Known as Phil Bowering. A New Zealand muscian, and double bass player. Born in the United Kingdom, grew up in New Plymouth. Studied jazz improvisation under Colin Hemmingsen at Wellington’s Creative Music School. Known for his groups Outlines, The Protons, Low Profile, and Potent Brew, and a highly experimental musical output. After some commercial success in the late 1980s, he continued to perform in a number of ensembles in the UK, Auckland and the Taranaki.
Bowering, Philip Graham, 1956?-2024
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[Posters and newsletters concerning the release of sound recordings, mainly of popular ...
Date: 1980 - 1989
By: Flying Nun Records
Reference: Eph-C-PHONO-1980s
Description: Includes: Accident Compilation. Limited cassette release out now. [1984]. Alpha 2. New album: Phenomena! out on Ocean records, Cassettes & Video. [1983]. 2 copies. Audio Club. Take any 3 records of cassettes for just 99c each. [1980]. Axemen. A scar is born. 1984. Ballon d'Essai. E.P and comic. Fnooz. Single out now. [1984]. [Poster designed by] M[att] Campbell (Sticky H.B.) Ballon d'Essai. E.P. and comic out now. Ballon d'Essai grow up. [1984]. (Shows illustration based on childhood photos of band members - pers.com. from Matt Goody, 25 February 2015) A big record sale. Wellington Town Hall. Sat 13 July [1985]. A big sale of records old and new. Wellington Town Hall, July 13th [1985]. 2 copies. Introducing Blue Factory cassette distribution. Tribal War ... Tribes .. [1980s?] The Bottletops EP. Onset-Offset 1983. Phil Bowering. Wolves of Power / Mutants (as a result of nuclear fallout). Mixed at marmalade Studios 1/5/82. [1982]. The British pop collection. 60 original top ten hits. [With notes compiled by New Zealander Bruce Ward). [1983?] Shayne Carter + Peter Jefferies. Randolph's coming home ; Hooked, lined & Sunken. F[lying] Nun. [1986]. The Chills. Rolling Moon. Now back in stock. Flying Nun. [1983]. Jeff Clarkson. One to one. Available now at all record stores [illustration by] Phillip Andrews, '83. [1984] (2 copies). Crystal Zoom existence. "More base". New C60 cassette from Contraversial [sic] "Dunedin" grapefruit. (Shows Bruce Mahalski in a sheep mask - pers. com. from Matt Goody, 25 February 2015) Diatribe. "Too lazy". Debut EP out now on Warrior thru WEA. [1983; confirmed date] Eric Glandy Memorial Big Band. Adrenal Glandy. Songs of love, hate and revenge. [1986]. (2 copies) Flying Nun Records. "Show me to the Bellrope". Pay no more than $6.99. [1982]. The Fold. Woman in red. Flying Nun 1986. 2 copies. Hardedge Records present Hallowe'en Oct 31st 1985. ... Record release "Flaming soul" by Flesh D-Vice, with special guests The Glass from Auckland. [1985]. Garage 3. 5c a page, buy all 20. Double Happy "Double B-side"; Verlaines "Death and the Maiden"; The Great Unwashed "Singles E.P." [1985]. Garage 6. Alpacas, Bats, Clean, G[reat] Unwashed, Chills, Fetus Prods, S[trait]J[acket] Fits & Washing Up [ca 1985?] The Great Unwashed. "Clean out of our minds" from Flying Nun Recording Company. Buy now. [1983]. [Design by] Alec HMV. The Good Old Boys / Bad Girls. HMVNZ 5. Headless Chickens. Record out now on Flying Nun. [1986] The Henchmen. We've come to play! On sale now [Jan 1984]. (2 copies) The Kiwi Animal. "Wartime" record out now, new. [1983]. 2 copies. Kiwi Pacific Records Ltd. The beautiful sounds of New Zealand. On cassettes and records. [1989?] Kiwi-Pacific Records. Special new releases. Kiwi Records & Cassettes. A homestead in New Zealand; Yje Tartan Clansmen - Flower of Scotland. [1987?] Bunk Records presents Culture? The Knobz. Available now on Bunk. "Culture". "Chipping away". [1981]. Kodukotus; songs of Estonia. EOS Digital. With Anne Reissar, Colleen Rae-gerrard, Deborah Rawson, Anna Christensen. EOS Records, Wellington Look Blue Go Purple. Out now Flying Nun. [1986]. Meltdown Records presents "Melt Down Town"; a compilation of 11 great Palmerston North bands: The Remarkables, Thin Red Line, Three Leaning Men, Cement Garden, The End, Iceland Bars, Polar Bears, Swiss Kids, Statmux, Harry Death, Coloured Talk. [1986]. Mockers. New single "Swear it's true". Album out soon (Keep your peepers open for it). Reaction. 