[2] Mark Edwards first played drums during the very early portion of the 1980s, performing in the bands Thermos of Happiness and Riot Architecture before they both dissolved by 1984.
[3] In August that same year, Edwards began to learn guitar and started to write music under the name of My Dad Is Dead.
[5] Let's Skip The Details was the first release by the project to feature musicians other than Edwards, the addition of whom enabled My Dad Is Dead to tour as a full band.
1995 saw the split Emperor Jones/Trance Syndicate release For Richer, for Poorer, and also the My Dad Is Dead entry in the Hello Recording Club subscription EP series.
A Divided House and A New Clear Route were issued independently on Edwards' self-run Unhinged imprint in 2005 and 2009, and, in 2011, the project officially came to an end.