MOJO DECEMBER 1996
... Drummer Sean stands in the far corner, immaculate in Adidas, sipping on a lemonade, quietly observing.
Mitch Ikeda on Sean: Sean and me are soul brothers, think the same.
Sean: “I wish in a way that it could have all started with this album. Things might have been very different” It’s 1am, the bar of the Holiday Inn is closing and Sean, drummer and dissident philosopher, cracks open another blackcurrant hooch and reclines in his comfy throne. Rarely seen up and about after midnight on the present tour, he’s dedicated to availing himself of at least 8 hours sleep each night. “I’m trying not to drink either. You can’t play the kind of shows we do if you’re permanently hungover. This is the first drink I’ve had all tour, actually” On the subject of the Manics output he offers detached and curiously objective criticism. “Our first three albums were a build-up to this one. They’re all flawed, mind, occasionally naive records but they were important. Holy Bible was very dark, something we knew from the moment we started working on that wasn’t going to be played at parties. But it has changed, definitely; without Richey we’ve become more optimistic on record, more positive. Saying that, I think some of the drama has gone now he’s not around”