DOWZER

border of the Netherlands and Belgium. Dowzer officially started in April 2007

when Deny Putman (vocals + guitar), Sandra Heeren (vocals + bass) and

Rik Hagens (vocals + drums) decided to quit their old band and start

from scratch with a more poppy approach and the use of vocal

harmonies. Their first year contained writing a lot of songs and playing

the first small shows. After that first year Dowzer released ‘Concrete

Smiles At Aisle Five’, a 12 song debut full length, in may 2008 (and is

available through Waterslide Records, Japan since 2009) and appeared

on a compilation cd of Kick Ass Records together with TIAS and many

others.

After that Dowzer worked hard to get an amount of shows and they didn’t

stop writing new songs either.

Dowzer has shared the stage with bands as Streetlight Manifesto, Mike TV,

The Living Daylights, The Apers, Gino’s Eyeball and played venues and

festivals in Holland, Belgium and Germany.

Dowzer’s influences range from Motion City Soundtrack to A Wilhelm Scream.

Blended together you get Inspection 12 meets the Descendents meets Teen Idols

(well... that's what we think and what some people told us...)

In December of this year (2009) Dowzer will storm the studio (Studio195:

recorded bands as The Apers, Travolta’s, Dead Stop) again to record

their sophomore record!

‘Concrete Smiles’ shows a band that’s eager to experiment with lots of

influences.

Their next record will show a more solid blend of all those influences which

creates more of an own sound of pop punk filled with vocal harmonies

and not the standard 3 chord song writing. Dowzer also has more to say

in their lyrics than heartbreaks or brainless anthems like ‘drink beer

and party hard’. They sing about living in a small town without a future

and the dumb, drunk, lying, betraying, lazy people they have to bear

with almost every day.