[1] Army child Darren Lee Ford, born in Tidworth, Hampshire, spent much of his childhood travelling around Northern Ireland, Germany and England, where his father was stationed before attending boarding school near Dover[2] and spent the previous 10 years before forming Lowgold on the dole and drumming in numerous bands such as The Knievels with his older brother Gary and Shinecello[3] with Miles Willey on guitar as well as touring the stand-up comedy circuit for eight months.

They enlisted Miles Willey, from Bromley, Kent, who in addition to being a former bandmate and current housemate of Ford was an old university friend of Symons' on bass, and drafted in Paul Mayes on drums.

During the initial sessions at Chipping Norton Recording Studios it was agreed that Paul's heavier drumming style didn’t fit Lowgold so he left the band.

[9] The band were then left in a state of limbo and barely able to support themselves as any releases were temporarily shelved due to Nude being in financial difficulties.

[15] In December 2001, Nude and its publishing arm Bare Tunes went into voluntary liquidation due to financial debt, and failed to inform their acts of their intention to do so.

The band later revealed that Lowgold was set up as a partnership on the recommendation of Nude owner Saul Galpern, as opposed to a limited company and therefore all the partners were personally liable for any debts.

[21] Ford continued to write, but had no intention of letting anyone else hear anything until the death of manager Martin Gilks in April 2006 which saw the band reunite to play at his funeral.

Addressing questions regarding the tour cancellation and prolonged radio silence, in August 2009 the band stated in a social media post that they were busy raising children, and also claimed that they intended to continue.

[27] Willey played with Brighton-based Good Morning, Captain and instrumental band -a+M[28] who morphed into Lamp and are signed to independent label Lancashire and Somerset.

[31] Symons went on to forge a career in music marketing, working at Sanctuary, Rough Trade Records[32] as well as setting up his own company Band2Market.

[33] Ford was the author of a number of now defunct satirical blogs, including Misanthrobs, I am Bono (you're not), World Of Worksports and Dick Cheney - The Retirement Years.