The group was formed in 1994 by Greg Kurcewicz (vocals/Guitar), Ben Rodgers (keyboards), Scott Nicholas (guitar), Dan Hayhurst (bass guitar), and John Revill (drums). After two limited-edition singles on the
Earworm label and a November 1997 session for
John Peel's
BBC Radio 1 show, Kurcewicz left the band in 1998, and they shifted to a more electronic instrumental sound that has been compared to
Cluster and
Stereolab. and by
The Independent as "dark, broody instrumentals with a distinctive hook; spiritually morose, yet full of zeal and strangely uplifting". They performed at the
Reading Festival in 1998 and signed to Foundry Records the same year. After an
EP in late 1998, the band's eponymous debut album was issued in September 1999. The band also remixed
Hefner's "The Greedy Ugly People", which was released on a 7-inch single and on the expanded edition of
We Love the City. Kurcewicz and Hayhurst later collaborated with
The Sonic Catering Band, and Hayhurst played on the latter's live album
Live in Linz – Popkorn (2008). he also played in
Echoboy, They Came from the Stars, and Sculpture. Greg Kurcewicz still works as a musician on various projects, a fine artist and curator of artists' film. Scott Nicholas produces moody lo-fi psychedelic folk-rock under the Venus Willendorf moniker. ==Discography==