One Man Bannister "Moth" 2007

Matthew Bannister is best known for being one of the two songwriters in Flying Nun band The Sneaky Feelings. He also went on to front Dribbling Darts Of Love and more recently The Weather. After a break of many years, he is back with his debut solo album under the moniker of One Man Bannister. The title is Moth.Auckland singer-songwriter and sometime member of Don McGlashan's band Matthew Bannister made some of the most charming, slightly unnerving and genuinely lovely music with his Flying Nun bands Sneaky Feelings and Dribbling Darts of Love, and in my opinion never really got his dues.
He thought the same and wrote about his music and life in the Nunnery in Positively George Street. It's definitely worth tracking down.
As is this lovely solo album which finds him hunkered down in his house with guitar and recording equipment for a lo-fi and compellingly intimate album of 18 bitter-sweet but deliciously melodic songs augmented by layering of guitars and vocals.
Bannister is almost profligate with melodies and certainly gives those higher profile local albums (Goldenhorse, Phoenix Foundation, Brunettes) a run for their money in that department.
Moth is apparently the companion to an album (Aroha Ave) with his band the Weather to be released later this year. That is the "proper" album as it were -- a studio, produced by Ed Cake etc -- but in the meantime don't let this little gem pass you by. - Review courtesy of Graham Reid from Elsewhere

trax:
01 TALK OF THE TOWN 02 SUNRISE 03 RECYCLED 04 SPEND SOME TIME WITH ME 05 READ YOUR MIND 06 BEST IS YET TO COME 07 DADDY'S IN THE HOSPITAL 08 GETTING AWAY WITH ME 09 HERE WE GO 10 IF IT HAPPENS 11 HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE 12 LET THEM BE 13 DO YOU LOVE ME 14 NEVER SAW THE MOON 15 NOTHING BAD HAS HAPPENED YET 16 IT ALL COMES RIGHT IN THE END 17 BALMORAL BASH 18 HOW TO BEG
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