Biography

 

The Mersey Sect formed in late 1996, the result of a common love of the music of the '50s and '60s. In fact, the various members of the group have all had previous experiences in "retro" style bands. Claudio Resentini, Gianluca Borracino e Valerio Dal Passo played together in Gente di Spiaggia & The Holidays, Dominic Turner was a member of the Crashmen, a Milanese surf outfit, and the dynamic singer Francesco "François" Turrisi fronted a prominent sixties band from Catania, François & Le Coccinelle. However, the Mersey Sect were inspired by the Merseybeat scene of the early '60s, and set out to emulate the sounds that characterised the Liverpool-Hamburg axis at the beginning of that decade.

Francesco "François" Turrisi, the band's dynamic singer, was forced to leave the group to return to his native Sicily in September 1998. Fortunately, the Mersey Sect immediately found the ideal replacement - the New Yorker Ed Seagraves, a frontman of great experience. The band lost another original member in April 2002, with the departure of bassist Claudio Resentini. His place was taken by Joe "Cool" Silari.

The current lineup is therefore the following:


Over the five years that they have been together, the Mersey Sect have played in numerous pubs, clubs and at public functions in Milan and Northern Italy, rarely failing to get folks jumping. A few milestones:

 

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