“We met through the Melbourne music scene,” recalls Harvey. Of his erstwhile bandmates, Mick Harvey maintained a close working relationship with Rowland S Howard in the years that followed the demise of The Birthday Party, and also his other projects.
#We were young souls on the junkyard series#
The re-issue of these two solo albums – in tandem with the series of Pop Crimes shows that have seen his material re-visited by former band mates including Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Harry Howard, Genevieve McGuckin and JP Shilo, as well a collaborators Lydia Lunch, Conrad and Jonnine Standish, and uber-fan Bobby Gillespie – should bring Howard’s music to a deserved wider audience while re-kindling the interest of those who go further back.
Following the demise of the Australian post punk band in 1983, he would go on to work with a variety of people including Lydia Lunch, Crime And The City Solution and These Immortal Souls.ĭrugs, alcohol and writer’s block conspired to ensure a slender solo output, and despite releasing two acclaimed albums in the shape of Teenage Snuff Film and Pop Crimes, Howard never quite got the recognition he deserved. Filtering rock & roll through a sonic blender to widen the scope and possibilities of his chosen instrument, Howard and The Birthday Party threw down a gauntlet that still challenges to this very day. Having initially gained notoriety as the guitarist of The Birthday Party, Rowland S Howard remains one of the most idiosyncratic musicians not just of the post punk years, but also of any era.
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