About Lowheart
Jason Lowe: Lead Vocals, Acoustic & Rhythm Guitar, Harmonica, Backing Vocals, Percussion, Occasional Mandolin
Simon Hart: Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Drum Tracks/Production, Backing Vocals, Percussion, Occasional Keyboards
Genre: Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Country Rock
Other Influences: Rock ’n’ Roll, Punk, Metal, Blues, Country, Folk, Alt-Country, Roots/Americana, Southern Rock, Progressive Rock, Alternative Rock, Pop-Rock
Label: Rat Wheel Records, Lowheart Music
Distributor/Publisher: CD Baby
Available from: iTunes, AppleMusic, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal, YouTube Music, Bandcamp, CD Baby, 7 Digital (UK), Pandora (US), Napster (US), Deezer (France), Yandex (Russia), Anghami (Middle-East), NetEase (China), AWA (Japan), Saavn (India), Akazoo (Lux.), Qobuz
Other Online Sites: iHeart Radio, Soundpark, Bandcamp, Reverbnation, Triple J Unearthed, Soundcloud, Last FM, Kurrent Music, Airit, Down in The Valley, Music Bugs, The Music Today, Frogtoon, Darkmp3, Rock AOR, AOR Hard Rock, Metal-Tracker, Box Albums, Melodic Rock AOR, AOR Metal Rock, Rock-n, Get Metal, Park Avenue CDs, Jaxsta, Grooveshark, Hungama, X-Minusovska, Wynk, Tik Tok, Metal Jukebox, Day Rock Melodic, Muzebra, Paragon Music Russia, Hit Muzik, Rock and Metal World.
Albums:
Catharsis (2021)
Rock Du Jour (2021)
Gravel or Gold (2019)
Lost and Found (2016)
Long Hard Road (2015)
Act on Impulse (2015)
EP's:
Roots Run Deep (2022)
Singles:
Keep Coming Back (2022)
Piston Broke (2022)
Take These Times (2021)
Opportunity Lost (2021)
The Other Side (2020)
Complex Times (2020)
Own Sweet Time - as Wilful Damage (2012)
Compilations:
A Slab of Lowheart (2020)
Videos:
Kicked To The Curb
Trash Like You
Own Sweet Time (as Wilful Damage)
Stepping Stone (as Wilful Damage)
Crossroads Again (as Wilful Damage)
Radio: Triple R, Southern FM, Casey FM, Inner FM, Eastern FM, The Pulse FM, 3RPP, 3MDR, 3WBC, 3WAY, 2REM, 2CBD, 3NOW, Gippsland FM, Riot FM, WOW FM, 94FM (Spain). Including several interviews and specials.
Online Radio: Jango, Hard Rock Hell Radio (UK), Eat This! Rock & Metal (Greece), Rock Australia Radio, My Country Australia, ITNS Radio, It's My Country, Radio Highway Pirates, Australian Rock Show.
TV: C31 Nu Country TV
Soundtrack: “Reps” TV Sitcom
History
The Early Years
After meeting at art school and discovering a mutual love of rock music, Jason Lowe and Simon Hart soon began jamming and writing songs together. The duo performed live acoustic and recorded a demo album, “Bitter & Twisted” under the name Wilful Damage. After releasing an online single, “Violence in Your Blood”, the duo released a second album, “Counting The Cost”, which received airplay on radio 3RPP - firstly with the track “Damn The Consequence”, followed by the entire album on rotation. “Counting The Cost” was a straight-ahead hard-edged rock set, along with four ballads, the track “Adult Life Sux” proving popular online.
Wilful Damage then began recording a new album, “Raw Roots Rock”, in more of a country-rock vein, including several covers. Their version of Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” was played on radio 3MDR, and the Monkees cover “Stepping Stone” was later accompanied by a video using live footage. Before the album’s completion, the pair formed a live band version of Wilful Damage and debuted in a spirited performance at The Chandelier Room and released a video for their song “Crossroads Again”, The released a new single “Own Sweet Time” on iTunes, for worldwide distribution via CD Baby that was widely aired on Jango online radio. The magazines Pearl and Country Music Update both published positive articles on the band.
