Interview with Rowland S. Howard and Ollie Olsen (1977)

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8 жыл бұрын

ABC footage that appeared on Music Around Us. Interview with Rowland S. Howard and Ollie Olsen from the band Young Charlatans.
Big thanks to Melynda von Wayward who uploaded the interview on Vimeo.
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@nikita70 4 жыл бұрын

When a flawless beauty like this gets ruined, it feels like the double damage were done. Still, even if his body got corrupted, that undeniable, intrinsincly, effortlessly charm hasn't taken away, til the end. This way he has grown a link of a long chain of those who were born for a tale and gone for reality, forged from the silver ore of talent, charisma, corrupted beauty and premature departure. When the beauty and talent meets tragedy, an icon is born.

@Blooodhail 4 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness Rowland looks like an angel.... because he is an angel. RIP. 🥀

@christiangasior4244 7 ай бұрын

Looks like heroin and perhaps coke

@user-vs4cn1ob1s 2 жыл бұрын

Give me a time machine, I'll fly to 1977 and pump my heart to Rowland

@user-id7sr5nl5t 2 жыл бұрын

Heeh... Was he gay?

@sahardehkordi 4 жыл бұрын

such a great soul.. wish he was alive

@elizabethhann4028 6 жыл бұрын

Now this IS magical. Rowland s. Howard before he ever met Nick Cave - Rowland when he was only SEVENTEEN! (Aaawww!) - giving his views on punk rock. He looks every inch the Model of Youth here: he looks like a real dandy. Dig that eye makeup! But at the same time, he already looks (although of course he wasn't) vaguely morbid and sickly. JOLI-LAID, as the French say, as opposed to conventionally handsome. There are two really striking moments in this interview, if you ask me. The first really striking moment comes at about 1:40, when the interviewer ask Rowland, "What do your PARENTS think, of your life-style?" and Rowland, laughing, explains, "Oh, they think I'm a WIMP..." - which I thought was hilarious, because it's just what one would expect. The second really striking moment comes near the end, at around 3:01, when the interviewer asks Rowland, "What's 'Broken Hands' about?", and Rowland - cool as a cat - shoots back, "Self-mutilation," with a little shrug, and just the barest hint of a hip sneer in his voice, like he's asking (without needing to ask out loud, of course) "How d'you like THAT?" It's the sound - and, saying it, Rowland has the look - of someone cocky, lucky, and young, someone who's on top and who's going to stay on top, someone who knows more (or thinks he knows more) than his interviewer. That hip sneer returns at 3:16, when he explains that the sort of self-mutilation described in 'Broken Hands' is "NOT as in putting a safety-pin through your lower LIP, trying to be HIP or something..." (and you can just bet Rowland was well aware of the internal rhyme of 'lip' and 'hip'; he knew he was being listened to and he wanted to sound memorable): he knew, and could see through, the cliched assumptions that the interviewer had about "punk rock", and he wanted to upend as many of these assumptions as he could, and to make them seem absurd. Rowland's whole early raison d'etre - in Model of Youth and the Young Charlatans, and in his days in The Boys Next Door - was arguably based on just this absurdifying of punk stereotypes; on putting ironic curlicues around lyrics of teenage angst and punk-rock self-destruction, playing them for arch laughs. The ultimate example of this, of course, is "Shivers" (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eaqYdbya3ajbqYU.html). Anyway, I just wanted to say that I loved this interview. And I'll always love Rowland S. Howard. R.I.P.

@jetboy_ 4 жыл бұрын

wow that was very well put and heartful, I would love for you to compose my suicide note. (lmfao just kidding)

@elizabethhann4028 4 жыл бұрын

@@jetboy_ Thank you. That was very kind of you to say so. I'm a poet, so I always try to put as much care as possible into what I write. By the way, if you want to hear one of my poems, you can click here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtR3Z5SJsbvXfok.html. That's a video of me reciting a poem that I wrote *about* Rowland S. Howard (supposed to be in his voice), called "Rowland's Song." I count Rowland S. Howard - an Nick Cave, and Mark E. Smith (of the Fall) - as major poetic influences. I write poetry that aspires to the condition of rock'n'roll song; I like to think of myself as a rock'n'roll poet.

@jetboy_ 4 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethhann4028 you've got quite a powerful degree of articulation, a gifted individual whom applies it with expertise.

@elizabethhann4028 4 жыл бұрын

@@jetboy_ Thank you. I'm so glad that you liked my poem. Are you fond of poetry yourself? And do you do any writing of your own?

@kavkyplavkyvdavkykoukajina1782 3 жыл бұрын

I usually don't reply to comments, but wow, this is so well written! I've probably never seen such a detailed analysis of an interview, you're very skilled, I really admire that. And also it's always very great to see other people sharing love for Rowland, he was a wonderful and incredibly talented man. Rest in peace, Rowland, we miss you.

@mjh5437 4 жыл бұрын

It must have taken guts to look like that in Oz in 1977,I spent 6 months in Sydney in 1981 as a teenage Punk and had stuff thrown at me and yobbos picking fights with me nearly every day.

