[7] In 1995, Handley and Turner left to focus on Plaid[8] but Downie continued working as The Black Dog on his own for a while, releasing the solo album Music for Adverts (and Short Films).
Though they completed over a dozen critically acclaimed remixes during this period, only one album was ever released: Unsavoury Products featured the talents of Parisian beat poet Black Sifichi on vocals.
[13] "We’ve helplessly watched with mounting horror, while the government trashed the country, signed away its sovereignty to Brussels (with a flourish of a specially minted silver pen), sold off precious national industries and assets at next to bargain basement prices, and indulged itself with two utterly pointless wars which it couldn’t afford," the group stated on their home page.
[14] In May 2010, the Black Dog teamed with creative agency "Human"[15] to create Music for Real Airports,[16] described by them as "a contemporary reply to Brian Eno's work from the 70s".
"[17] The initial lineup kept themselves busy with numerous alter-egos and side-projects, including Echo Mike, Close Up Over, Xeper, Atypic, I.A.O., Plaid, Balil and the Discordian Popes.
More recently, the current lineup of The Black Dog (Ken Downie with Martin and Richard Dust) have collaborated with Psychick Warriors ov Gaia on a new ambient project called Dadavistic Orchestra.