Seafront – An Imaginary Band with a Real Voice

Welcome to Seafront

Seafront (1993–2001) → Brett Jones solo career (2004–2023) → Seafront reformed (2025–)

I have been writing poetry and words since 1992. Every lyric in the Seafront project — and in Brett Jones’ solo career — comes directly from my poetry archive at The Boy Behind The Glasses.
This project exists to give those words another way to live.

Seafront began from a curiosity about Music AI. I became aware that “AI music” tools existed, including Suno, and I wondered if they could be used creatively rather than superficially. What interested me wasn’t imitation, but transformation: could I turn my writing around and hear it differently? Could AI help my poems become songs?

Growing up in the 1990s, I had always loved the idea of bands as living stories. Albums weren’t just collections of tracks; they were chapters in a career. I began to ask:
What if I invented a Britpop band? What if I gave them a believable life? Albums, singles, B-sides, changes in sound, creative tension, success, uncertainty, a split, and maybe one day a return.

At the same time, I already had a writing archive going back to 1992, full of real emotions and authentic words from those years. That became the foundation. AI would make the music, but the voice would always be mine.

The name Seafront came from my hometown of Southend-on-Sea in Essex. I briefly considered The Tide, but it felt too early-90s. Seafront felt stronger and more grounded. In a seaside town, the seafront is where memories collect: movement, waiting, excitement, endings, beginnings. In my head, the whole band came from Southend.

Originally, Seafront was only meant to be a small experiment. A couple of albums. A playful “what if?”.
But the story grew.

I imagined:

A rise in the mid-1990s during Britpop

A desire to push beyond that scene

A search for artistic credibility

And a quiet split in the early 2000s

That is precisely how the band’s first era was shaped.

After the split, I imagined the singer, Brett Jones, making one stripped-back solo album: Folk Storeys. But the solo work grew into a full career, and Seafront became a complete musical universe rather than a short idea.

In my head, if Seafront ever reformed, it would not be for nostalgia or tours. It would only be to make new music.
That is where Compassion For Beginners comes in. In 2025, Seafront reform not as a legacy act, but as a living band continuing their story. A new era begins.

So the timeline becomes:

Seafront original era: 1993–2001

Brett Jones solo career: 2004–2023

Seafront reformed: 2025 onwards

Seafront – The Project
Seafront is a fictional but fully realised Britpop band, formed in Southend-on-Sea in 1993.

Line-up

Brett Jones – lead vocals

Paul Chambers – bass

Tom Peterson – drums

Scott Jones – rhythm guitar

Jess Holliday – vocals / guitar (joined 1995)

I have built their entire discography album by album and single by single, using my poems as the lyrical source. The challenge and the joy have been staying true to 1990s Britpop culture and sound, while preserving the original words wherever possible.

This project is not monetised.
It exists as a creative archive on the Suno platform and as part of my wider writing work.

AI is not a shortcut here. It is a tool.
I work within its limits, shaping, refining, arranging, and curating every release so it feels honest to its time, its sound, and what Brett would realistically be making at each point in his career.

I create:

All artwork

All album concepts

All singles and B-sides

All timelines and discographies

The words are always mine.
AI simply gives them sound.

The EPs – Markers of Change
The EPs sit as important signposts in Seafront’s story:

Reach For The Bars (1996)
An early statement EP, capturing the band’s rise and sharpening their Britpop identity.

So Last Century (1999)
A transitional release, closing the original Seafront era and hinting at change before the split.

Seafront Albums
Hard Working Songs For Lazy People (1995)

Personal Commuter (1997)

Pier Pressure (1998)

Café Culture (2001)

Compassion For Beginners (2025) – Seafront reformed, a new beginning

Electric Rainbows (2026) – forthcoming

Brett Jones – Solo Albums
The solo work represents reflection and aftermath. Where Seafront is collective and loud, Brett’s solo albums are personal and inward.

Folk Storeys (2004)

Thirty-Love (2006)

Highlights, Lowlights and Lowlifes (2009)

Eventually Even High Fliers Have To Land (2013)

The Moral Low Ground (2015)

Love Who You Want (2017)

Love Life To The Full (2018)

Matchbox (2021)


Compilations
High Tides and B Sides (2000)

Sundae Best (2025)

EPs
Reach For The Bars (1996)

So Last Century (1999)

Love Who You Want

Love Life To The Full

Because platforms and policies around AI music are constantly changing, this website will become the permanent home of the Seafront project. Here I will be documenting each album in detail, explaining its place in the band’s story, its sound, and its relationship to my writing. Listening links will be shared via Suno, which currently hosts the complete archive of Seafront and Brett Jones releases.

You can listen to Seafront here via Suno, where the full catalogue is available and regularly updated.

https://suno.com/@jamesg75

Or (for now)

https://seafrontband.bandcamp.com/

This project is not about recreating the past.
It is about giving my words another way to live.