@maryburke5423 2 ай бұрын

Same, except a little earlier. Grew up in Sydney’s Wild West, was not fun. Escaped the minute I left school

@user-yz8jq5cq6c 3 жыл бұрын

Exquisite beauty.

@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws 5 жыл бұрын

He is lovely... I never saw him this young before... I know that sounds daft because I am roughly the same age and lived in Berlin at the same time but he just seems so untouched..

@amonduul2154 4 жыл бұрын

I also never saw him as a healthy young man. I came across crime and the city solution in the early nineties and i found them remarkable. Also the concert of shotgun wedding, when lydia lunch and rowland s. howard played in vienna 92 was great.

@elizabethhann4028 4 жыл бұрын

I think he's lovely too. He's my absolute rock idol. Do you mean you were living in Berlin at the same time he was? And did you see him then? I wish I could have seen him.

@yorkemar 3 жыл бұрын

I love Roland's solo albums and the work he did with Htrk.

@seanobrien698 7 ай бұрын

Love those refined BBC presenter style voices from Rowland and Ollie. Super nice chaps.

@triplesevensix291 4 жыл бұрын

My Dad just sent me Decline And Fall by Evelyn Waugh. R.I.P. Rowland. RIP it up man. I love the fact that like most greats he kept the same guitar & a couple of pedals & his amps. Simple set up but what he did with those few bits was just awesome. Fuckin' boss!

@emile235 8 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for showing this

@satori4183 7 жыл бұрын

Aaaw, such sweet boys! XD

@elizabethhann4028 4 жыл бұрын

I think they're sweet too. I will always adore Rowland S. Howard, but lately I'm becoming increasingly fascinated by Ollie Olsen. He had a long and fascinating career, and he must be one of the only people to have collaborated with both Rowland S. Howard (in the Young Charlatans) and Michael Hutchence (in Max Q). I find it fascinating that Ollie worked with both Rowland and Michael.

@tonysoprano3671 4 жыл бұрын

💌💌💌💌

@user-ob9zo9cr4c Жыл бұрын

best

@user-vs4cn1ob1s 2 жыл бұрын

Why did the most handsome guy in the world die when I was 9 years old?

@browncringe 2 жыл бұрын

you are so right

@styxcreek 5 жыл бұрын

Reading Evelyn Waugh at 17...i didn’t appreciate Waugh till i was in my 50s. Could anyone make out the name of the other author he mentioned?

@mondoprune 5 жыл бұрын

Rock writer Nik Cohn

@styxcreek 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@wildcolonialgirl1602 7 жыл бұрын

Great footage. Can anyone pick up the two authors he says he likes?

@rortydog 7 жыл бұрын

Evelyn Waugh and Nik Cohn (rock journalist).

@citizenerased000 3 жыл бұрын

His guitar sounds more extreme than Keith Levene's. RIP

@mikeydread62 11 ай бұрын

Both influenced by early krautrock bands like Neu!, perhaps?

@citizenerased000 11 ай бұрын

@@mikeydread62 Not a bad comparison, I could see how Can's Michael Karoli guitar playing could be considered "totally out there" and thus extreme for it's time.

@wildcolonialgirl1602 7 жыл бұрын

And do you know who the girls are in the video?

@emmakennedy6055 5 жыл бұрын

Wild Colonial Girl The girl in the leopard print outfit looks like fashion designer Alannah Hill who was a friend of both Rowland and Olsen.

@mjh5437 4 жыл бұрын

@@emmakennedy6055 She was hot!!

@beebop3734 4 жыл бұрын

and quite possibly Anita Lane in the big sunglasses

@BarbieChaite 2 жыл бұрын

Rowland starts by saying he reads books... but at the end... he admits he used to read some books in the past...

@jamesnolan4412 Жыл бұрын

He had a great book collection, Dave Graney in an interview stated while living at the same squat in London Rowland had the first Hunter S Thompson books he'd ever seen .

@andchat6241 3 жыл бұрын

Is the 'we don't sing Pro-Nazi songs' a dig at the group Radio Birdman ?

@layj1611 3 жыл бұрын

yeah, probably just skinhead culture at the time in general too, but idk if there was actually a lot of that in melbourne yet, at the time. These two probably got roughed up a lot if there was, lol

@kimtodd1202 2 жыл бұрын

Radio Birdman pro Nazis, are you fuckin serious?!!? I was around at the time n knew Rob Younger. I say knew coz i split Sydney for London October '89 n am still in dirty ol' London Town. I was quite surprised to read your comment referring to Birdman as pro Nazis. They never came out with shit like that n Rob never spoke to me about Nazis bollox. If i thought they lent that way in the slightest i can assure you that i n many others wouldn't have gone near em with a friggin barge pole. I wonder what put that idea in your head..... The skinhead scene was full on in Sydney n getting a kicking from them, or the suburban yobs, was something regular to look forward to.......TWATS!! Getting a kicking n beating in the 70's thru to the mid 80's was such a common occurrence it became dangerous to go out on your own. Anyone who was around at the time n dressing differently knows what i'm talking about. It was a nightmare tho i look back with pride coz it never once occurred to me that if i changed my look they'd leave me alone. Why don't you ask Rob himself if they were pro Nazis? It's doable.....🎶🍻🎸☮️🏴