Loudhailer Music

Rich & Lou Duffy-Howard

music & heritage Projects

Welcome to our website. There is plenty to see and hear if you have a click around the site and you can find our music in all the usual places. Hope you enjoy it.

Latest News!

Red Guitars: 🎸 Undead Guitars rise from the ashes of Red Guitars 🔥

We have a new single and video, ‘Beyond the Blues’ out now.

Red Guitars founding members Hallam Lewis, John Rowley, Lou Duffy-Howard, and Matt Higgins have a new name – Undead Guitars – and new music. Originally 1980s visionary Indie band, Slow to Fade UK Tour 2022, Good Technology UK Tour 2023, new music now 🎶🎸

CLICK HERE to visit our Red Guitars (currently known as Undead Guitars) website.

Rich & Lou Loudhailer – Acoustic Set

Thanks to everyone who came to see us play our acoustic set at Beverley Folk Festival – looking forward to more …

New solo video album, ‘There and Back’ by Lou Duffy-Howard is now out

“Pump up the volume, ‘There and Back’ is a journey into sound …”

“FROM LOU DUFFY-HOWARD, bassist with visionary UK indie outfit Red Guitars, one of the more beguiling concept albums of recent times, ‘There and Back,’ released via DHM.”‘There and Back,’ is a magnificent, first-class journey, a journey which along the way will bring to you a new colour, new dimension, new value, and some great stories.” MusicLoveMusic November 2024

‘There and Back’ is my new solo album of eleven experimental railway journey inspired songs, soundscapes and visuals illuminating a series of train journeys mostly in East Yorkshire. You can find out more and get the album on Bandcamp now: https://loudhaileruk.bandcamp.com/album/there-and-back

The videos are an integral part of each track, you can see all the videos at the link here.

Loudhailer

This is our new Loudhailer single ‘Flight Path’

‘Flight Path’ came about when I heard that some birds changed their flight pattern to avoid the war over Ukraine. The song is about the leader of a flock of birds flying over beautiful countryside and oceans, and also aware of war zones and devastated nations. The bird leads the flock, observing the world below.

You can get listen, download and stream on all the usual platforms and from Bandcamp here: https://loudhaileruk.bandcamp.com/track/flight-path

If you listen, we hope you enjoy it, and if you download it, thank you.

Open Bridges Hull

Open Bridges: Open Bridges & ‘A River Full of Stories’ is our contunuing culture and heritage project.

Now published, ‘Hull’s River Bridges’ project is a part of Heritage Open Days 2025, England’s largest festival of history and culture.

We publish regular new posts and stories, have a look at our Open Bridges website here

Agent Starling

Agent Starling is a musical adventure featuring real instruments, hurdy-gurdy, bass, violin, cello, hypnotic drones, vocal harmonies & spoken words, interwoven with found sounds and manipulated electronic synthesised tones. New album ‘Surrealist Enigma Musica’ released on 13th March 2026.

Agent Starling are Quentin Budworth, hurdy-gurdy; Lou Duffy-Howard voices, bass, programming, and Dexter Duffy-Howard, violin. brimful of catchy hurdy-gurdy tunes, new songs, hypnotic drones, vocal harmonies, live bass grooves & strings, all with an experimental edge.Visit our website for music, videos and info here: Agent Starling website