Michael Severin /Sev Micron

Mike Severin/alias Sev Micron, born in Sault Ste Marie Ontario Canada, studied keyboard theory and harmony @ the Royal Conservatory at a early age. Then ..came beating up my moms leather pillows with drumstix. Mom and Sev bought his first kit and the rest is....Studied jazz, military and the Podemski drum method. Played with notorious Red Tide, Kevin Snork Johns, Larry Janneson and Grant Walker/2nd long lost cousin. Playing various public schools @ age 14 and rehearsing in Snorks parents basement, long hours, god bless the Johns for their belief in us all at such a precious age.
Then in the mid 70..s started up with also childhood friends George Pavelich/George/Steve Stinson/Stint Malicious and the Real True Toxic twins, brothers, Peter/Joey Q-Tip /Cooper and Paul/Frankly Disgusting /Cooper, and the crew of Johnny B Gill and dear Stink Foot Randy Werner. God bless each and everyone. Old Hat toured N and S Ontario, and got passed on by the agency for some band called ah...the Spoons, Peter left and joined the circus, so..whew... are you getting all this.... okay we changed the name to the Roll-ons,(www.myspace.com/therollons), broke Box Car Willie..s beer sales in The New Ontario bar in the Soo, @256, not proud of it but... The Roll-on..s broke up.
Moved to Toronto and played with Keith Whittaker, may God rest his soul, in Hoi Poloi, but couldn't keep up with the beer drinking. Thankfully met brothers Chris and John Bottomley and formed Private Lives which changed to Toronto Indie punkfunkist..s Tulpa. (www.myspace.com/tulpamusic) Released 3 indie videos on 16 mil, and the album Mosaic Fish thru Midnight Music U.K. in 1984. Opened up such clubs in Toronto as The Rivoli and Lee..s Palace, played the original T.O bar scene, The Diamond, Larry..s Hideaway. Cabana Room, The Bev, and played New York..s C.B.G.B..s numerous times. Recorded Off the Board from cbgb..s and played with such acts as Michelle Schocked, Vernon Reid..s Living Colour, Rude Buddha and many more.
Leaving Tulpa in 1987, I did brief stints as drummer with London..s Itsa Skitsa, Lee Whalen..s Norte Dames, Eugene Ripper and the North , and as a member of the North played all over Canada and Barrie..s Molson Park on Canada Day. Also played with Laughing Apples, Dumpster, David Waldner, Spin, & Dave the Cat.I rejoined John Bottomley in 1990 and recorded the song Barkeeper and also performed in the video for the album Library of the Sun.
Now producing my own music in my own studio; Muzicare Productions in High Park Toronto. Recording various indie artists. .... and still rocking after all these years with Git Monster /Mr Buck Moore, drummer Neil Saunders and local Soo- ite Mark Richards on Bass in cyber punk Toronto band The Throbbin Hoods. (www.myspace.com/monkeyjuice) The Hoods have played with such acts as D.O.A., Teenage Head, Nazareth , and have been tagged as 'The Car..s on Acid with some serious attitude. also playing drums for Pauline Groen..s new project titled Sleeps Six,with Marc Ganetokos on Guitar and Jim Fields on Bass.Paulines new album Late Enough was also recorded at Sev..s Muzicare Studios ,look for a summer release."
My personal music is everything from ambient , acid -jazz, funk and soul, loud and proud to enviormental, atmospheric, industrial and just about everything except Polka... god i hate Polka. Sorry Walter.. I try to write what I feel. Sometimes it works and other times it is a work in progress. Only being nurtured till a much more needed time. In spirit and in mind, be it of man or of beast, we are all from the same sand box.
Peaceb2allandeverylittlething, and the Big ones to....Sincerly Mike Sev