Dan Sealey
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Dan Sealey is a bass guitarist for the rock group, Ocean Colour Scene. He was drafted in by the band after Damon Minchella left the band in 2003, and is now a permanent fixture in the bands lineup. Before joining Ocean Colour Scene Sealey was a member of the band Late.
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[edit] Late
Prior to joining Ocean Colour Scene Sealey was singer and rhythm guitarist in Late, a four-piece indie/rock band from Astwood Bank, Redditch Worcestershire who were active between 1997 and 2001. The band members were:
- Dan Sealey- vocals and rhythm guitar
- Paul McCormack- lead guitar
- Greg Young- bass guitar
- Ted Atkinson- drums
In 2001 Late supported Ocean Colour Scene at a number of UK gigs a slot which had previously been filled by Coldplay. Late were managed by Dan's father Dave Sealey, who was one half of folk/music hall duo Cosmotheka along with his brother Al Sealey.
The following songs have been written, performed and possibly recorded by Late:
- Still Go On (released on 7 track CD)
- Something New
- Only A Game
- What's It Going To Be?
- The Elf
- You'll Go Far
- The Harder You Look
- No Reason
- Man in the middle
- I've Had Enough of You
- Stay With Me
- Round and Round
- Political
- How Many Times
- The Start of the Summer
[edit] Ocean Colour Scene
Sealey became involved with Birmingham band Ocean Colour Scene after the departure of original bass player and founder member Damon Minchella in late 2003. Sealey already had a loose connection to Ocean Colour Scene beause his sister Claire is married to Matthew Fowler, the brother of Simon Fowler. Sealey 'sent a speculative text message to Simon saying if they were short he'd step up' and 'then in January 04 Dan gets a call from Simon asking if he could fill in on the bass for a gig at the Albert Hall for a Ronnie Lane tribute gig. Dan said "YES", nailed the gig and has been playing bass for OCS ever since.'[cite this quote]
The 2004 Ronnie Lane memorial gig was the first to feature Sealey on bass and Andy Bennett on rhythm guitar, Sealey toured with Ocean Colour Scene throughout 2004 and features on the 2004 live album One for the Road but not on the 2005 studio album A Hyperactive Workout for the Flying Squad. Sealey is now a permanent member of Ocean Colour Scene and has contributed bass to the album On the Leyline, which features a song he wrote called 'Man in the Middle'.
[edit] Solo work
In addition to his work with Ocean Colour Scene, Sealey has been writing and recording solo material for release in the near future, some of these songs can be heard on Sealey's Myspace page. Solo songs known to exist include:
- Mr Marshall
- Hello Hello
- Monkey
- Monkey Reprise
- I wanna go home
- In the mids't of summer time
- Long way to go
[edit] Cricket
Dan Sealey is a batsman and bowler for the Astwood Bank Village Cricket Club.
[edit] External links
- http://www.myspace.com/pmccormack1
- http://www.dansealey.com Dan Sealey Official Website]
- http://www.myspace.com/dansealeyuk Official Dan Sealey Myspace]
- http://www.sellaband.com/dan-sealey Microsite with Clips of solo recordings]
- http://archive.thisisworcestershire.co.uk/2001/1/24/340298.html 2001 article about and interview with Late]
- http://archive.thisisworcestershire.co.uk/2001/05/23/325277.html 2001 Newspaper article about Late]
- http://archive.redditchadvertiser.co.uk/2000/8/9/359412.html 2000 Newspaper article about Late]
- http://www.myreader.co.uk/msg/11652728.aspx Article about Dave Sealey]
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2005/08/11/ocean_colour_scene_cricket_feature.shtml BBC article about Dan's involvement in Astwood Bank cricket side]
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