/// Simon Beckett (of Treebound Story and Lovebirds) went on to be a successful author writing crime novels featuring David Hunter; Whispers of the Dead, Written In Bone and The Chemistry of Death

/// Joe Dilworth was in Relaxed Muscle with Richard and Jarvis. He was the drummer dressed as a sailor (Jarvis was the skeleton and went under the name Darren Spooner, whilst Richard was Wayne Marsden). Joe is also also a very successful photographer now living in Berlin and shooting artists including Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Manics and Franz Ferdinand

/// Rob Gregory joined Babybird then moved to Italy and ran an olive grove for a while before ending up working for the Catholic church with his brother in Greece

/// John Stuart (of Vendino Pact, Chakk and Lovebirds) runs his own book publishing company with Dean Bargh (of The Mystery Machine) and Jake Harries (Chakk)

/// Treebound Story’s album was never released as their record label burnt down with no one knowing if a second master ever existed of their debut release ‘Butlers Cafe’ which originally was titled ‘All Our Dad’s Arses’, Butlers Cafe was a legendary cafe near the University in Sheffield. Once visited by Picasso it has now become Butlers Balti House

/// Steve Mackay is also now a producer and produced the Sheffield group Long Blondes

/// Nick Banks from Pulp used to carry an extra floor tom for his drums on tour so he could put his paper on it and do the crossword between songs

/// Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘Three Mantras’ EP (nearly twenty minutes per side) features a mantra which when spun backwards on a record deck recites ‘the human league, the human league’ over and over for ten minutes

/// Tim McCall (Jarvis/Various Vegetables) cycles 350miles a week when not on tour. He was a postman prior to joining Jarvis’ band

/// Colin Elliot and David Coulter worked together on Truelove’s Gutter but only discovered on that session that they had gone to school together and hadn’t seen each other in over twenty years

/// Parrot (All seeing I) was (along with Winston) the first house DJ in Sheffield of any note

/// Treebound Story recorded their first single at FON studios with the band completely naked throughout the session

/// Stephen Jones (Babybird) was once in a band called ‘Ice cream fun a do do do’ and a theatre company called Dogs In Honey

/// Steven Mallander (Cabs) left the UK to run a sheep farm in Australia

/// Pete McKee is now a famous artist and has painted guitars for Noel Gallagher

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