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About Me

Harry Flowers is an Australian musician and writer who now lives in England.Here's an apparently random list of things that make his head spin like a top:metaphysics, plentiful wine, rambling conversations, trees, stones, clouds, the earth, the heavens, transcendental experiences, prosaic repetition, deja vu, cats, rats, the underworld, dead cosmologies, primordial forests, ideas that didn't work, forgotten fashions, the insights of small children, depth psychology, old people, smoke, decaying civilisations, signs and symbols, coincidence, forgetfulness, magnetism, hierarchy, scale, phase transitions, urban histories, memory of place, fugue states, sudden lapses in perspective, sex, time travel, pointless imaginings, mushrooms, la belle epoch, surrealism, art nouveau, guitars, antiquities, curios, nostalgia, moments alone, bacchanal celebrations, street festivals, progressive politics, cabaret, certain species of cactus, the glasswork of Lalique, time, space, the divine, the mundane, and everything inbetween.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/08/2005
Band Website: www.harryflowers.com
Band Members: Harry Flowers - vocals, instruments, production; Others - occassional contributions.
Influences: SOUNDS Art of Fighting, Mike Oldfield, The Pixies, Grant McLennan, David Bowie, Roxy Music, The Church, Martin Phillips and The Chills, Kate Bush, Suede, Pulp, The Smiths, REM, Arcade Fire, The Go-Betweens, Ride, The Hummingbirds, Blur, The Strange Death Of Liberal England, Folding For Air, Augie March, The Cure, Falco, Robert Forster, Isidore, Kevin Ayers, Radiohead, Cornershop, Mohair Halo, XTC, Steve Kilbey, The Stares, The Aloha Pussycats, Syd Barrett, Not Drowning Waving, The Byrds, Marty Willson-Piper, My Bloody Valentine, Dead Can Dance, Leonard Cohen, The Ergot Derivative, Mick Harvey, Adam and the Ants, Stephen Cummings, Joy Division, Serge Gainsbourg, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of The Worlds, The Kinks, Duran Duran, Lindy Morrison, Tyranosaurus Rex, Perry Farrell, Pop Will Eat Itself, Chris Knox, Paul Simon, John Lennon, the brothers Finn, Bobby Dylan, The Sisters of Mercy, Mike Batt, The Albion Country Band, Bauhaus, The Triffids, Flock, Miles Davis, Donovan, etc., etc., WORDS Mervyn Peake, J.K. Huysmans, Oscar Wilde, Clive Barker, Jeanette Winterson, John Milton, Dorothy Porter, Italo Calvino, William Faulkner, Arthur Rimbaud, Franz Kafka, Jean Paul Satre, Alasdair Gray, Sir John Mandeville, Robert Holdstock, Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi, Leonard Cohen (again), Will Self, Angela Carter, Rjurik Davidson, Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Carver, Simon Parker, Lautremont, Paul Verlaine, Patrick McGrath, Johnny Keats, Quentin Crisp, etc., etc., IMAGES Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Marc Chagall, Xul Solar, Max Ernst, Jacek Yerka, Giorgio de Chirico, Oskar Kokoschka, Aubrey Beardsley, Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake, Gustave Moreau, Mikhail Vrubel, Francisco Goya, etc., etc., etc.,
Sounds Like: Whiskey sours...crumbling towers...wasted hours...golden showers...
Record Label: Nouveau Tattva (self release)

My Blog

She Reads Faulkner

From 2000 to 2002 I lived in a little flat on Abbotsford Street in North Melbourne, just down the hill from the Royal Children's Hospital. I was 27 years old when I moved into this place (an old ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

The disembodiment of excess

The Discarnate record has now been released in it's entirety and will remain on the harryflowers.com website for a little while yet. You are all welcome to download and enjoy it while you can.A couple...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Discarnate

Yes, well, I've got this new record. It's called DISCARNATE, which is sort of a sequel to 2005's INCARNATE...only not really. You'll see. I haven't launched the new website to host the first song quit...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:36:00 GMT