Sean Rowley

Sean Rowley is a British disc jockey, TV & Radio presenter.[1]

This article is about the BBC disc jockey. For the late singer of Cause and Effect, see Sean Rowley (singer).

He started his DJ career in the mid- 90’s touring with the likes of Paul Weller & Oasis. He came up with a concept for the radio show All Back To Mine,[2] which saw him delve into the record collections of music loving celebrities. Guests included The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Damon Albarn & Paul Weller. The first show was recorded at Supernova Heights with Noel Gallagher and broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on Christmas Day 1997.

All Back To Mine[3] transferred to television & was broadcast on Channel 4 in 1998. Running for 2 series (9 episodes) with Rowley presenting & guests including Lemmy from Motorhead, Gil Scott Heron, Frankie Knuckles, Moby & James Dean Bradfield from Manic Street Preachers.

Rowley also presented the 13 part BBC TV series Head To Toe[4] in 2000, a history of modern menswear.

By 2001 Rowley was hosting a weekly show on BBC Radio London which ran for 8 years. In 2009 the show moved to BBC Kent, where in 2012 he won the silver Sony Radio Academy Award for Music Broadcaster Of The Year[5]

Rowley devised the Guilty Pleasures concept as a slot on his former BBC London radio show,[6] to attempt to 'reclaim' songs that are viewed as "slightly shameful to love". His club Guilty Pleasures took place at KOKO in Camden Town,[7] and has spawned five compilation albums, a radio show on BBC London 94.9, and a television show[8] on ITV1 hosted by Fearne Cotton on which established performers including Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Craig David, Supergrass & KT Tunstall performed cover versions of Guilty Pleasures favourites.

Under the banner of the Guilty Pleasures brand, Rowley has hosted & DJ’d at events around the world & across many major UK festivals, headlining stages at Glastonbury, Latitude, The Big Chill & Bestival.

In 2016 Rowley co-founded the Mighty Hoopla[9] festival, which saw Guilty Pleasures join forces with like minded pop brands & host a weekender event at Butlins in Bognor Regis. This grew into a one day festival in Victoria Park, London in 2017 & has now upgraded to 2 days in Brockwell Park, South London. Headline acts have included Years & Years, TLC, Chaka Khan, En Vogue & Sugababes in 2022.

Rowley appears on the cover of the Oasis album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?[7]

References
  1. "A-Z 94.9 Presenters: Sean Rowley's Guilty Pleasures Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine", BBC, retrieved 2011-07-31
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  6. "Q&A: Sean Rowley on six years of Guilty Pleasures Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine", Esquire, retrieved 2011-07-31
  7. McNulty, Bernadette (2010) "Guilty Pleasures: where the uncool is irresistible", Daily Telegraph, 26 July 2010, retrieved 2011-07-31
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