Harry
Howard and the NDE (Near Death Experience) are a super group of sorts. Forming in 2010 and featuring two of Melbourne’s most handsome
rock couples, they have released three L.P’s ’Near Death Experience’, ‘Pretty’
and Sleepless Girls’ with Spooky Records and have also been associated with
vinyl releases involving Beast and Crane Records in Europe.
The
band feature songs written and sung by Harry (vocals guitar) alongside Edwina
Preston (keys B/Vocals) ~ writer and former singer of The Moll Flanders Band
and also featuring legendary Australian musicians Clare Moore (drums B/Vocals)
and Dave Graney (unusually on bass guitar) who Harry has known in Australia and
London since 1981. The band have played
extensively in Australia doing shows with Lydia Lunch, Kid Congo, Thurston Moore, The Pop
Group, The Aints and countless others.
Harry’s first professional shows were playing a few dates in the
UK alongside his older brother Rowland S. Howard and Nick Cave in The Birthday
Party even co-writing a track for their Junkyard LP. He went on to play in
Crime and the City Solution with Mick Harvey,
These Immortal Souls and in the Pop Crimes: Songs of Rowland S. Howard celebrated shows in
Europe and Australia. Harry currently fronts the NDE and plays in several other projects including the
electro punk outfit ATOM.
