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Michael J Sheehy

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when did we grow so old?
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Released: Jan 1, 2009
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  • Genre: Blues / Gothic / Showtunes

    Location london, UK

    Profile Views: 169451

    Last Login: 2/9/2012

    Member Since 1/22/2006

    Website you are looking at it!

    Record Label Glitterhouse / RedEye Music

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .... I will never forget those pictures that hung from the walls of the various places I lived as a child. A Sacred Heart of Jesus; you know the ones with a red light bulb on a little ledge just beneath the picture of Our Lord baring His burning heart for all to see and the other was a huge framed photo of Elvis circa 1974 resplendent in a white rhinestone encrusted jumpsuit slashed to the midriff, guitar slung about his hips, jet-black hair, bronze skin, a little overweight but not yet the bloated grotesque he would soon become. In our home Jesus was God; but Elvis wasn’t far behind. At five years old I was beginning to show a little artistic flair so my teacher got me to depict the Sorrowful Mysteries of The Rosary to be displayed in the church during Easter week. I took to the task with relish; I particularly enjoyed drawing The Scourging At The Pillar and The Crucifixion; the blood, the whip, the nails, the crown of thorns and the foreboding black sky over Golgotha; the suffering of Jesus really inspired me. I was working from my imagination and what I’d seen in the epic TV series Jesus Of Nazareth starring Robert Powell. As a teenager I began singing in the church choir encouraged and inspired by the parish priest Father Pat Brown who had one of the greatest tenor voices I have ever heard. I met Mother Teresa and sang for her when she visited our church; she gave me a Missionaries of Charity medal (she was handing them out like lollipops) that I wore around my neck for a year or so. The first time I went down on a girl, the medal kept getting in the way. Maybe it was God’s way of letting me know I shouldn’t have been eating pussy outside of Holy wedlock. I quickly realized I had failed miserably in my quest to be Christ-like so I thought I’d have a crack at being Elvis for a while; naturally this didn’t work out too well either. I formed the band Dream City Film Club, we signed to Beggars Banquet in 1996 and made some records. Sometime during 1999 the group imploded in a hail of fists and forked tongues. My hair began falling out so I continued making records as a bald solo artiste mainly because I had no idea how to do anything else. After three artistically over reaching but commercially under achieving albums I was dropped by Beggars Banquet and spent the next five years contemplating my navel. In 2007 I decided to start making music again.

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  • Sounds Like

    "Sheehy uses his beautiful, bruised blues croon to fine effect on a clutch of brooding and atmospheric songs, which sometimes suggest Billy Fury singing Shane MacGowan's lyrics over Nick Cave's gentler moments. " Time Out .......... ...... .... .. .... .. .... .. .... ..

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  • Brisss

    You're the most gorgeous musician and singer in the whole world!Love you truly,madly...

    1 year ago
  • Don Bingo

    ever been hired to play a funeral?

    1 year ago
  • Gregory Davies

    Ahoy!

    Hope you're well! I'm making more trips to LDN nowadays, any gigs you think I might particularily enjoy? Let me know... Speak to ya soon m8 Greg


    2 years ago
  • OJM Volcano

    London continues to be hit by many Italian artists, especially those who, for content and tone, the ability and desire to assert itself outside the national borders: The case of the OJM, a band that has managed to earn a significant success in the heavy-pshyc Italian assets and intense live activity in the peninsula. On 17 and 18 March, the OJM return to the UK with two concerts in London, where the opportunity to present the songs will be recorded in April at the Red House Recording of Senigallia (Ancona) with producer Dave Catching (DESERT SESSION, THE QUEENS OF STONE AGE, EAGLES OF DEATH METAL / MONDO GENERATOR, MASTER OF REALITY). 17th March 2010 Monto Water Rats 328 Grays Inn Road London WC1X 8BZ Switchboard, London, London and South East 18th March 201 Peter Parker’s r’n’r club Denmark Street Denmark Street, London

    2 years ago
  • The Stag-O-Lee Shakedown

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    2 years ago
  • alexander

    ..hi michael,

    hope you had a good start into 2010.

    see you in beverungen!

    greetings from berlin
    alexander


    2 years ago
  • Janix Menschenfleisch

    thanks for the add

    greetings

    janix menschenfleisch

    2 years ago
  • Tap Taplin

    Hello Michael,

    Just a quick note to wish you all the best for 2010, hope it treats you well.

    All the best,

    Tap

    2 years ago
  • Little Kim & the Alley …

    Happy New Year!!!

    Have a fantastic 2010.

    2 years ago
  • Mozzy mozzy

    MICHAEL

    I wish you a wish all my wishes for the new year 2010 you and your whole family

    2 years ago

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