Dublin
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Ireland
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) is the alias of Irish music artist Simon Kenny. He has released one studio album, ''Coping Mechanisms'', and the singles ''Clocked'', ''Jump Ship'', ''C4'' and ''Brailowsky'' to date as Si (rhymes with "sigh") Schroeder.
The single ''Clocked'' was released on 1 June 2012 and is the second release from the forthcoming Si Schroeder LP ''Holding Patterns'', following the release of the previous single ''Jump Ship'' on 22 July 2011.
''Coping Mechanisms'' was nominated for the 2006
Choice Music Prize
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Irish album of the year and released on Irish
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Trust Me I'm A Thief. Influential Irish blogge Nialler9 named ''Coping Mechanisms'' his blog's No 1 Irish album of 2006, as did the '' Foggy Notions'' magazine.
Si Schroeder was one of four music acts selected to represent Ireland at the 2008
Eurosonic Festival
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held annually in
Groningen
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.
Simon Kenny has also recorded and performed under the alias Schroedersound. Throughout most of the 1990s he was one half of Irish indie rock band Schroeder's Cat whose eponymous four-track EP was released in 1998 on the LA label Emperor Norton Records.
Si Schroeder's current band members are Mark Jordan (guitar) and Bryan O'Connell (drums). Previous band members include Ger Griffin (formerly of Rollerskate Skinny), Joss Moorkens, Jimmy Eadie and Brian Mooney (both formerly of
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and Into Paradise), Kevin Brew and Fiachra Lennon. Irish electronica artist Somadrone, aka Neil O'Connor, also a member of The Redneck Manifesto, has also been part of Si Schroeder's live set-up as has Chequerboard.
Si Schroeder has performed on a number of Irish television shows including on RTÉ One's ''
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. He has also appeared on the ''Airfield Sessions'' television programme on the now-defunct Irish television station Channel 6 presented by Irish broadcaster and model
Michelle Doherty
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.
On 15 January 2013 he was a guest on ''
The Dave Fanning Show
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'' on ''
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'' where he played a session that included three songs – ''Jump Ship'', ''Blood's The Colour'' and ''Stop'' – from the forthcoming album ''Holding Patterns''.
He has been a guest of Donal Dineen on his former radio show Small Hours on Irish radio station
Today FM
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and on the
RTÉ 2XM
RTÉ 2XM (stylised as "RTE 2>digital radio service of the ''Stop'' from the forthcoming LP ''Holding Patterns''.
On 20 July 2011 he was a guest on the
RTÉ Radio 1
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arts show Arena where he played two songs from his forthcoming second album ''Holding Patterns'' and conducted an interview with presenter Sean Rocks. He was also a guest on former
RTÉ Radio 1
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programme ''The Arts Show'' on which he discussed the work of Irish visual artist James Coleman.
In January 2012, Irish music artist Sunken Foal made available remix arrangement he created of Si Schroeder's Jump Ship.
In February 2015 Schroeder and Sunken Foal collaborated on a track entitled 'Never Knew' (music by Sunken Foal, lyrics and vocals by Schroeder).
In September 2015 Schroeder completed a score for a theatrical version of Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' for Theater Bonn in Germany, directed by Gavin Quinn and designed by Aedin Cosgrove, both of Pan Pan Theatre company.