Born in England in 1952 of English/Irish parents… has played bass and guitar for around 32 years.. starting with various blues groups. His "first love" to then go on to other types of music with: Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias, The Durutti Column and The Mothmen... in the same period he also co-produced (with Bob Harding, fellow ex Alberto and Mothman, now of Blood and Fire records) the first album of the legendary Pink Military Stand Alone a seminal Liverpudlian group in the 80's, after which began to experiment with the newly emerging "electronic music "with the ex Pink Military keyboardist, the avant-garde, Charles J Griffith's " Club 204 "..next stop was another direction, Simply Red... having already experimented musically with Hucknall in '83, he was then called upon to play bass in the newly formed Simply Red along with ex Durutti and Mothmen and Wah Heat! drummer Chris Joyce... he played bass with Simply Red for the first five years, three albums plus various singles and one soundtrack (Frantic ,R. Polanski)... after that, with a pause to start a family he collaborated with the production of various projects with Italian artists such as Vittorio Cosma, Giancarlo Parisi, Eugenio Finardi, Demo Morselli and others… he also produced, arranged and played on " Who Stole The Sky " by Sainkho Namtchylak, an extraordinary female Tuvan singer, he also played on and co-produced Ray Tarantino's first album “Recusant”. Several years ago he revisited his irish roots and now also plays Uilleаn Pipes and flute, (in this case a Bansuri or indian cane side-flute, which is fine for other music too) and is currently compiling a series irish airs done in his particular fashion. Currently, Tony is mainly working with Fil and Lao on PLANTATION

Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias

Profile: Founded in 1973 by Chris "C.P." Lee and Bruce Mitchell (drums), with Les Prior (vocals), Jimmy Hibbert (vocals, bass), Bob Harding (vocals, guitar, bass), Simon White (steel guitar, guitar), Tony Bowers (bass, guitar) and Ray Hughes (second drummer).
Inventor of "Snuff Rock".
Band lasted until about 1980