Saloon (band)

The band included Adam Cresswell (bass/synthesisers), Michael Smoughton (drums), added Alison Cotton (viola), Amanda Gomez (lead vocal) and Matt Ashton (guitars).

[12] At the same time as gigging and releasing numerous 7-inch singles, the band wrote and recorded their debut album, a process which took them a year and half.

Between the release of the albums the band were hit with unexpected success when Girls Are The New Boys reached number one in Peel's annual Festive 50.

Gomez and Cresswell also provided production duties on the 2004 album Let's Get Static by another Track and Field band, The Projects.

At the turn of the decade, Ashton, Cotton and Cresswell were still writing and recording respectively in bands called The Leaf Library, The Left Outsides and Arthur and Martha.