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Howling Owl

Sleaze With Tease

About Me

Howling Owl will be a real band if it plays live. Until then it is Nick Powell's recording project, kicked into life by Simon Trought (Tompaulin and Mathew Sawyer and The Ghosts) at the Duke of Uke studio, Spitalfields, London. Simon plays bass, guitar and mandolin, Matthew Reynolds plays uke on Duke of Uke and Nick plays most guitar parts, drums and harp – and sings.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/22/2008
Band Website: howlingowl.co.uk (under construction)
Band Members: Nick Powell and anyone who plays blues/roots in London who'd like to join...
Influences: Nick: ’Musical sleaze from ZZ Top, Lowell George and Little Feat, Ry Cooder (particularly Southern Comfort), Allman Bros, Jeff Beck and John Lee Hooker, and the Stones – Mick Taylor era. Little Walter, Steve ’West’ Weston and Magic Dick (J Geils Band) on harp, church music, Michael Chapman’s great voice. Tease from Charles Addams of the New Yorker, the greatest cartoonist of all time.
Sounds Like: Simple blues riffs, a bit of swamp rock, some wailing harp, overdriven slide. Raising a pig is true – we made sausages and black pudding. One Last Bite came from Mr Creosote in the Python's Meaning of Life but I'd like to use it to draw attention to the plight of Jack Alderman, who has been on death row for 33 years... www.exoneratejack.org
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Oberon

My first band, Oberon, recorded an album in 1971, the summer we left school. and it was privately released in a very small run (I think only 100). This has resulted in its becoming collectib...
Posted by Howling Owl on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:49:00 PST

Tiana with Twelfth Night

Off to the Tiana Festival near Barcelona at the end of May, with my mates Twelfth Night, the reformed prog rockers, who are headlining. I won't be playing (slight clash of genres!) but will be working...
Posted by Howling Owl on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:18:00 PST

£18,000 fake Pétrus in news

Hey, hey imagine if the '61 Pétrus in One Last Bite had been fake! You'd really get the blues...
Posted by Howling Owl on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:49:00 PST

Feedback

Getting some great feedback from you - thanks. If you haven't heard me before it seems to be a bit of a surprise...
Posted by Howling Owl on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:02:00 PST

Hiy’all

Up and running... welcome to the first day. Hope you like it.
Posted by Howling Owl on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:16:00 PST