Classic rock pop album from Australia. Recalls everything from The Go-Betweens to The Saints.

10 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Classic Rock, POP: Piano



Details:
Sean Sennett talks in the kind of pictures you feel. "If I were to say to you," he suggests, "You know that feeling you get in your shoes when you walk down a gravel driveway?' You'd know exactly what I meant, wouldn't you? Well, that's kinda what I aim for in a song."

Sean's classic debut album was co produced by Michael Hiron (The Riptides/Pineapples From The Dawn Of Time). 'Mrs. John Henry' recalls the lilt of The Go Betweens, while 'Happiness' is a co-write with former Sports' frontman, Stephen Cummings. Rockier numbers include 'She's A Comet' and 'The Sun King'.

"I really loved the Beatles as a kid, that was my inspiration in a nutshell," he says of his roots in song. "When my dad first got a car with a cassette player we'd play Sergeant Pepper and hearing them and reading about their world was a big escape for me as a working class kid in Brisbane."

A series of university bands kept Sean's internal film projector rolling until his first single, A Girl Called Love, cracked the national airwaves in the early '90s. He hit the streets of Sydney to find âthey weren't paved with goldâ. But they did yield some interesting friends.

"I gave Tim Finn an album's worth of stuff I'd recorded and he was very generous about it. He sat there like a schoolteacher and did a critique, then he said, 'Why don't you send it to my publisher?'"

Publishing deal in hand, doors began to open. The next song Sean wrote was with Ross Wilson. The Daddy Cool/ Mondo Rock legend decided Same As Me was strong enough to include on his 30-year Greatest Hits retrospective, released in 2002.

Also worth checking out is Sean's follow up platter, 'Lost And Found'.