Biography
Not even Sammy’s mother knows exactly when he was born but most experts agree it was sometime between 1637 and 1982 give or take a year.
The gangster-ridden Costa Del Sol seaside resort of Marbella in Spain was where it occurred, his father a mad genius part-gypsy Spanish rock n’ roll singer and his mother a hippie with an accelerated IQ who was escaping her aristocratic upbringing by floating in Southern Spain with groovy rock n’ roll types. They met on a beach, partied hard for a summer or two, and Sammy was born.
One-and-a-half years later however things between the couple were not so groovy, the short-lived marriage went south, and Sammy’s mother went north, back to England with the toddler who’s favourite pastime was listening to The Rolling Stones over and over on cassette-tapes.
Sammy wrote his first pop tune at age nine. Titled “We Are Robbers”, Sammy is the first to admit it was a direct rip-off of an old Duran Duran song he’d heard on the radio that day. He was raised until the age of 12 in the UK, at which time his mum and her second husband, the bearer of the T(aylor) in Sammy T’s name, emigrated to Australia. Sammy spent all of teenage years and early twenties down under, not surfing and playing sports like so many of the other Aussie kids, but forming rock n’ roll bands that were gonna “live it large and do loads of drinks and girls and stuff”. Aaah the teenage dream…
After school ended, Sammy wound up in a publishing company where he started writing music and video game reviews and interviewing such artists as The Foo Fighters and Marilyn Manson for trendy youth magazines. At the same time, under the moniker Sammysex, he formed the camp disco-rock group Ubersexy, which featured him singing alongside two hot pop-tastic girls, and was in a way the Genesis of The Tight Trousers. Dougal Hallowes, the bassist and electronics master of the T.T.’s was also in this group, which after playing footsies with Universal Music Australia, disbanded when Sammy moved to back to London because amongst other reasons he “felt too guilty being inside all the time and not surfing” and figured cold, wet London, UK would be better suited to a geek like him.
Not true. He now resides mainly in The Bahamas, (as much as a regular tourist visa will allow him to) because “bloody London is too cold and wet and sucks when you have no cash,” but he knows this probably can’t last forever. Next? The USA has always been Sammy’s favourite country and he one day hopes to call it his home.
Whilst in back in London however he fronted the Punk-pop group The Dealers, two members of which now make up the rest of the Tight Trousers- Brit-rocker Ben Lawson on guitar and Austrian rhythm machine Max Zastiera on Drums.
This final line-up of Sammy’s band debuted in June 2010 in Amsterdam, Holland and then played their second only ever live gig at Glastonbury Festival in the UK a week later.
Sammy plays guitar, piano and drums, well enough to compose on with the help of a computer, but is “much too crap a player to play instruments in front of an audience, I prefer to strut about like a tosser ” but with his Tight Trousers in tow, the foursome are all masters of their craft, but never, EVER, take themselves too seriously.
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