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In Brief: Margins, The Dirty Three, Matt Banham

News posted Thursday, December 10 2009 at 06:00 PM.
Related: No Through Road, The Dirty Three, Margins.

In Brief: Margins, The Dirty Three, Matt Banham

  • Melbourne instrumental “supergroup” Margins will play their final show of the year next week. The band, comprising members and ex-members of Blacklevel Embassy and Rhythm Bell, will return from a self-imposed six-month hiatus to perform at Melbourne’s Old Bar on December 18 alongside Ned Collette & Wirewalker, Matt Bailey's (ex-Paradise Motel) new band Jupiter/Mercury (featuring members of St Helens and Margins) and Tom Lyngcoln (The Nation Blue). Margins will then go into “lockdown” to continue work on their second album, the follow-up to their debut self-titled LP, which was released through Low Transit Industries earlier this year.

  • The Dirty Three have treated a handful of punters at an English holiday retreat to an impromptu “Don’t Look Back”-style performance of their 1996 LP Horse Stories. The band have been regularly playing Ocean Songs in its entirety, but have yet to trot out its oft-overlooked predecessor in full. The low-key show at Butlin's Holiday Centre in Minehead precedes the band’s appearance at ATP’s 10th anniversary, also at Butlin’s, this weekend. Click here for photos; here for a report.

  • The identity of popular Twitter identity (what’s the world coming to?) @mammaspaghetti has been unveiled – and it’s none other than Matt Banham from Adelaide indie outfit No Through Road. In an interview with Crikey today, Banham said that he decided to out himself because he “kinda ran out of things for her to say”. Mammaspaghetti had attracted a cult following with her pearls of wisdom in broken English. She even managed to land herself an advice column on Defamer Australia.

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