me who were filling their ears with REM and the Cure and puzzling over the sweatsuit-clad younger generation who were just abandoning grunge rock for ska and hip hop.

It should be noted that I love vocal harmony possibly more than anything else in music (explaining a quirky penchant I have for old barbershop quartets and medieval choral pieces). After high school I learned that playing music wasn't necessarily about the songs you knew or wrote. I fell into jamming (an art I still have much to learn about) by hanging out with musicians far better than I ever will be, who filled my head with the blues, freestyle improvisation and the primal joy of simple accoustic rythms.

Nowadays Kim and I play out a few times a week as kerbside and spend a lot of time hanging out and sharing music with other musicians in our area. We've just released our first CD . . . it's a real living room recording job (literally), but, for the first time, I have a real sense of contentment about this recording. Currently, we're touring around Ireland and the UK with it. Check it out by clicking here.

Feel free to listen and enjoy some of my older mp3's (to the right on this page), visit our band website at www.kerbside.ie, cruise through the Bay Area Open Mic Calendar or write to me at sean at lightholder dot net to let me know what you think.