This was picked up by BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Mark Radcliffe who played Red Thong (the track) on his national daytime show for a week in the November of that year.
[1] Mute Records signed the band and they released another eponymous 6-track EP (known as the Self Catering EP;[2] again after the title of the opening track) in 2003, followed by the album Messy Century in the September.
[3] After having been released by Mute due to the label's restructuring in the wake of their takeover by EMI, Kelar left the band.
They recruited a new drummer, Ezra Bang,[4] and released a 10" limited-edition EP on the Manchester-based label Northern Ambition in February 2004.
Entitled Motions of Interplanetary Dust, it was said by the band to be named after Brian May of Queen's PhD astronomy thesis, and was again well received, with several good reviews but received little radio airplay.