Jonathan Seet - Songwriter, Composer

Merry Ringtone

JS — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:43:54 +0000

It’s been quite a year! Moved from Oxford to London, I’ve started a job at the BBC as a webmaster, and released that EP to iTunes back in the summer. The BBC has been diverting quite a bit of energy over the past few months so my output has flagged. Plus, I’ll be becoming a dad in March. Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Cha…hmm…D-D-D-Distractions…

At some point I need to re-skin this site and simplify it a bit.

Anyway, if you have an iPhone here’s a holiday gift: an All Over You Ringtone. If anybody knows how to create ringtones for other phones/formats, email them to me and I’ll try to post them.

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The End Of The Beginning EP

JS — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:47:14 +0000

In the tradition of double albums, triptychs and trilogies and generally just wanting to get it out there, the The End Of The Beginning EP has been released. A glorious 8 tracks and just over 29 minutes of music. However, in this age of download-able media you don’t need to buy or listen to the whole thing. Take it as you will.

It’s available now on the iTunes Music Store (click here) and will eventually be available on Amazon.com. Please enjoy responsibly. The tracks can also be listened to in full on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/jonathanseet. Watch your speakers.

Update: The EP is now live on Amazon.com [Sept. 19, 2009]

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New Tunes On The Way

JS — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:54:10 +0000

April & May has been quite a whirlwind with touring interspersed with several (fantastic) weddings. However, I’ve also been working on a whole bundle of new songs which have collected over the past year or so…about 40-ish of varying quality and palatability. I’ve played quite a few at Catweazle and the various shows I’ve been doing around. Rob Greenway has been kindly doing “remote drums” on some of them and a few days ago, I enticed a few volunteers from the Jonathan Seet Music Facebook Group to engage in some listening tests on some of the more finished ones. I hope to have these available for downloading sometime in the next few weeks after I check them on some decent monitors for myself.

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BBC Oxford Introducing

JS — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:07:20 +0000

Last night, BBC Oxford’s Introducing radio show played Killing All My Friends and gave a little plug for the Jericho Tavern show on April 17th. It will be available for replay until next Saturday at this link (you need the BBC iPlayer or the RealAudio plugin).

Thanks guys!

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London Buses

JS — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:18:42 +0000

Saw this on the side of a bus last week in London:

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Happy Valentine’s Day — Free MP3

JS — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:56:57 +0000

Today is the 6th birthday of Arousal Disasters (2003) and as a Valentine’s Day gift to you I’m offering a remixed/remastered and slightly doctored/enhanced version (from 2005) of the song The Dead Ballet in all its full 320kbps MP3 glory:

Download audio file (Jonathan Seet — Arousal Disasters (2005) — 05 — The Dead Ballet.mp3)

Here’s a little story: in case you’re curious why Arousal Disasters is unavailable in physical CD form (aside from the used record peddler stores) only a thousand were ever manufactured. It was in a gorgeous Digi-pak format which was designed by my friend and drummer, Rob Greenway. Aporia Records agreed to manufacture them at quite a cost. Many were sent out for promotional purposes (and probably ultimately ended up in the aforementioned used record stores), many were sold off-stage at shows and the remainder were given to Maple Nationwide, who was distributed by Universal Music in Canada. Since nobody was really buying it in the stores due to lack of any real promotion, after about 6 months Universal eventually pulled it from the shelves and kept the remaining copies in their warehouse. Eventually, somebody decided it was taking up unnecessary space should be removed from the warehouse . But instead of shipping it back to Maple Nationwide and Aporia (and me), Universal Music Canada had them summarily destroyed. In fact, Maple Nationwide had no idea until after months of pestering they figured it out and sheepishly said, “this has never happened before.”

Now, frankly, there probably weren’t that many left. Maybe 100 or so. However, that would have been 100 more copies out in the world than there are right now.

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Flashpoint in the UK

JS — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:35:50 +0000

For those of you in England or with a really good satellite provider: Flashpoint was picked up by ITV in the UK last year and has started broadcasting on ITV3 on Thursdays.

Update: also, Channel 9 in Australia. Although, they’ve decided to air them out of order based on the belief that “the first episodes are usually the weakest.”

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Solo Show

JS — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:35:54 +0000

What: Solo Opener Show
Where: The Bee Hive (55 Prospect Hill, Swindon, UK)
When: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 (Doors @ 8pm)

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Solo Show

JS — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:30:24 +0000

What: Solo Opener Show
Where: Jericho Tavern (56 Walton St., Oxford, UK)
When: Friday, April 17, 2009 (Doors @ 8pm)
Cover: £5

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Thanks To Science Pulp-Art Mockups

JS — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:32:14 +0000

As an exercise in combating the Sunday blahs, I thought it would be fun to show these mockups. I originally had the idea that an album called Thanks To Science, We’ve Got Love should have pulp sci-fi artwork. A designer friend of mine took a few runs at it but ultimately the time and effort (and money) involved would have eclipsed all practicality. Also, the original masters of that genre (or their publishers) would never have given me permission and the copyright issues would have been a nightmare.

When I came across this excellent posting a few months ago, I was intrigued again. So I’ve borrowed a few pics and in 15 minutes, slapped a concept together that is both hilarious and horrific. Here’s hoping I don’t get C&D’d or, worse, get sued.

Above: Original Art by Norman Saunders

Above: Original Art by Virgil Finlay

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