Singer songwriter, guitarist & poet. His distinctive storytelling style weaves historical literature and ethereal wave into genuinely unique songs
NEW ALBUM LAUNCHED
Weather Being is a collection of ten classic Stowmarries penned tracks, engineered by Sean Carey, James North and Chris Brownbill at Church St Studios in Camperdown and JNP Studios in St Lucia. It is available as a limited run vinyl pressing and can be streamed on Bandcamp.
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Available on Bandcamp, Weather Being is the first studio album by rock artist Johnny Stowmarries since parting ways with The Goths. Featuring the star-sound engineering of Sean Carey, James North and Chris Brownbill, the album was created as a stylistic distinction from The Goths.
https://stowmarries.bandcamp.com/
LISTEN UP
Weather Being is a collection of ten classic Stowmarries penned tracks, engineered by Sean Carey, James North and Chris Brownbill at Church St Studios in Camperdown and JNP Studios in St Lucia. It is available as a limited run vinyl pressing and can be streamed on Spotify, Bandcamp and a host of other digital platforms.
https://stowmarries.bandcamp.com/
Stowmarries is a singer songwriter, guitarist & poet best known for the late 80s / early 90s Brisbane, Australia band The Goths.
His distinctive storytelling style weaves historical literature and ethereal wave into genuinely unique songs.
The Goths were a permanent fixture of the pre-internet alternative music scene in Brisbane having considerable local success and recording three albums in a creatively fertile period.
Recently Stowmarries published his music on established streaming services and was astonished by the interest from overseas audiences.
In the last twelve months both early recordings and newer material have been published in Leeds UK, EP’d in Brazil, remastered and LP’d in Mexico, and have been getting regular airplay on radio in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Dortmund.
Stowmarries looks to the future. With new material heading for the recording studio and plans for live shows, there will be a backward glance to a relatively untouched back catalogue that is now attracting audiences young and old in reverberant heartlands around the gothic globe.
Midnight broke and I had something she wrote so I went into a dream
I wanted to reply, in fact I wanted to fly to that castle in the sky
I wanted to scream some long lost dream of a Midnight Queen
Midnight stroke was the time I awoke and I went into the street
And all the faces that I see, they make Midnight seem to me to be or not to be
I wanted to scream some Midnight dream of a long lost Queen
I wanted to reply, I wanted to fly.
Midnight by Johnny Stowmarries
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Weather Being Literary References: Wilderness
Lord Byron Portrait by Thomas Phillips, c.1813"The time I came up with Wilderness, in 1989," Johnny remembers, "books, films and music, were all jumbled up in my head." "I first got a thread of the song reading a Moorcock tale called 'Pale Roses'. 'Pale Roses' is a...
Weather Being Literary References: Citadel
Michael Moorcock wrote The Singing Citadel and recorded albums with his band The Deep Fix "I wrote Citadel around 1989/90 when, having gone through a few dormant years, I was back playing gigs again in the city at The Bohemian Cafe". “Earlier through 1984/85, I’d...
Weather Being Literary References: Crusade
It's 'Stories for Boys', a children's crusade. Images may be subject to copyright."Crusade is a very brief, very abstract pastiche of Tales of the Crusaders by Sir Walter Scott", according to Johnny. “One of the History subjects at my school in 1980 was ‘Nineteenth...
Weather Being Literary References: Wilderness
Lord Byron Portrait by Thomas Phillips, c.1813"The time I came up with Wilderness, in 1989," Johnny remembers, "books, films and music, were all jumbled up in my head." "I first got a thread of the song reading a Moorcock tale called 'Pale Roses'. 'Pale Roses' is a...
Weather Being Literary References: Citadel
Michael Moorcock wrote The Singing Citadel and recorded albums with his band The Deep Fix "I wrote Citadel around 1989/90 when, having gone through a few dormant years, I was back playing gigs again in the city at The Bohemian Cafe". “Earlier through 1984/85, I’d...
Weather Being Literary References: Crusade
It's 'Stories for Boys', a children's crusade. Images may be subject to copyright."Crusade is a very brief, very abstract pastiche of Tales of the Crusaders by Sir Walter Scott", according to Johnny. “One of the History subjects at my school in 1980 was ‘Nineteenth...
Weather Being Literary References: Waft Off
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts – Brian Eno–David Byrne, February 1981” Images may be subject to copyright."When it came to 'Waft Off'", Johnny recalls, "I wanted to do something of an old haunted castle ‘trope’. But I wanted to do something also more kind of abstract,...