[3] Suzie later recalled "down at Commonwealth Park there used to be a tunnel with a power point ... My first band with Nic Dalton and Stevie Plunder...we wrote most of our songs down there".
In late 1989 Dalton and his friend, Miles Ferguson, took over the store, renamed it as Half a Cow and expanded its stock list to include comics, records and T-shirts.
It's a Shame About Ray featured Juliana Hatfield on bass and backing vocals, as Dalton was unable to get to the US in time for the album's recording schedule.
In January 2000, Dalton left Sydney and moved to a farm on the outskirts of the village of Morongla (near Cowra in central west New South Wales) with his girlfriend, writer Lucy Lehmann.
[7] He closed the Half A Cow bookshop (in January 1998), but continued to run the record label from the farm, while working on a new album.
The album, titled Home of the Big Regret, was recorded between July and November 2004 with a folk-rock and bluegrass band Dalton called the Gloomchasers.
[citation needed] After a year in Melbourne, Dalton moved back to Sydney in 2006 and formed a new line-up of the Gloomchasers, as well as joining lounge act the Handlebars.
In 2011 he formed a "bubblegum band for kids" called The Sticker Club with Alison Galloway, Ben Whitten, Nellie Afford, Damien 'Dizzi' Cassidy and Ruby Firmstone.
[citation needed] Melbourne film maker Jarrad Kennedy is completing a documentary about Dalton, covering his work as a musician and label boss for Half A Cow.