Sean Parker Band is an experimental alternative rock group based in Istanbul, based around British-born singer-songwriter Sean Parker. They are notable for playing with Ed Harcourt at Babylon Istanbul club, John Robb's The Membranes at Indigo, with Turkish experimental rock group Replikas at Haymatlos, at the Foça and Gazipaşa rock festivals in 2010 and 2009 respectively, and their 2008 album track Whose which reached number 11 on iLike's "Most Dedicated" chart. Writer and philosopher Alain de Botton wrote of the 2008 album 'A Gun To The Temple': 'wonderful - the songs are as heartfelt as they are intelligent'.
Sean Parker Band have been compared to Roxy Music, Pixies' Frank Black, The Velvet Underground, Devo, David Bowie and Talking Heads in various reviews and articles.
Parker was born on the 19th May 1975 in Exeter, Devon, UK to Jeffrey Parker, a drama lecturer at Exeter University, and Anna Parker (nee West), a speech therapist. After his parents divorced in 1986, the family moved to Carmarthenshire, South Wales. He completed his masters degree in Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts, Surrey in 2003, after which he moved to live and record in Istanbul. Parker is joined in the band by Burak Kayışoğlu (guitar), Kemal Eren Olgaç (bass) and Hayrullah Canbazoğlu (drums), and are currently recording their third album, named Culture, in Istanbul, to be released by Equinox Music in 2011.