Bassist and founder member Kevin Hendrick left the group to join Pre/Male Bonding following the recording of their fourth album Paper Crown King in 2006, and was not permanently replaced.
Seafood were formed on 31 August 1996 by David and Charles, who advertised for a female bassist and male drummer in classified magazine Loot.
The line-up turned out differently – a female drummer and male bassist – but, happily, this worked out and Seafood played their first gig at Camden's Dublin Castle in March 1997.
[1] Seafood came to the attention of the music press with the release of "Scorch Comfort" on Fierce Panda, a noisy but melodic track that was oddly compared to both Sonic Youth and Bis.
Seafood played as a three-piece at the Reading Festival after Charles lacerated his hands in an accident, ending with a 10-minute noise version of Walking in the Air as made popular by choir-boy Aled Jones.
In 1999, Seafood headed off on tour again, this time with Idlewild and Llama Farmers, and returned to play a full set at the Reading Festival.
After this tour, Seafood spent time working on building a studio, Neat Science Laboratories, in preparation for recording their next album, eventually released in the summer of 2004.
[5] In early May 2007 Seafood announced, via their website, that they would be releasing covers of The Cure's "Lovesong" and Townes Van Zandt's "I'll be Here in the Morning" as a double A-side download-only single on 11 June to accompany their May/June UK tour.