He joined the rock group Little River Band (LRB) in 1981 on lead guitar and vocals and ceased performing with them in 2006.
[6] Housden, on lead and slide guitars and backing vocals, joined Little River Band (LRB) in August 1981, which were then based in the United States.
[6][9] LRB's name, logos and trademarks were signed over to a holding company, We Two Pty Ltd, with its members as directors in equal share.
[13] Outside of his duties with LRB, Housden continued as a session musician on albums by Doug Ashdown (1983), Normie Rowe (1984), Brian Cadd (1985) and Marc Hunter (1986).
[6] He was a session guitarist on James Reyne's Electric Digger Dandy (1991) and Goble's two solo albums, Nautilus (1993) and Stop (1995).
[17][18] According to Guitar Nine's reviewer it is "chock full of tasty licks and melodic themes" and "marked by a tasteful sense of phrasing, while commanding your immediate attention.
[13][14][19] They had formed a trio, Birtles Shorrock Goble, earlier that year, and sought to advertise themselves as "The Original Little River Band" or similar.
[13][14][19] After Housden demonstrated his ownership of We Two Pty Ltd, a settlement was reached whereby the trio would not "use the band name, trade marks or logos".
[14][19] Solicitor Ron Tait, for Birtles, Goble and Shorrock, reflected on the settlement, "Legally it's a fair outcome because it's proper, the documentation was all there and the evidence was all there, but from the point of view, as I said before, of their heritage, it galls them slightly.