Magic

 Whilst the Magic Mushroom Band shares members with

Astralasia, the Magic Mushroom Band has been a working band

for far longer. The band first came together in 1982 when they

first began playing their brand of "Psychedelic Space Pop".

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 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.

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