ROWLAND S HOWARD
Rowland S. Howard has been involved in creating & documenting innovative, unique music since the mid-1970's, all the while cultivating an unmistakable guitar sound, and a habit of writing music & lyrics that are simply to die for.
From writing for various punk fanzines in his native Australia as a teenager, to writing the wildly popular "Shivers" whilst in The Young Charlatans, to becoming an integral part of influential bands like The Birthday Party and Crime & The City Solution... On to forming his own band, These Immortal Souls, with Genevieve McGuckin, Rowland's brother Harry Howard, and drummer Epic Soundtracks. Although they only released two full-length LP's (1987's "Get Lost (Don't Lie!)" and 1992's "I'm Never Gonna Die Again"), the band created a style of music that truly defied definition and held you fixed in a dangerous ethereal noir-lounge galaxy of sex, drugs & rock'n'roll... Collaborating on projects with such artists as ex-Swell Map Nikki Sudden, renaissance woman extraordinaire Lydia Lunch, and former Barracuda Jeremy Gluck...
Producing the 1999 debut self-titled release by instrumental band Hungry Ghosts... To releasing his first-ever solo project, "Teenage Snuff Film" on CD in 1999, on which he was joined by former Birthday Party cohort Mick Harvey, Surrealists/Beasts of Bourbon veteran Brian Hooper, and long-time collaborator Genevieve McGuckin. The full-length CD includes two covers, "She Cried" (The Shangri-La's "He Cried"), and a stunningly beautiful ballad reworking of Billy Idol's bombastic 1980's hit, "White Wedding".
Rowland S. Howard is a man who truly wears his (he)art on his sleeve.