O’Hara’s Playboys were a short lived band of John Dowler’s from the mid-1990s. This seven-song set includes great versions of a couple of Kinks songs, the classic “Dark End Of The Street” and the Foo Fighters “Big Me. All done in Dowler’s inimitable style.

“O’HP’s came together a few years after the Zimmermen’s demise as an acoustic duo, specifically to support Melbourne comedy legends Danger Lowbrow on a series of live shows at the Prince Patrick Hotel In Collingwood. I can recall performing a version of “Baker Street” with massed kazoos playing that song’s distinctive sax riff. For the last two shows, the Playboys morphed into a band with Jim Gamack, Russell Baricevic and Michaela Burke coming on board. When the comedy shows finished, so did the band…”  – John Dowler