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Sean Temple

Velvet Waves

Alternative psychedelic, out of Erie, Pennsylvania. I play drums.

The four members of Velvet Waves outside a pale blue clapboard house on a summer evening: three sitting on the grass under a big tree with a golden retriever between them, the fourth standing on the porch step behind.

Velvet Waves is my band, out of Erie, Pennsylvania. Seven tracks are on Spotify, six of them listed as singles on Apple Music between 2019 and 2025, and two of them have official videos.

The whole catalogue is below, in order. Start at the top and let it run.

Discography

Listen on Spotify

Spotify carries the full catalogue, all seven tracks.

Waves Like Mine, shot on Super 8, filmed and produced by David Seehausen2019
Feelings On The Inside2025
Black and white shot of Sean behind the drum kit at King's Rook Club, in a baseball cap and plaid shirt, head down and mid-stroke, with the bass drum and cymbal stands filling the foreground.
Black and white wide shot of Velvet Waves on the King's Rook Club stage under a ceiling strung with lights: bassist at left, singer and guitarist at the centre mic, second guitarist at right, and the drummer seated behind them. A banner carrying the band's name is draped across the front of the stage.

I play drums in this band. Of the four things on this site, it is the only one that leaves nothing behind: no canvas, no commit, no file on a drive. Seven tracks came out of it and two of them have videos, and the rest of it only ever existed in the room it happened in.

I play guitar too, but drums are the ones that stuck.

The band's kick drum seen from floor level, its black head carrying an orange and white sticker reading CURRENTLY OVERTHINKING A VELVET WAVES LYRIC. An orange amplifier head sits at the left, a floor tom and cymbal stand at the right, and the kit rests on a black and white patterned rug under blue stage light.
Three Velvet Waves players crowded together at the front of a brick-walled room under magenta and purple light, guitar necks crossing and the whole frame smeared with motion blur, with the drummer visible between them at the back.
Velvet Waves playing beneath a banner reading CENTENNIAL HALL ERIE, PA: the bassist leaning back at left, the singer at the centre microphone with a guitar, and the drummer in a red plaid shirt at the kit on the right, under teal and purple spotlights.
An eight-panel collage from one Velvet Waves club show. The singer is at the microphone with a red hollow-body guitar under green and blue light; a guitarist is washed out by a blue spotlight; a player in a green cap leans toward a mic with his strap over one shoulder; the drummer, in a cap and glasses, is head down mid-stroke behind his cymbals; the bassist in a beanie plays a white bass under purple light; and three black and white frames close in on the guitarists.
Basement Transmissions, February 2025. Photography by vyri.photography
Shows

Live History

Erie-area rooms and festival stages since 2024. Festival sets at Chaffee's 45th Annual Gathering, Arts & Drafts at the Brewerie, the Ethereal Ice Festival and Celebrate Erie in Perry Square, plus bills shared with Blue Envy, Halfpace, Elle Taylor, Do Not Call List, Party Cove, Deja Blue, Turtle Park and Light Beams.

  • 1020 Collective, Deja Blue headliningErie, PA

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  • Celebrate Erie, Perry SquareErie, PA

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  • Centennial HallErie, PA

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  • Ethereal Ice Festival, 1020 CollectiveErie, PA

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  • King's Rook ClubErie, PA

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  • King's Rook ClubErie, PA

    Songkick

  • King's Rook ClubErie, PA

    Erie Reader

  • King's Rook ClubErie, PA

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  • Arts & Drafts Festival, Brewerie at Union StationErie, PA

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  • King's Rook ClubErie, PA

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  • 45th Annual Gathering at Chaffee'sGirard, PA

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  • Big BarErie, PA

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  • Basement TransmissionsErie, PA

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  • KingView MeadErie, PA

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