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About Me

Formed in Liverpool in 1999, Three Minute Margin started out playing heavy improvised Post-Hardcore semi-instrumentals such as "Call Me Bluto For I am He" and "Civilisation Spurns the Leopard". They later suffered from a fit of songwriting and are one of the area's most Angular, Direct and Forceful bands. A self recorded compilation "20 Tonnes of Trouble" was released by the band and later a split CD with Tokyo Adventures ("The Three Minute Margin just had a fight with Tokyo Adventures - I'm not sure who won, but there's blood everywhere"). A selection of songs from these sessions currently remain unreleased.Other contributions can be found on the Keith Kompilations 1 and 2 and scattered liberally around in other places like so much tasty rock salt.Our most recent release was the "Helsby E.P." produced in a limited edition numbered run for the last ever Munkyfest. This featured the studio version of the Rock Anthem we wrote for our 2004 Munkyfest appearance "Highway to Helsby". These are sold out now, but will be back in a new edition soon.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/05/2005
Band Members: Morgan Brown - Guitar & Vocals : Paul Abbott - Bass & Vocals : Louise Hanman - Drums
Influences: Husker Du, Fugazi, Shellac, Van Halen, The Blue Oyster Cult, J Church, Weezer, The Ramones, Transformers: The Movie Soundtrack, Slint, Naked Raygun, Black Flag, Nomeansno, Black Cougar Shock Unit, Avail, Killdozer, All, Minutemen, Bluetip, Snuff, Subhumans, Jawbreaker, Pegboy, Rites Of Spring, Leatherface...
Sounds Like: Get Up

Record Label: Keith Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

RECORDING BASS THINGS

Recording The Sound Of A Bass Guitar... ...has, for some reason, taken longer than it should have. Every attempt made has stumbled and fallen at the first hurdle... something was always 'not quite r...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:17:00 GMT

Recording Sounds Using Things

Sometimes you just have one of those days, don't you? In this instance, I mean a good day. Yesterday m'self and Morgan squirreled ourselves away in the Cloister Room Recording Studios (which is curren...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:49:00 GMT

Miss Anne Update

Just a Margin update to say that work is continuing (slowly - my fault, admits Paul) on the newest batch of Three Minute Margin recordings. We're concerned with doing a good job of it so we're not rus...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:48:00 GMT

We Made Noises!

Ah! A Three Minute Margin has taken place, which I feel compelled to tell everyone about as it was such good fun and saw the "Up Dead Loud" premiere of Morgan's VOX Valvetronix amplifier and Paul's As...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:50:00 GMT

Ancient History...

Ha ha! Check out "Lunch", a relic from six flamin' years ago. Unbelievable. I'm quite amused that Paul has dug this up for the listening pleasure of everyone on myspace. ...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:59:00 GMT

More Ridiculous In-Depth Recording Details.

Having successfully recorded the drums earlier in the week, we moved onto guitars and vocals. These were done in our flats - Guitars (Morgan's, sorry new downstairs neighbours!) and Paul's (Vocals, fo...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:26:00 GMT

Recording

Well, today we recorded our drum parts for forthcoming releases. It was a self-recording, using a Korg D1600 with 2 overheads, Shure SM57 on the Snare and AKG D112 for the Bass Drum. The results are r...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:50:00 GMT

I am gonna go to Hollywood...

...or at least to iMovie on the Macintosh...Well, yesterday the video of our gig in Korova in January was edited together, magically tweaked and turned into a DVD for us to bore our friends and family...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 05:03:00 GMT

How to Practice Properly

So, the Margin had a practice today. Not, as many might suspect, in a practice room or studio but in the front room of one of our flats. Let me tell you this: You ain't heard nuthin' until ...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:12:00 GMT