Between Broken Bells and Magic Dirt, which band had more members at the time they were formed?
Magic Dirt Magic Dirt are an Australian rock band, which formed in 1991 in Geelong, Victoria, with Daniel Herring on guitar, Adam Robertson on drums, Adalita Srsen on vocals and guitar, and Dean Turner on bass guitar. Initially forming an alternative underground band called Deer Bubbles which split and formed into the much heavier, rock based group called The Jim Jims, they were renamed as Magic Dirt in 1992. Their top 40 releases on the ARIA Albums Chart are "Friends in Danger" (1996), "What Are Rockstars Doing Today" (2000), "Tough Love" (2003) and "Snow White" (2005). They have received nine ARIA Music Award nominations including four at the ARIA Music Awards of 1995 for "Life Was Better" – their second extended play. Turner died in August 2009 of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (a soft tissue cancer). s of 2011 , the band is on hiatus with no immediate plans to tour or record.
Broken (Soulsavers album) Broken is the third full-length studio album from electronica production duo Soulsavers, released by V2 Records in the UK on 17 August 2009, and released by Columbia Records in the US in September as a digital download. As with their 2007 album "It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land", a collaboration with Mark Lanegan and a host of guest vocalists, "Broken" once again features Lanegan as the primary vocalist, as well as contributions from Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Will Oldham), Jason Pierce (of Spiritualized and Spacemen 3), Mike Patton (of Faith No More), Richard Hawley, and Gibby Haynes (of Butthole Surfers). The non-album single "Sunrise", a song written by Lanegan and sung by Will Oldham, preceded the album release on 3 August 2009. The AA-side is a cover of Palace Brothers' "You Will Miss Me When I Burn", written by Oldham and sung by Lanegan, that also features on the album.