By the beginning of 2008, Birmingham band Shocked Elevator Family had decided to take a break once they had completed work on their album ‘the Luge vol.1’. Bryn Bowen wanted to move back to Norway and bassist David Morris’s band Gentle Friendly was beginning to make waves in London. During the making of ‘the Luge...’, Bryn had started recording with his brother Lloyd Bowen under the name Hell Brown Kids and S.E.F guitarist Ralph Morton under various names including Auctioneers, Josh Logan and Bodies of Men.

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