Matthew Bannister (musician)

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Matthew Bannister is a New Zealand musician. His early career was spent in Dunedin, where he was lead singer and songwriter for Sneaky Feelings. After moving to Auckland in 1989 he formed Dribbling Darts. Both bands had music released on the Flying Nun record label. He has also worked briefly with The Mutton Birds. He released a solo album Moth in 2007 as One Man Bannister.

Bannister's book - Positively George Street - about his time in a band during the height of the "Dunedin Sound" movement was published in 1999.

He has a PhD in Film, TV and Media Studies from the University of Auckland, having been a student there 1998-2003. His thesis was titled White Man's Soul: pakeha masculinities in popular music of New Zealand / Aotearoa.

He is now working at the Waikato Institute of Technology (WINTEC) in the School of Media Arts.

Contents

[edit] Bands

[edit] Solo Album

  • Moth (as One Man Bannister) (2007)

[edit] Publications

  • Bannister, Matthew (1999). Positively George Street. Auckland: Reed Books. ISBN 0-7900-0704-5
  • Bannister, Matthew (2002) White Man's Soul: pakeha masculinities in popular music of New Zealand / Aotearoa, PhD thesis, University of Auckland.
  • Bannister, Matthew (2005) Kiwi Blokes Recontextualising White New Zealand Masculinities in a Global Setting, Genders Journal, Issue 42, 2005.

[edit] External links

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