Enter Lowheart
Recording sessions that had begun in early 2013, were halted around October that year due to filming and editing commitments on the Reps TV show. In mid-2014, the duo decided to change their name to Lowheart. Six of the completed tracks from the in-progress “Act on Impulse” album were collected on a CD EP and released to radio. These tracks were played on 3RPP (in a half-hour Featured Artist slot) and 3WBC (in a one-hour live Interview Special) prior to the release of the full “Act on Impulse” album.
The hard-rocking “Act on Impulse” was recorded simultaneously with the more acoustic-based “Long Hard Road” album, and both were released in the winter of 2015. That year, Lowheart reached the #6 position on Reverbnation’s Vic Rock chart (having reached the #7 spot the previous year as Wilful Damage).
To help promote “Act on Impulse” the two put together a video for the song “Trash Like You”. Songs from both albums received airplay on several radio stations, and the duo conducted another live interview special, this time at Southern FM’s studios.
“Act on Impulse” proved particularly popular in Russia, and was also played on radio in Greece and Spain. Recorded in the second half of 2015 and released in early 2016, the third Lowheart album “Lost and Found”, combined the two diverse styles of the previous albums in a crisp country-rock sound. Several tracks from “Lost and Found” again received radio airplay on 3RPP, and were also picked up by 3MDR and 2REM, including “I Ain’t Done” and “Blowin’ a Fuse”.
Another two radio shows to feature Lowheart’s music were “Volcanic Rock” on 3WAY, and “Raised on Rock” on The Pulse. The next album, the brand new release, “Gravel or Gold” continues in a similar vein to “Lost and Found” but with a slightly harder sound overall, and features more out-and-out rockers than its predecessor. “Gravel or Gold” was released worldwide in January 2019.
Influences
Lowheart draw their musical influences from a variety of artists. These influences include the Classic Rock of The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Wings, Led Zeppelin, Creedence, Eagles, Monkees, Queen, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, and Early Elton John, along with the Hard Rock of AC/DC, Warrant, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Skid Row, Poison, and Aerosmith.
Other rock acts that have been big influences on the Lowheart sound are: Jet, Oasis, Ryan Adams, Nick Barker & The Reptiles, Johnny Diesel & The Injectors, Bon Jovi, Airbourne, Paul Kelly, Crowded House, and 80s era U2, as well as Punk bands like Sex Pistols, The Clash, Green Day, and The Offspring. Another influence has been Aussie Country Rock such as Steve Forde, Jasmine Rae, McAlister Kemp, Adam Brand, and The Wolfe Brothers.
In addition to their shared influences, Jason is also a fan of The Beach Boys, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, Weddings Parties Anything, Kiss, The Gaslight Anthem, Johnny Cash, Split Enz, T.Rex, Arctic Monkeys, Good Charlotte, White Stripes, Ben Folds, Train, Easybeats, Billy Joel, Matchbox 20, Counting Crows, Faces, Nickelback, Hinder, The Darkness, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, and Modern US Country such as Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, The Band Perry, and early Taylor Swift. He also loves US Southern rock bands Drive-by Truckers, Black Crowes, and Georgia Satellites, and 90s alternative Rock acts Fuel, Everclear, Live, Foo Fighters, Soul Asylum, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana. He loves 50s Rock ‘n’ Roll, Doo-wop, and blues, all-eras Elvis, and the great US heartland rock trio of Petty, Mellencamp, and Springsteen, as well as Oz Rock bands Hoodoo Gurus, INXS, The Angels, Grinspoon, You Am I, Powderfinger, Screaming Jets, Australian Crawl, Whitlams, The Sharp, Cold Chisel, and The Living End.
Simon is also a fan of Progressive Rock acts such as Marillion, Yes, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Mike Oldfield, Brian Eno, King Crimson, and Alan Parsons Project. He also loves many Heavy Metal bands such as Megadeth, Motorhead, Ratt, Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne, Dream Theater, Slayer, Faith No More, Metallica, and Dragonforce. He was also influenced by 80s acts such as Big Country, Nik Kershaw, Phil Collins, The The, Depeche Mode, The Police, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Billy Idol, The Smiths, and Def Leppard. His diverse musical tastes also include electronic acts such as Tangerine Dream, Jean Mi- chael Jarre, Vangelis, and The Orb, the jazz of Pat Methany, and the Irish folk of Clannad.