The all-male membership brings together multi-instrumentalist musicians active across many other leading bands in the UK folk scene: Benji Kirkpatrick (Seth Lakeman Band, Bellowhead, Steeleye Span), Saul Rose (Waterson–Carthy, Whapweasel) and formerly Paul Sartin (Bellowhead, Belshazzar's Feast).
Sartin met van Eyken and Harbron while performing the Mick Ryan opera A Day's Work at Salisbury Playhouse.
[7] The album was toured, but afterwards rather than continue together the group disbanded to focus on other musical projects, including Bellowhead (of which Sartin and Kirkpatrick were founder members), Waterson–Carthy, van Eyken's solo work,[8] and Harbron's duo with Emma Reid.
[11] The band released the eponymous Faustus album in 2008 on Navigator Records,[12] and were nominated for Best Group at the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
[14] An official hiatus took place while Rose performed in the Royal National Theatre’s production of War Horse (play),[15] a role previously undertaken by Tim van Eyken.
During 2011 Kirkpatrick stood back from his commitments to the Seth Lakeman Band, and the National Theatre replaced the War Horse cast, enabling Faustus to come together again.