In 1995, after two years of performing with the group, Marty Jones decided to leave the band to concentrate on being a producer and co-running Sound of One Hand Studios.
After Cargo Canada folded, Furnaceface would release a fifth and final album in 1999 titled And the Days are Short Again… on their own label Upright Records, which had the single "Heartless" on it.
In Banister's absence, Dave Dudley and Tom Stewart have joined with Blake Jacobs of Hot Piss to create Manpower, who perform occasionally around Ottawa.
During a live performance in 1997, Stewart received burns due to an onstage pyrotechnic effect; the show was halted but the musician made a full recovery with no scarring.
His band, called Slo' Tom & The Horseshit Heroes (Jim Bryson, Dave Dudley, Geoff Taylor and Graham Collins) released an album, Liquor’s My Lover.
He has since released four more albums, backed by a different band, called the Handsome Devils: Musta Been a Pretty Good Night (2013), I'm Sick (2014), Down in a Government Town (2017) and Doing Hard Time (2024).
They also have lyrics that comment on local and global issues such as "Nobody to Vote For," a commentary on the 1993 Canadian federal election, and "We Love You, Tipper Gore" about the Parents Music Resource Center and the censorship debate in the 1980s.