Consequently, some Six By Seven releases have featured tracks sung entirely in German, most notably the B-Side "Helden", a cover of David Bowie's song "Heroes".
During this time Olley also edited and mastered Brain Donor as well as co-writing and recording and providing German translations for the album Vernichte Die Gotter by a fictional Dutch duo named Kabalist.
Olley appeared under the name Hugo De Klay and Julian Cope played synth and did vocals under his alias Ron Boots.
2009 saw the release of a debut solo album entitled A Streetcar Named Disaster and several other EPs including "East Of Edale", "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wade" and "The Grapes of Hyman Roth" through his website and Cargo Records.
In late 2007 Olley returned to his photography once more and undertook a project to photograph every football stadium in the first 4 leagues on a 250cc motorbike.