It was said that one of the original members Kim Russell AKA

Kim OZ was discovered by another founder member Gary

Masters AKA Gary Moonboot when he heard her singing in the

bath and promptly climbed through the bathroom window and

invited her to join the band. In addition to becoming a member

of the Magic Mushroom Band Kim has subsequently become

Mrs. Masters.

The band has had many members over the year with members

sometimes coming and going in twos or threes, although the

core trio of Masters, Russell and Guitarist Gary Twining have

remained throughout the band’s history. Initially the band

released a limited edition cassette, which was limited to a run

of 1,000 copies. The cassette idea was to remain popular

even while the band were releasing proper albums and all

of these cassettes are now highly prized collectors items.

The Magic Mushroom band has also released nine albums

in the period 1982 through to 1994.In 1990 members of the

Magic Mushroom Band embarked on what was to be initially

an offshoot band or part time project if you like. This project

was the Ambient trance band Astralasia which although

sharing members of the Mushroom band were actually more

dance oriented than the Mushies as they were now known.

By 1992 however, the band were devoting about 50% of their

time to the offshoot band Astralasia and were experimenting

more and more with the ambient dance led direction of that

band which has continued up to the present while the

Mushroom Band have been on indefinite hold since 1995.

"Feed Your Head" was recorded on the bands "Stoned Crypt"

tour of 1986 and features some of the bands more popular

numbers in the set including Magick Eye and Jelly Jam. This

previously unreleased recording has now been re mastered

for release and despite the fact that the band has not been

active for many years this recording will no doubt be highly

anticipated by the bands still large and devoted fan base.