Damian Joseph Cowell[1], also known by his former stage names Humphrey B. Flaubert and DC Root, is an Australian musician who is best known as the frontman for TISM, Root!, The DC3 and Damian Cowell's Disco Machine.
In the early 1980s, he was part of a little-known group called I Can Run, featuring future TISM bandmate Eugene Cester.
The group enjoyed underground success in the late 1980s and reached the ARIA top 10 in 1995 with their album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons.
[3] During this period Cowell was commissioned by David Walsh to create a soundtrack for his Museum of Old and New Art.
The line-up of his current band, Damian Cowell's Disco Machine, consists of:[citation needed]