Biography
Billy Mahonie formed in in London near the end of 1997 to play instrumental rock music.
The original line-up was Gavin Baker (guitar), Howard Monk (drums), Hywell Dinsdale (bass and guitar) and Kevin Penney (bass). Their first release was a split-single on Fierce Panda with Rothko, followed by a single on Livid Meercat (a Fierce Panda offshoot).
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Their debut album The Big Dig was released by Too Pure in 1999. Despite good reviews for The Big Dig, Too Pure dropped them halfway through recording the follow-up album, but they were picked up by Southern Records and released What Becomes Before in 2001. A third album Dust was released in 2003 on Tritone Records, with a new line-up of Baker, Monk, Duncan Brown (bass) and Tony Barrett (guitar).
In 2005 Oof records released Found, a collection of rarities including their early singles and split-single tracks. Exhale on Mare Street (Unlabel, 2007) was a collection of demos and out-takes. Finally a new album BM by BM was released by Static Caravan in January 2010.
From 2005-2009 the band was just Baker and Monk in the studio, with Penney and Dinsdale rejoining only for occasional live shows; however as of October 2010, according to Gavin Baker, "The original lineup have since reformed, in a manner of speaking, and are working on a new album."
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.