| Intro | British drummer |
| Is |
Musician Guitarist Drummer |
| From |
United Kingdom |
| Type | Music |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 5 December 1980 |
| Age: | 39 years |
Shïan Smith-Pancorvo (born 5 December 1980) is a gender-fluid British musician and author. In 1994, while at Highgate School, he began his career alongside his brother, Ben Fox Smith, as drummer and backing vocalist for Stony Sleep. Since Stony Sleep split up, he has played drums for Flying Mango Attack with Anno Birkin, Razorlight with Johnny Borrell, and then again for his brother’s second band, Serafin.
During his 25-year musical career he has composed, produced and performed for many acts including punk-prog collectives French Car & the Bulimic Wizards and GENRE 18, electro-rock act Afterlife, acoustic piano duo Toad and Frog and for the travelling soul-rock solo-artist Tom Eady.
In his life Shïan has also worked in insurance companies, been a market researcher, a kitchen porter, a salesman and an English teacher whilst living in Colombia for six years.
He has also written the first book in a series of auto-biographical/observational works, From Stony Sleep to Razorlight, published September 2017.
Shïan resides between Cali, Colombia and Brightlingsea, Essex.
Discography
- Stony Sleep – Music For Chameleons, 1996 (drums, backing vocals, percussion)
- Stony Sleep – A Slack Romance, 1998 (drums, backing vocals, percussion)
- Flying Mango Attack – Karmageddon, 1999 (drums, percussion)
- French Car & The Bulimic Wizards – Refuse To Believe, 2003 (vocals, composition, drums, guitars, lyrics, keyboards, production)
- Razorlight – Up All Night, 2004 (drums, backing vocals, percussion)
- French Car & The Bulimic Wizards – Religion Is Good For You, 2004 (vocals, composition, drums, guitars, lyrics, keyboards, production)
- French Car & The Bulimic Wizards – Like You Were Born Addicted, 2005 (vocals, composition, guitars, lyrics, keyboards, production)
- French Car & The Bulimic Wizards – Sister of Art, 2006 (vocals, composition, guitars, lyrics, keyboards)
- French Car & The Bulimic Wizards – A~Tension Superior, 2007 (vocals, composition, guitars, lyrics, production)
- Serafin – To The Teeth, 2008 (drums, backing vocals)
- GENRE 18 – A Floydian Slip, 2010 (vocals, composition, lyrics, guitars, production)
- Toad and Frog – Beat Death, 2013 (vocals, composition)
- Tom Eady – State Of The Animal, 2018 (production, drums, backing vocals, guitars, keyboards)
- GENRE 18 – Anno’s Saga, Part 1, 2018 (vocals, guitars, composition, production)
Filmography
- UKfrenia – a short film by Gisler Garces Vargas, October, 2017 (lead actor)