Now a solo artist, the celebrated vocalist is set to play gigs in town.In 1993, The Goths went separate ways. After a long hiatus, Johnny returned with a solo career, publishing a few posthumous works of The Goths before releasing his debut solo album, Weather Being,...
Johnny Stowmarries was the guitarist and main writer in the Brisbane duo The Goths, and it was his quirky, rather unique sound which first brought Johnny to the attention of record labels around the world. Johnny: “It was quite unlike anything that was around”. “With...
Interviewer: Best known for being the frontman of The Goths, despite the fact that he's now launched a solo career, my guest today is Johnny Stowmarries In the late'80s he teamed up with Percy Blakeney to fly the post-punk ethereal flag After disbanding in 1993 he...
If you stick around long enough… …you get more and more sophisticated, and then there’s a point where you just want to get back to the energy and the excitement of what it’s like when you were first in a band, and that’s what this foray is really all about, which is...
You said that 1978 was a significant year for you, how significant was it, looking back? Well back 1978 I had a 4 Band Radio Cassette Recorder, I was recording things off Four Triple Zed, and I recorded to cassette loads of Post-punk songs, which were being played on...
I was born in ’66, the youngest in my family. As a kid, I was into all sorts of music from the ’60s and ’70s. My grandfather was a very good pianist and accompanist, he also played the organ and conducted. In 1908, he made a little extra money providing the music...
Interviewer: Johnny Stowmarries, how are you? Johnny: I'm good, just finishing sort of getting this solo record made as well as I hope, which is quite nice. Then I aim to do a show for the solo album, which is a completely different headspace and stuff. Interviewer:...
Interviewer: Going back to the early eighties do you still speak to Mick Wade from Toxic Garden Gnomes? Because I read somewhere that you played guitar and keyboards in Toxic Garden Gnomes before you formed The Goths Johnny: Mph. Yeah, very early on, yeah. I saw him...
Interviewer: Now Johnny, the Evocations album was The Goths third album, and it was also the last album you wrote with Percy Blakeney when The Goths were still together, Say The Goths started say in '87, the regular shows start in '89, the first album comes out in...
Neath solitary hackberry Doth gaze a waiteth dawn Yond gent as apparition sent A bird of night forlorn Yond wraith did lie Yond hallowed grave Twast given one to slayeth Aye, slayeth Twast given one, sepulchre
Of Icarus this night I lament Laid down in gilded firmament, Slicing the heavens,… As felled from above! … …Hath not the sky no omen, no portent?
Johnny, you’ve been around a lot longer than most in today’s music business. I wonder what was it like when you were growing up listening to music. Do you have any early memories from when you started getting into music? Well, not many, I picked up my first guitar in...