1984]. Mole Manne. Obituary. LP out now! [1984]. 2 copies. Music World Times. Special home edition. [1981]. Number Nine. "Nowhere fast". Album out now [1987] PG and the Hot Tips. Available on CBS Records. [1983?] The Puppettz new single out now. Identity Crises. Mims Promotions, Box 6157. [RCA] Music supermarket stock check list. [1982]. Skank Records proudly presents "When the wind blows" record release party featuring: Wed 29 Apr[il] Skank Attack, Wild Poppies, The Jonahs; Thurs 30 Apr[il] Skank Attack, The Primates, Number Nine. Cricketers. [1987]. Smelly Feet [aka Brent Hayward]. 3 songs. Real Record [981] Sneaky Feelings. New single "Coming true" c/w "Wasted time". Out now on Flying Nun Records. [1986] (2 copies) Tall Dwarfs. Canned music. 12" E.P. 7 songs. [1984?] Turakina Maori Girls' College Choir. "The joy of Maori song". [1980]. Tyrant. New Zealand's first metal E.P. out now. Limited to 500 copies. [1984]. Violet summer. [Thanks for everything - Steve Wilson. 1985]. Who Killed Colonel Mustard. "Bored games". Another blockbuster from Flying Nun Records. [1982]. Wild Poppies. "Where is Wellington" and "Stare at the sun". Recorded at Frontier Records by Malcolm Welsford in July'Aug 1987. Poppie Records 1987. (Unfolded record cover for single). Quantity: 45 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (posters). 1 large format newsletter. 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and screenprints, sizes varying below 550 mm
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Greg Fox, and John Henderson and Phil Bowering
Date: 1984
From: Off the Deep End Festival: Sound recordings
By: Bowering, Philip Graham, 1956?-2024; Fox, Greg, active 1983
Reference: MST10-0021
Description: Side 1: Greg Fox. Side 2: John Henderson and Phil Bowering. Quantity: 1 10" reel(s). Transfers: Photocopy of the reel enclosure at MS-Papers-12188.. Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
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Phil Bowering and Friends, and The Membranes
Date: 1984
From: Off the Deep End Festival: Sound recordings
By: Bowering, Philip Graham, 1956?-2024
Reference: MST10-0034
Description: Side 1: Phil Bowering and Friends. Side 2: The Membranes. Quantity: 1 10" reel(s). Transfers: Photocopy of the reel enclosure at MS-Papers-12188.. Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
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Fox, Greig: part of Off the Deep End Festival
Date: [1965-1985]
From: Creative New Zealand: Collections relating to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council and Creative NZ
By: Donaldson, Anthony, 1957?-; Tuwhare, C, active 1983; Laird, Wayne, 1947?-; Duncan, Neill, active 1990s; Porter, Stuart, 1955-; Donaldson, David, 1960-; Ludvigson, Tom, active 1983; Daley, Peter, active 1983; Robertson, Matthew, active 1983; Millard, Ray, active 1983; Besser, Jonathan, 1949-2022; Palmer, Nicholas Sean, 1961-; Abrahall, Steve, 1964-; Watson, David, active 1985; Siegh, Richard, active 1983; Murdoch, Rod, active 1983; Gurr, David, active 1983; Bowering, Philip Graham, 1956?-2024; Robertson, Bruce, active 1983; Daniels, David, active 1983; Wallace, Alison, active 1983; Orange, Chris, active 1983; Hewitt, Paul, active 1983; Cook, Liz, active 1983
Reference: MST10-0009
Description: Title transcribed from Oral History and Sound card catalogue. Quantity: 1 10" reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A83-158) Donated by the Off the Deep End Festival Committee, per Jonathan Besser, Wellington Processing information: Descriptions created from Oral History and Sound card catalogue in 2019. Items have not been previewed as part of processing.
