Dead: Rowland Howard

Promethium · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:46 pm

http://www.theage.com.au/national/rowla ... -ljxn.html

MELBOURNE musician Rowland S. Howard - the guitarist in Nick Cave's cult punk-era bands The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party - died yesterday at the Austin Hospital from liver cancer. He was 50.

Howard wrote the 1979 cult hit Shivers for The Boys Next Door. He then played with Cave in The Birthday Party until the influential band split in 1983 amid turmoil and drug abuse.

Long-time friend and Birthday Party bandmate Mick Harvey, who played drums on Howard's newest, critically acclaimed solo album Pop Crimes, said Howard did not want to die.

tentoze · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:48 pm

Promethium Wrote:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/rowland-howard-hangs-up-his-guitar-for-keeps-20091230-ljxn.html

MELBOURNE musician Rowland S. Howard - the guitarist in Nick Cave's cult punk-era bands The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party - died yesterday at the Austin Hospital from liver cancer. He was 50.

Howard wrote the 1979 cult hit Shivers for The Boys Next Door. He then played with Cave in The Birthday Party until the influential band split in 1983 amid turmoil and drug abuse.

Long-time friend and Birthday Party bandmate Mick Harvey, who played drums on Howard's newest, critically acclaimed solo album Pop Crimes, said Howard did not want to die.

Now, THERE'S some insightful shit.

Mick · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:28 pm

Dude just put out the record and single of the year, and no one fucking listened to it.

R.I.P. to one of the most influential musicians of the last thirty years, and one of the few good ones left.

And shame on you, Obner masses. I put the record up and made a thread a month or so back and it drew no response whatsoever.

Vanlandingham · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:19 pm

Mick the Stripper Wrote:

Dude just put out the record and single of the year, and no one fucking listened to it.

R.I.P. to one of the most influential musicians of the last thirty years, and one of the few good ones left.

And shame on you, Obner masses. I put the record up and made a thread a month or so back and it drew no response whatsoever.

Sorry man, life's been hell lately. Re-up?

Mick · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:00 pm

Vanlandingham Wrote:

Mick the Stripper Wrote:

Dude just put out the record and single of the year, and no one fucking listened to it.

R.I.P. to one of the most influential musicians of the last thirty years, and one of the few good ones left.

And shame on you, Obner masses. I put the record up and made a thread a month or so back and it drew no response whatsoever.

Sorry man, life's been hell lately. Re-up?

link in my top three thread:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=44837

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:26 pm

Mick the Stripper Wrote:

Dude just put out the record and single of the year, and no one fucking listened to it.

R.I.P. to one of the most influential musicians of the last thirty years, and one of the few good ones left.

And shame on you, Obner masses. I put the record up and made a thread a month or so back and it drew no response whatsoever.

Yeah, I was late coming to this one. It's very good, and probably one that I'll wish I included on my top 20 a month from now.

Don't expect the Obner masses to listen to anything outside a narrow margin. We mostly exist in mom and pop suburbia now.

Promethium · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:49 am

Thanks for the link to the album.

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