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I Killed My Imaginary Friend - new song by Willie Dowling

I Killed My Imaginary Friend - new song by Willie Dowling

I Killed My Imaginary Friend is a new song by singer/songwriter/producer Willie Dowling The song is available to stream and download now. I Killed My Imaginary Friend is featured on Wille Dowling’s forthcoming album of piano driven songs titled 'The Simpleton’ out in the summer of 2024.

Bandcamp Friday

Bandcamp Friday

Today, 7th of April, is Bandcamp Friday Friday, when the music platform waives its share of the revenue on sales so that more money goes directly to the artists. If you don’t already have our music, on Bandcamp you’ll find our new album REFUSE on CD and digital download and our three previous albums - Bleak Strategies, One Hyde Park and See You See Me, as a 3 CD bundle for just £24.

'REFUSE' on Bandcamp Friday

'REFUSE' on Bandcamp Friday

It’s #BandcampFriday - when the popular online music platform waive its revenue share on sales so that more money goes to the artists. The new album from The Dowling Poole is out now. Titled ‘REFUSE’ the album is available as CD and as digital download on Bandcamp. 

New album from The Dowling Poole

New album from The Dowling Poole

We’re The Dowling Poole and we’re back after the longest silence to clog up your email in-box with news of a new album. Titled ‘REFUSE’ this album features all of the ‘digital only’ tracks we have occasionally released for short periods of time, that many of you have asked us to make available on a physical format. REFUSE is available to preorder from today 15th September.

New video – 'The Saccharine Drip'

New video – 'The Saccharine Drip'

Our new single 'The Saccharine Drip’ was released a couple of weeks ago, and today the video for the song has gone live on YouTube. Willie and Jon filmed their parts in different locations in the UK and France, with animation and production by David and Scott at 12 Inch Media.

BE THERE – The Dowling Poole

BE THERE – The Dowling Poole

Hello Everyone,

Our new single 'Be There’ is released today, Friday the 7th of May, for Bandcamp Friday, when the music platform waive their fees and all revenue goes straight to the artists.
'Be There' features guest appearances from long time collaborator Andy Lewis (Jackdaw4, Sugar Plum Fairies, Jocasta), on bass. Darby Todd guests on drums. Darby has recently played with Martin Barr

Interviews & radio - The Dowling Poole

Interviews & radio - The Dowling Poole

Our new song 'Slow Genocide' was released last week via Bandcamp. The song features special guests Tony Wright on vocals and Darby Todd on drums.

The song has been well received so far, and we’ve seen a few write-ups and reviews, including PRM Music online, Steve Swift's Rambling Reviews and Spanish music blog Patty To.
Radio plays include Noise Radio, Eddie Carter's Attention Please,

The Dowling Poole (feat. Tony Wright) - 'Slow Genocide'

The Dowling Poole (feat. Tony Wright) - 'Slow Genocide'

A quick reminder:

'Slow Genocide' feat. Tony Wright on guest vocals is out today on Bandcamp Friday, when 100% of sales goes to the bands.
It's only £1 and we fully expect it to bring down the government within a fortnight.
Darby Todd is guesting on drums.
Here’s a link to the track on our Bandcamp page, which we ask you please to share liberally on your social media pages.
“If

The Dowling Poole (feat. Tony Wright)  -  'Slow Genocide'

The Dowling Poole (feat. Tony Wright) - 'Slow Genocide'

The Dowling Poole release a new song on Friday the 5th of March for Bandcamp Friday. 'Slow Genocide' features special guest vocalist Tony Wright (Terrorvision, Laika Dog and his highly regarded solo albums) with Darby Todd (The Darkness, Kee Marcello and Martin Barr) guesting on drums.

The Trump Chronicles - The Dowling Poole

The Trump Chronicles - The Dowling Poole

To mark a welcome end to an era The Dowling Poole are releasing a five track EP of downloadable tracks. As the title suggests, The Trump Chronicles are all songs on the subject of the idiot tyrant Donald Trump, that stretch from a time predating Trump’s initial run for President, right up until today. All five tracks for just £1.
1) Empires Buildings & Acquisitions - (Bleak Strategies 2014)

Free tracks from The Dowling Poole

Free tracks from The Dowling Poole

Today is the last Bandcamp Day of the year, and we'd like to remind everyone who hasn't already done so to download the three FREE songs available with no strings attached (no email sharing and data sharing necessary.)
'Deep Breath'
'Fuck You Goodbye'
'We Are The Noise'
We'd also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's liked, shared, reviewed, interviewed, radio played an

Fuck You Goodbye - The Dowling Poole

Fuck You Goodbye - The Dowling Poole

We know many of you will have already have this song, but never has Fuck You Goodbye felt more appropriate than now.
God knows he's likely not finished trying to fuck us all over just yet, but you have to take your adolescent joy where you can find it.
With a brand new cover, designed by the talented Sarah Baxter, we've made sure that the song is available for FREE on Bandcamp.
There is n

We Are The Noise – The Dowling Poole

We Are The Noise – The Dowling Poole

Our brand new song 'We Are The Noise' is released today, exclusively on BandCamp and it’s absolutely free, no strings attached.
When you’ve downloaded the song, we urge you to copy it and send it to absolutely anyone and everyone you know. And please send it to all of our American friends who have a hugely important job to do next week. The world is depending on you.
The song was recorded in

All our lyrics now on Bandcamp!

All our lyrics now on Bandcamp!

​Bandcamp Day is here again! It's a good time to check out lots of existing music, from your favourite bands and new and upcoming artists. And don't forget to download our songs 'Deep Breath' and 'Fuck You Goodbye' for free while you're there! We've received several requests for lyrics, so on Bandcamp we've now added the lyrics to the songs for all three of our albums.

'Deep Breath' - a protest song from The Dowling Poole

'Deep Breath' - a protest song from The Dowling Poole

'Deep Breath' is the new single from British band The Dowling Poole, made up by multi instrumentalists, songwriters and producers Willie Dowling and Jon Poole. 'Deep Breath' is released free on Bandcamp on Friday 5th of June.

'Deep Breath' video update

'Deep Breath' video update

Following our last mail out requesting your footage of video material to be cut to our song ‘Deep Breath’, we’d like to thank everyone who's sent us footage so far! We'd like more! See the lyrics below, and we are open to anything that they might suggest to you.

'Fuck You Goodbye' - now on Bandcamp

'Fuck You Goodbye' - now on Bandcamp

Following a number of requests we’ve decided to release the 2020 re-mix of ‘Fuck You Goodbye’ on Bandcamp - for free or ‘pay what you want’.

Buy our music on Bandcamp and get a free track

Buy our music on Bandcamp and get a free track

On the 1st of May ​Bandcamp are waiving their commission and giving all revenue to the artists. Anyone who buys our music on Bandcamp on this day will receive a free track, on this occasion a 2020 re-mix and re-master of the song ‘Fuck You Goodbye’. The time: 1st of May, from midnight to midnight PDT (9am Saturday 2nd UK time) for 24 hours.

UPDATE

UPDATE

We'd like to start this weeks newsletter by saying a big ‘thank you’ to the radio shows that have played songs from our new album 'See You See Me' over the past couple of weeks, including Bob Fischer on BBC Radio Tees, Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music, It's Only Rock n' Roll on Fab Radio International and Attention Please on Nova Radio NE. (Follow the highlighted links to listen to the shows.) 
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