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[Recordings by various groups and individuals]
Date: 1983
From: Off the Deep End Festival: Sound recordings
By: Primitive Art Group (Musical group); Famous Five (Musical group); Daley, Peter, active 1983; Duncan, Neill, active 1990s; Tuwhare, C, active 1983; Hewitt, Paul, active 1983; Laird, Wayne, 1947?-; Ludvigson, Tom, active 1983; Robertson, Bruce, active 1983; Johnston, Barry, active 1983; Bowering, Philip Graham, 1956?-2024; Besser, Jonathan, 1949-2022; Fox, Greg, active 1983; Otis Mace and Friends (Musical group)
Reference: MSC-000986
Description: Quantity: 1 audiocassette(s). Finding Aids: Description sheets of tapes for Off the Deep-End I in folder at MS-Papers-9809.
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Cultral affairs
Date: [1982]
From: Besser, Jonathan, 1949- : Papers
By: Bowering, Philip Graham, 1956?-2024
Reference: MSC-021763
Description: Featuring Phil Bowering on bass Other Titles - Cultural affairs Quantity: 1 C30 cassette(s).
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Free Radicals with Philbo ; Everybody 268, Sonic massage (rough) 452
Date: [1989]
From: Besser, Jonathan, 1949- : Papers
By: Free Radicals (Musical group); Bowering, Philip Graham, 1956?-2024
Reference: MSC-021731
Description: Philbo = Phil Bowering Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s).
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[Recordings by various groups and individuals]
Date: 1983
From: Off the Deep End Festival: Sound recordings
By: Besser, Jonathan, 1949-2022; Black Sheep (Musical group); Bowering, Philip Graham, 1956?-2024; Donaldson, Anthony, 1957?-; Donaldson, David, 1960-; Duncan, Neill, active 1990s; Famous Five (Musical group); Porter, Stuart, 1955-; Sellers, Roger, 1939-2018
Reference: MSC-000989
Description: Also includes many unidentified musicians Quantity: 1 audiocassette(s). Finding Aids: Description sheets of tapes for Off the Deep-End I in folder at MS-Papers-9809.
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Film music excerpts : Buccaneers : Octet
Date: [1979, 1984]
From: Besser, Jonathan, 1949- : Papers
By: Daly, Peter, 1953?-; Daniels, David, active 1983; Mann, Sydney, active 1981-2019; Crawford, Jocelyn, active 1984; Bowering, Philip Graham, 1956?-2024; Hewitt, Paul, active 1983
Reference: MSC-021751
Description: Contents: Intro (from Film Music) -- Crazy room music (from Film Music) -- Street piece (from Film Music) -- Decent on tone row (voice cello excerpt) -- Rock film music -- Radio titles art program -- Organ -- Buccaneers -- Piano improvisation -- Octet (May 1984) Performer: Peter Daly ; Alison Wallen ; David Daniels ; Sid Mann ; Joyceln Crawford ; Phil Bowering ; Paul Hewitt Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s).
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Tape piece (17 Sept, 1984) / Fox and Besser : Octet (rehearsal)
Date: 1984
From: Besser, Jonathan, 1949- : Papers
By: Fox, Greg, active 1983; Mann, Sydney, active 1981-2019; Daly, Peter, 1953?-; Wallace, Alison, active 1983; Daniels, David, active 1983; Crawford, Jocelyn, active 1984; Bowering, Philip Graham, 1956?-2024; Hewitt, Paul, active 1983
Reference: MSC-021723
Description: Contents: Side A: Tape piece -- Side B: Octet -- Enchantment / Bowering -- Dance sequence I (edited) Performer: Side B: Sidney Mann, violin ; Peter Daly, violin ; Alison Wallace, violin ; David Daniels, viola ; Jocelyn Crawford, cello ; Phil Bowering, bass ; Paul Hewitt, drums ; Jonathan Besser, piano Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s).
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Octet (rehearsal)
Date: [1984]
From: Besser, Jonathan, 1949- : Papers
By: Daly, Peter, 1953?-; Daniels, David, active 1983; Bowering, Philip Graham, 1956?-2024; Hewitt, Paul, active 1983; Wallace, Alison, active 1983; Crawford, Jocelyn, active 1984
Reference: MST7-2483
Description: From cassette master "Not great quality" Performer: Sidman ; Peter Daly, violin ; Allison Wallace, violin ; David Daniels, viola ; Jocelyn Crawford, cello ; Phil Bowering, bass ; Paul Hewitt, drums ; Jonathan Besser, piano Quantity: 1 7" reel(s).