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Billy Mahonie. Mon 6th Oct. Whelans

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  • 30-08-2003 6:41pm
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    johnston
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    Import Promotions Presents
    Billy Mahonie
    + Guests TBC
    Monday 6th October 03
    Whelans, Wexford Street
    Doors 8.00pm
    Adm 10 Euro


    Import Promotions is proud to present the return to Dublin of Billy Mahonie.


    Billy Mahonie formed in in London near the end of 1997 to play instrumental rock music. The original line up consisted of Gavin Baker (guitar), Howard Monk (drums), Hywell Dinsdale (bass and guitar) and Kevin Penney (bass). The first incarnation of BM released two albums: The Big Dig (Too Pure, 1999) and What Becomes Before (Southern, 2001) and quite a number of singles, EPs and compilation appearances. They have toured Europe and UK and have enjoyed numerous radio sessions.

    At the start of 2002 the band decided to take a few months off. This period eventually saw both original bass players leave, but by the end of 2002 Howard and Gavin had recruited Duncan Brown (ex-Stereolab) on bass and Anthony Barratt (guitar). Howard and Duncan had previously played together in Bows, with acclaimed novelist-musician Luke Sutherland. The new line-up of Billy Mahonie made its debut in December 2002 and immediately appeared on a John Peel session featuring bands from the Two Minute Men releases on Jonson Family Records.

    It’s an unlikely mix of musics, perhaps, where hardcore metallics speak in krautrock accents about the possible redeeming features of progressive rock. There are also strong electric folk melodies, and a nod and a wink at jazz rock. For all these disparate influences, Mahonie’s reputation continues to be forged in their intense and engaging live sets. A new band and yet a continuation, BM set about their own trademarks of taut, yet expansive instrumental music that is by turns muscular, pumped-up and cathartic, then fragile, intricate and introspective.

    2003 has largely been a period for writing new material. Another new album is set to follow on the heels of No Blood For Dust in the New Year. The band have also been putting together a remix record. Nightmare City, featuring reworked versions of this derailed, runaway train of a track. A version of Nightmare City is to feature on the soundtrack for Dias de Carton, a harrowing documentary film from Argentina about the extremes of poverty since the recent economic collapse in that country. Mahonie also feature on a forthcoming compilation from Sink and Stove Records and a compilation of earlyand rare BM singles and EPs is also in the pipeline.

    Following a short Spring tour and a number of gigs throughout the year, BM is now set to tour in support of No Blood for Dust, to be released on Tritone Records. No Blood For Dust features five new tracks. The brooding, slow fused crescendo of We Totally Almost Died, the GlitschFolk of Semapho, the off-kilter boogie of Red Crow, and the extended, exploratory moodswings of (No Blood For) Dust and Lullaby.

    www.billymahonie.com

    www.tritonerecords.co.uk


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