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:: Teenage Snuff Film  Ref: COOKCD199
 
 
 
Teenage Snuff Film

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Rowland S. Howard was thrust into the Australian music scene at the tender age of 16. The year was 1976. He had formed the infamous Young Charlatans and wrote what is possibly Australia's most enduring cult hit Shivers. One year later, after the nth departure of Ollie Olsen, he left to go rogue in the Boys Next Door (later The Birthday Party) with Nick Cave, significantly changing their direction.

Upon their arrival in London (a journey completely self financed, something virtually unheard of at the time), they entered a world of Faginesque squalor and degradation, while at the same time receiving greater critical acclaim than any other Australian band since the Easy Beats. The Birthday Party was not just a band; it was a way of life. Sadly the band dissolved in 1983.

Since then Rowland has played with Crime & The City Solution, American agent provocateur: Lydia Lunch, a brooding French pop band called Kas Produkt, The Bad Seeds, Barry Adamson, and Primal Scream. Leading finally to These Immortal Souls, a group designed as a vehicle for the many songs Rowland had written over the years. The line up included long-time collaborator Genevieve McGuckin (co-writer of songs for Prayers On Fire & Junkyard) and his brother , Harry Howard.

Wearying of London's malaise he finally fled to Melbourne in 1994. Not soon after his return he began to perform a one man show, looking for a challenge, and also part of his search to get to the heart of the song and to learn how to manipulate his guitar and voice to greater effect. Rowland S. Howard's newer songs possess a clarity and simplicity of statement that in the past was often lost amongst the density of the imagery. Presented in this stark fashion Rowland's songs take on a new subtlety and strength, proving that he is an awesome songwriter and a remarkably evocative performer.

2000 brings the dawn of a new era for Rowland S. Howard. Having dissolved These Immortal Souls he has recorded his first solo album, Teenage Snuff Film with the ubiquitous Mick Harvey on drums, and Surreal Beast, Brian Hooper on bass. Initially a recording of his live acoustic set, it took on a life of it's own ranging from the ballad Silver Chain to the apocalyptic howl that is Sleep Alone.

Rowland calls Teenage Snuff Film his best work in 15 years, closer to his true vision of music. This recording is a Black hole, a vortex drawing you closer until you are swept into its interior. Implode / Explode. It will reconstruct you on a molecular level. Here we go no, one more time, out of the black and into the ether.
 


 


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