Paddy Boom

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Paddy Boom (born Patrick Seacor, September 6, 1968) is the drummer for the American rock band, Scissor Sisters [[1]] As a teenager he taught himself to play drums, copying the style of U2's Larry Mullen Jr., using curtain rods fashioned into drumsticks on his sofa. He then progressed on to other drummers, and became a big fan of Stewart Copeland from The Police.

Patrick attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan to study advertising, where he met Bryan Hynes and Robert Brochu. The three formed the Sloane Rangers a seminal indie art-rock band that was a fixture in the New York rock scene for nearly a decade. TSR recorded two album 1990's "From The From" and 1992's "Scram", the later produced by Mark Spencer, guitarist for Lisa Loeb, Feddy Johnson and Blood Oranges.

After TSR, he started drumming in many different bands in New York, started his own label, Boom Boom Records, and signed his own band, Faith, where he drummed and sang backing vocals.

Paddy had been drumming in New York for 15 years, and reached the point in his life, where, as he puts it, "my shelf life was dangerously close to the end". He was looking for the next project, and found Scissor Sisters.

He was, and remains, a huge U2 fan, and his dream came true when Scissor Sisters were asked by Bono to open for them on U2's 2004 Vertigo tour. From the words of Paddy, when quoting the Beastie Boys, "I would have given up long ago if it weren't for the music."

[edit] Sources

• Mp3 interview with Paddy Boom

[edit] External links

• Official Site
• Paddy Boom at the Internet Movie Database

Scissor Sisters
Jake Shears · Babydaddy · Ana Matronic · Del Marquis · Paddy Boom
Discography
Albums: The Demo Album · Scissor Sisters · Remixed! · Ta-Dah
Singles: "Electrobix" · "Laura" · "Comfortably Numb" · "Take Your Mama" · "Mary" · "Filthy/Gorgeous" · "I Don't Feel like Dancin'" · "Land of a Thousand Words" · "She's My Man"
DVDs: We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You
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