Press

INTERVIEWS:
Evening Herald Feb 2009 interview Eamon Carr (download)
Irish Times Interview by Kevin Courtney Feb 2009 (download)
Metro interview by Darragh Reddin Oct 29th 2009 (download page 1 download page 2)

ALBUM REVIEWS:

REVIEWS FOR ‘ALWAYS COMING HOME’ ALBUM (2002)
Irish Times review “Sean Millar is an Irish national treasure. Brilliant caustic acoustic rock’n’roll moving in similar circles to Hammel On Trial...of the hundreds of new albums I’ll hear this year this one is unlikely to be bettered.. truly awesome. * * * * *

- Hot Press, Stephen Robinson 31st May 2002:
“He combines excellent melodies, biting lyrics and understated production to illustrate his tales of life, love and loss in a style sometimes reminiscent of Waits or even Dylan, Importantly though he retains his own distinctive edge throughout ensuring that he experiments with pop folk and country styles yet keep a singular thread weaving through the album. An excellent, excellent album and one of the best short story collections I’ve never read”. 10/12

REVIEWS FOR THE DEAL (1998):

Alan Corr, RTE Guide
“It's been a while but it's been worth the wait. Dr Millar's new album The Deal is out and, as you might expect from the master of malcontent, it's a collection of witty asides and cutting song stories. Highly recommended"

Kevin Courtney, The Irish Times "A compassionate heart and a sympathetic soul, Millar's tales of drinking, cursing, loving and cheating are brutally honest vignettes of Irish low life sung in a smoky sardonic rasp."

Joe Jackson, Hot Press "We need writers like Sean Millar to remind us of how bestial and scabrous we can all be, at times, and indeed should be, if only to taste life on every level. The Deal is an album that should be heard."

Tony Clayton Lea, The Sunday Times
"Millar's outlook on life may be bleak but it is offset by shards of humour and some of the best lyrics an Irish singer - songwriter has given us this year. His voice is a perfect companion to the songs' many attributes, superb....A startling record for all the right reasons."

REVIEWS FOR THE BITTER LIE (1995):

Dublin Event Guide: Laoise MacReamoinn
“Social commentator, Ironist, lethal romantic, Doctor Millar's stunning album The Bitter Lie confirms his position on the A-list of Irish singer/songwriters. More importantly it challenges the myth that universality requires compromise. Sean Millar wouldn't be able to pander to the market for love or money, and what renders his poetic talent so mesmerising is the acute often painful intellectual and spiritual honesty of his observations”

In Dublin: Damian Corless (Editor)
“The Bitter Lie is an album that bristles with attitude, wit and insight. Many of Millar's meditations are delivered in machine-gun bursts that are marvellous to behold, but it's the elegiac simplicity of "Future Beauty” which best sums up the appeal of this unexpected gem.

Hot Press: Niall Stokes (Editor).
“I wouldn't have taken on the task of reviewing "Bitter Lie" if I didn't think it was a great album. It is that and more a wonderful, powerful, intimate, emotional record, that's packed with beautiful, brilliant and inspired songs”