Paddy Boom (real name: Patrick Seacor) played drums with the hip New York City, New York, USA-based Scissor Sisters until October 2008.



Seemingly inspired by the Bee Gees, Elton John and the gay clubs of their home city, the band got quite popular with their 2004 debut which drew on commercial 70s/80s MOR influences alongside more contemporary dance reference points. With a name derived from slang for lesbianism, the band was unlikely to be concerned about conformity and their (surprisingly strong) songs are frequently celebrations of outsiders.



Scissor Sisters took England by storm with their campy style and funky sound. while the group’s eponymous debut has barely sold 150,000 copies in the US, it’s sold 10 times that amount in England, where it went to No. 1 and became the year’s biggest-selling album.



Drummer Paddy Boom is the only straight man in a group originally called Dead Lesbian and the Fibrillating Scissor Sisters, and even lead singer Ana Matronic likes to describe herself as a drag queen trapped inside a woman’s body.



History:

As a teenager Patrick Seacor taught himself to play drums, copying the style of U2's Larry Mullen Jr., using curtain rods fashioned into drumsticks on his sofa. He then progressed on to other drummers, and became a big fan of Stewart Copeland from The Police. He started drumming in many different bands in New York, started his own label, Boom Boom Records, and signed his own band, Faith, where he drummed and sang backing vocals.



Paddy Boom had been drumming in New York for 15 years, and reached the point in his life, where, as he puts it, "my shelf life was dangerously close to the end". He was looking for the next project, and found Scissor Sisters.



Patrick Seacor/Paddy Boom was, and remains, a huge U2 fan, and his dream came true when Scissor Sisters were asked by Bono to open for them on U2's 2004 Vertigo tour. From the words of Paddy, when quoting the Beastie Boys, "I would have given up long ago if it weren't for the music."



When not behind the drums Paddy Boom enjoys the pleasure of eclectic DJ-ing. As a mad lover of the beat and as a resident of downtown New York City for almost 20 years, he has seen, heard and spun some of the finest sonic delights.