[2] Frigid Vinegar performed the track "Jack Biscuit" live on Lamacq's show from Maida Vale studios.
"Dogmonaut 2000" was also played on BBC daytime shows by DJs Mark and Lard, Chris Moyles, Jo Whiley and Dave Pearce, and appeared on the UK singles chart.
The year was ended with four university gigs supporting the Shirehorses the comedy band of DJs Mark and Lard The next single "How Cheap Is Your Love?"
"Diddleysquat" featured Family Fortunes game show host Les Dennis singing the chorus and appearing in the video.
The first single "Blinder" sampled the theme from the 1970s television show Minder and was played by Zane Lowe and Chris Moyles.
The next single "God Shoots Jesus Saves" sampled the 1980 movie The Long Good Friday and was released on limited edition numbered 7-inch vinyl only.
[9][10] Acarine were then signed to CNR, a subsidiary of RoadRunner records, where they released the singles "Screw Your Head On" and "Organ Donor", as well as the 14 track album Call It On.
[11] The duo, along with live drummer Paul Kodish and Scratch DJ Matt Lewis, played the Glastonbury and Glade festival.
[12] They also toured with Chumbawamba and headlined shows in London at Koko, Dublin Castle, 93 Feet East, Bar Fly and Liberty.
[13] Ex-Stoke City hooligan Mark Chester followed suit and had Acarine perform at the launch for his book Naughty Forty.
Director Lexi Alexander then asked Acarine to provide a song for his film Green Street starring Elijah Wood which was about West Ham United hooligans.
Subsequently, a proposed gig in Southend was cancelled by the police and the local Council following concerns about violence from rival hooligans.
[15] Brett Gordon was again involved, this time playing bass, songwriting and handling the production as well as all chorus and backing vocals and contributing to arrangement.
Lusty and Gordon decided to put the lyrics to an alt, lo fi project called Loner Party.
The video was even given credence by appearances from well-known established porn stars Lolly Badcock, Amber Leigh, Rio Mariah and Sensi.
[20] Gigs throughout the UK followed with bands 999, Anti Nowhere League, Sham 69, The Lurkers, Total Chaos and at the Nice and Sleazy Festival.
The plan was to record some acoustic folk rap, a very stripped down affair inspired by a shared love of Johnny Cash, and which Boorer describes as "a MC fronting early Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Painkillers got its first airplay via Janice Long on her Radio 2 show, and was released on Lusty's Drive By Shouting Records label via download.
Directed and filmed by David J. Harris, the video is shot in black and white and features scenes from Brighton Rock in the background.
[30] A 6-city tour was undertaken 20–28 January in support of the album, visiting Southend, Swindon, Winchester, London, Manchester and Birmingham.
A third video was taken from the album Bad Places again filmed by Terry Stephens and starred Lusty and Sensi as TV detectives in a spoof of 1970s cop shows.
In June 2014, Lusty teamed up with Austrian producer and member of seminal electronica act Sofa Surfers to release the 4 track EP 'For Gods Sake' on Fabrique records,http://www.fabrique.at/store/all-releases/markus-kienzl A video for the track 'Terror' was released as an early taster as well as a video for 'Well' which was shot and recorded in Vienna and used to launch the EP.
Gigs followed from Glasgow to Nottingham to Brighton, Sheffield, Gateshead, Canterbury, Manchester, Derby, Coventry, Swindon, Birmingham and the Great British Alternative Festival in Skegness.
Two videos were released from it, 'Cursory Rhymes' and the anti-Sun newspaper 'A Disgusting Filthy Rag' which drew the backing of the 'Total Eclipse of the Sun' organisation in Liverpool.
2019 began with the release of a limited edition 7 inch vinyl E.P 'With Love and Violence featuring the lead track 'Love Is The Answer'.
The first track and video released from the album was 'Looney Left' featuring the poet, singer, author and actor Benjamin Zephaniah in September.
The E.P was released in March 2020 with an accompanying video where Lusty played a washed up comedian in gold lame called Jimmy Giggle.
A 12 track LP called 'The Transatlantic Express' came out that summer and received a glowing review on the Louder than War website https://louderthanwar.com/halfway-people-the-transatlantic-express-album-review/ In 2023 Lusty wrote, recorded and produced his first solo album in ten years.
https://thegingerquiff.com/lusty-im-going-to-make-your-death-all-about-me-album-review/ Lusty was a far departure from his previous 'boom bap' hip hop solo material and instead channeled an alternative lo-fi sound.
The rawness of the songs and the vivid imagery in the lyrics suggest that many of the themes explored and the stories told come directly from personal experience'.