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Machineri was formed in 2008 by Sannie Fox and Andre Geldenhuys. Though Sannie was writing for and performing in two other bands at the time (Black Betty and Mama Know Nothing) a budding desire to form a new project was appearing as she found herself sitting with a list of new songs and the need for a guitarist to play on them. Meanwhile Andre who had returned from working in Paris had left both of his two bands he was performing in (The Bastille and Riviera) and was practising his instrument all day in a dark room. It so happened that fate (as it often does when it comes to band formations) played its musical hand in the creation of Machineri and the coincidence that Sannie was living three houses down the street sitting in a dark room all day writing new songs and waiting for a guitarist to pop up came to play a synchronous part in the union of the curious celtic blues operators Sannie and Andre! Andre didn’t exactly pop up but he did appear one day sitting outside her house. The two musicians were some what aware of each other’s existence on the same street for having quietly watched from a distance the carrying of instruments into cars and the comings and goings of musical people in and out of both their living establishments. Apparently Andre had just bought a new strat and was wondering if this Sannie person wanted to come over and look at it. Since he knew she liked guitars, and since she knew she liked guitars she went on over. They had an instant and bountifu