Patrick Clarke
, February 22nd, 2021 10:10
Ed Dowie speaks to Patrick Clarke about the making of his bold and beautiful second solo album ‘The Obvious I’, informed by his experience in choral, pop and experimental music, and a newfound focus on the personal
Photos by Felicity Hickson
You can neatly divide Ed Dowie’s musical education into three distinct phases. As a child he was a chorister and taught piano by his composer father. In his late teens, he formed Brothers In Sound alongside Paul Hanford and Andy Guttridge, with whom he lapped up the joys of a flush late-90s music industry and released three sublime lo-fi psychedelic pop EPs on Regal Recordings, later collected as the band’s one and only album