Audrey Studios

13/10/2025

Lost and found this bag under our piano, guitar leads and delay pedal, mask included so may have been there for some time. Message us if it’s yours.

12/10/2025

New reissue tweed cases for my Gretsch babies. After years of cases taking the knocks, (including flipping the station wagon onto its roof and then back on its wheels and smashing into a ditch after a blowout on the deadly Hume, the case was wrecked but the only damage on my ‘65 Tennessean was a bent bottom strap pin) I now arrive at gigs daggily neat. Barb waters trio on at 5pm today Women’s Refuge Center fundraiser at the Lomond Hotel. I’ll be the one with brand new stickerless cases.

06/09/2025

Heaps of laughs, heaps of tears, sometimes at the same time. is amazeballs in this fantastic play. Good for the soul, even if it hurts.

29/08/2025

In the mid 80s my fam bought me an all red Yamaha strat neck and headstock were red too, very 80s. I haven’t played it in 35 years but it’s been under beds and in sheds of 15 different houses. I took it to Anthony at and gave him free agency. He punked the hell out of it with some cool tricks. It lives again as a hybrid Harvester.

15/08/2025

Much of the music recorded at Audrey has its first airing on the fantastic network of public radio in Melbourne. Triple R - 3RRR 102.7FM launch their Radiothon today, subscribe, resubscribe, subscribe a pet, donate, and spread the word. Much of the amazing music scene in Melbourne has been nurtured by volunteers who turn up week after week putting on ace shows spreading our songs and culture, for two weeks we get to give a bit back. Dig Deep Peeps!

28/06/2025

Last day of recording for a soundtrack I’ve been working on all year. A happy mess of instruments and technology. I tried to add You’re in a Mess by the Falling Joys but it wouldn’t let me.

14/05/2025

My little cheesy monster, our Schnook just played a sold out headline show in London town with her band. Life is going too fast.

30/04/2025

Inter generational APRA awards! Melb town hall.

30/04/2025

Inter generational APRA awards! Melbs town hall.

12/03/2025

A trio of new and old. A new version of an old classic, an oldie that’s new to me and a very modern handy one.

17/01/2025

Heaps of fun making this record.

John Dowler's Vanity Project - Existential Friend LP and Minivan EP - OUT NOW!

The Minivan EP is a companion release to the Existential Friend album, Two songs are covers of songs that were originally released sixty years apart: "Cardinal" by Kacey Musgraves (2024) and "I Need You" by the Kinks (1965). The disc is rounded out with "Changing Times", a Dowler original.

Also out today - the vinyl release of Existential Friend. It's a great album!

https://mailchi.mp/046f847821bf/john-dowlers-vanity-project-existential-friend-lp-and-minivan-ep