Turner produced Dollimore's debut Sun Pier release (02/01/1978) in 2006, writing a song on it ("The North Kent Post Industrial Hillstomp Blues") which received national airplay on BBC Radio 2.
Turner's own solo appeared a few months later with his debut album, A Gallon of Water Makes a Mile of Fog, which one critic described as "packed full of ideas".
[2] Turner supported Dollimore in gigs around England and spent 2006 and 2007 playing shows in a diverse selection of venues, including bowling alleys, cabaret clubs and Swedish festivals, which one reviewer described as "scaring the living daylights out of the assembled crowd with his spooky folk blues".
[3] Turner's second album, File Under Carnal Knowledge, was described a freight train riding back bar room down at heel blues",[4] and released on Sun Pier in February 2009.
Alongside Turner and Wilkinson in the original line-up were Ray Hunt on drums and Dave Sawicki on bass (with occasional trumpet from John Whitaker).
The band added "steam driven power" to his "anguished urban blues",[5] and provided the opportunity for live performances around the South East of England, including the Lounge On The Farm festival.
A live version of "Murder On Gaslight Street" was made available for free download via Medway Eyes in October 2010, whilst Brigadier Records released the Gin & Bitters album tracks, "Shimmy" and "South Sea Blues" as radio promos in December that year.
Following the launch of the Scowl album in late 2017, STFES continued to play live as much as possible, making further inroads into the grass roots festival scene, and with Lowrie regularly appearing on vocals.
[6] However, the launch event occurred just two days before the nationwide lockdown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rice was in quarantine and the band's planned mixed media performance was limited to four acoustic songs.
Turner is currently collaborating with Chris Broderick, formerly of Medway folk band The Singing Loins, writing a musical about Catherine Eddowes, as well as songs for a prospective album project with the working title Pod.