Billy Mahonie

British instrumental quartet Billy Mahonie traced its origins to 1994 and the first collaboration between guitarist Gavin Baker and drummer Howard Monk; the project proved short-lived, however, and both went their separate ways, playing in other bands over the next two years. Inspired by the emergence of the Chicago post-rock movement, in 1997 Baker and Monk reunited; after making a series of four-track recordings the duo recruited bassists Hywell Dinsdale and Kevin Penney, playing their first gig that December in support of Rothko. A split single, also with Rothko, preceded t...