Matthew Bannister- The Dark Backward (2025)
by Matthew Bannister
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Floating In The River Of Time
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In The Beginning
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History Train
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Time Is Passing
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Secret Of The Century
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Bad Time
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Space & Time
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If It Happens
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Hearts Don´t Keep
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Midnight Explosions
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Best Is Yet To Come
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Meet My Maker
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Thank Them
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about
For a CD, please go to:
powertoolrecords.bandcamp.com
The Dark Backward:
an album about time
On Matthew Bannister’s new album he plays in and out of time, on a musical journey back and forth across decades.
Bannister’s musical backstory includes the much-loved Flying Nun 80s band, Sneaky Feelings, through 90s Flying Nun outfit The Dribbling Darts of Love, two well-received Beatles reinterpretations (Evolver and Rubber Solo), various solo releases under the moniker One Man Bannister, and several albums with his regular band, The Changing Same (most recently, The Changing Same Go To The Movies (Powertool, 2023).
In The Dark Backwards he offers up a series of original songs, new and a few old, woven together with the theme of time.
This isn’t a retrospective, he says. “It’s about time…”
A few comments from Bannister, in lieu of album notes:
“Floating in the river of time”
“Time is often described as a river. If so, are we swimming against the current or borne along by it?
“If you’ve ever swum across a river, you’ll know the feeling of being carried away. There’s no point fighting it, you have to go with the flow, resign yourself to beaching several hundred metres downstream…”
“History Train”
It’s partly a nostalgic song about growing up in 70s Scotland, Matthew says.
“History Train” is partly about being a teenage Scottish trainspotter, which had nothing to do with heroin - I hung around stockyards and engine depots, writing down numbers. I was into model trains, too, but swapped mine for a guitar.
Train travel is like an oldies station (sic) - you know where you are going; you’re not going anywhere new. Steam trains pass village greens, through... more
powertoolrecords.bandcamp.com
The Dark Backward:
an album about time
On Matthew Bannister’s new album he plays in and out of time, on a musical journey back and forth across decades.
Bannister’s musical backstory includes the much-loved Flying Nun 80s band, Sneaky Feelings, through 90s Flying Nun outfit The Dribbling Darts of Love, two well-received Beatles reinterpretations (Evolver and Rubber Solo), various solo releases under the moniker One Man Bannister, and several albums with his regular band, The Changing Same (most recently, The Changing Same Go To The Movies (Powertool, 2023).
In The Dark Backwards he offers up a series of original songs, new and a few old, woven together with the theme of time.
This isn’t a retrospective, he says. “It’s about time…”
A few comments from Bannister, in lieu of album notes:
“Floating in the river of time”
“Time is often described as a river. If so, are we swimming against the current or borne along by it?
“If you’ve ever swum across a river, you’ll know the feeling of being carried away. There’s no point fighting it, you have to go with the flow, resign yourself to beaching several hundred metres downstream…”
“History Train”
It’s partly a nostalgic song about growing up in 70s Scotland, Matthew says.
“History Train” is partly about being a teenage Scottish trainspotter, which had nothing to do with heroin - I hung around stockyards and engine depots, writing down numbers. I was into model trains, too, but swapped mine for a guitar.
Train travel is like an oldies station (sic) - you know where you are going; you’re not going anywhere new. Steam trains pass village greens, through... more
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released February 5, 2025
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Matthew Bannister Hamilton, New Zealand
Matthew Bannister is a Scottish-born New Zealand musician, journalist, and academic. Originally from Dunblane in Scotland he
moved to New Zealand with his family when he was 17.
He was/is in NZ Bands like Sneaky Feelings, Dribbling Darts, The Weather & The Changing Same, with Releases on Flying Nun & Powertool.
He´s also recording under the name "One Man Bannister" (Powertool Rec./Thokei Tapes )
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discography
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Feb 2025 -
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Aug 2022 -
Jan 2020
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