Mike O'Neill is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

. He is originally from Oshawa

Oshawa

Oshawa is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It lies in Southern Ontario approximately 60 kilometres east of downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of both the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe. It is now commonly referred to as the most...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, but has been based in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

 since 1996.

Bio

O'Neill was a founding member of Canadian indie-rock band The Inbreds

The Inbreds

The Inbreds were a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1992. Originally from Kingston, Ontario, Canada the band relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1996. Three of the four albums released during the band's existence reached number one on the Canadian national university charts, and the band...

 along with drummer Dave Ullrich

Dave Ullrich

Dave Ullrich is a Canadian musician and entrepreneur.He was the drummer of the band The Inbreds in the 1990s. Following the band's breakup, he formed the independent record label Zunior Records, Canada's first online-only label. "Zunior" is Ullrich's childhood nickname.In 2005, Ullrich started a...

 in the 1990s. The Inbreds released four albums between 1992 and their breakup in 1998, and O'Neill has since released two albums as a solo artist, What Happens Now? in 2000, and The Owl in 2004. Though he played bass guitar in The Inbreds, he has almost exclusively played rhythm guitar

Rhythm guitar

Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

 as a solo artist.

In 2007, he appeared in several episodes of Trailer Park Boys

Trailer Park Boys

Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The...

 seventh and final season, playing the hot tempered character Thomas Collins. He also worked behind the scenes on the series for several seasons as the sound mixer.

O'Neill currently plays in a new two-piece band with Trailer Park Boys producer Mike Clattenburg

Mike Clattenburg

Mike Clattenburg is a Canadian TV and film director best known as creator/director of the TV comedy series Trailer Park Boys , and This Hour Has 22 Minutes...

 called The Self Conscious. On October 22, 2008, O'Neill and Ullrich played a one-off Inbreds reunion show in Halifax as part of the 2008 Halifax Pop Explosion

Halifax Pop Explosion

The Halifax Pop Explosion is a music festival that takes place every fall, two weeks after Thanksgiving, in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada.-History:...

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With the Inbreds

• 1992: Hilario
• 1994: Kombinator
• 1996: It's Sydney or the Bush
• 1998: Winning Hearts
• 2004: The Kombinator Demos
• 2004: B-Sides
• 2004: Live in Calgary 1997

External links

• Mike O'Neill at CBC Radio 3
  CBC Radio 3
  CBC Radio 3 is a radio station that consists of two parts devoted to Canadian arts and music: a radio service which is available on Sirius Satellite Radio and streaming audio, and several daily and weekly podcasts from the CBC Radio 3 website...