The Sultans of Ping

[2] Following a number of line up changes including the loss of lead guitarist Ger Lyons, the band came to the attention of the Irish and UK music press, when "Where's Me Jumper" was released in January 1992.

[3] However, the album cover's artwork caused problems, as major record chains like HMV and Virgin decided that the display of bondage and S&M was too explicit.

Their decision to reform was officially confirmed by drummer Morty McCarthy in an interview with the Cork Evening Echo’s Mark McAvoy published in April 2005.

In 2006, the group played a show with Radio 2's Mark Radcliffe, and his band The Family Mahone, as part of Manchester's yearly Irish Festival.

[citation needed] The band were announced as the support act for Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine's 'Norf and Sarf' show at London's Brixton Academy in November 2011.

Today, Niall O’Flaherty is a lecturer in the History of European Political Thought at King's College London,[9] specialising in 18th and 19th century thinkers such as Thomas Robert Malthus and Charles Darwin.

The band later explained that the song was based on a real incident in Nottingham hotspot The Black Orchid, though the item lost was in fact a cardigan.