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Seb Rochford

Polar Bear Discography:
Dim Lit
Held on the Tips of Fingers
Shortlisted for the 2005 Mercury Music Prize

Acoustic Ladyland
Camouflage
Last Chance Disco

Originally from Aberdeen, Seb is the extraordinary in-demand drummer/composer and winner of BBC Jazz award for Rising Star 2004 whose healthy range of influences include Napalm Death, Venetian Snares, Bjork, Prince and contemporary electronica as well as a large dose of jazz.
Rochford leads the acclaimed Polar Bear (winner of the Rising Star Award in the 2004 BBC Jazz Awards and nominated for both 2004 and 2005 best band in BBC Jazz Awards) and who's recent album Held on the Tips of Fingers was nominated for the highly prestigious 2005 Mercury Music Prize. It went on to appear in the top 100 all time jazz recordings that shook the World in Jazzwise Magazine in 2006. Seb has also been working and recording with Pete Wareham's Acoustic Ladyland, Julia Biel, Ingrid Laubrock, Oriole, Juliet Kelly, and Tim Richards among others. He also appears in various alt rock bands such as Menlo Park and Paul the Girl and leads a quirkily melodic jazz-punk trio Fulborn Teversham. Also among his many ventures, Seb appeared at the Patti Smith Meltdown concert at the Barbican drumming for Yoko Ono alongside her son, guitarist Sean Lennon. in October 2006 Seb appeared at the newly renovated Roundhouse in Camden for the Electric Proms in duo with Soft Machine legend, bassist Hugh Hopper. He has also played recently with high profile International names such as Andy Sheppard, French-based pianist Bojan Z's Tetraband and with master thereminist Pamelia Kurstin and in the non-jazz world collaborated recently on David Byrne's new album with Brian Eno.

For more updated info on Polar Bear click here (New album just out on Leaf label.)