Minivan EP
A companion release to John Dowler’s Vanity Project‘s Existential Friend album, this EP features the lead song from the album together with three tracks that are exclusive to this release. Two are covers of songs that were originally released sixty years apart: “Cardinal” by Kacey Musgraves (2024) and “I Need You” by the Kinks (1965). The disc is rounded out with “Changing Times”, a Dowler original that’s been a feature of their live sets for a few years now and finally gets a release here.
And that’s not all: JDVP’s new album Existential Friend is out now on vinyl.
John Dowler’s Vanity Project will be launching Existential Friend on Saturday 25th January at the Catfish, Fitzroy. They will be joined on the night by SIMON JULIFF AND HIS BAND plus MARK SINTON BAND as well as an array of special guests. Facebook event
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Half A Cow is proud to announce the November 29th release of a new album by John Dowler’s Vanity Project, entitled Existential Friend, and the release today of the album’s first single, melodic gem “Hunnicut’s Van”, which dates back to Dowler’s short-lived and unrecorded early 80s power pop group Everybody’s So Glad.
To be released digitally, on LP and on CD, the album is the third by the Melbourne-based vehicle for singer and songwriter John Dowler, a man who was a key figure in Australia’s alternative rock’n’roll scene of the 70s and 80s.
