Their story begins in Auckland in 1983, when Johnny Pierce (bass), Grant Fell (guitar) and Bevan Sweeney (drums) hooked up with a Westie kid called Chris Matthews (vocals, guitar) to form the dark, roaring Children's Hour.
Chris Matthews - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Michael Lawry - keyboards, effects
Bevan Sweeney - drums
Fiona McDonald - vocals
Rupert E. Taylor - vocals
Rex Visable - effects
Johnny Pierce - bass
Anthony Nevison - guitar
Angus McNaughton - programming
Cruise Control includes vocal samples from The Crocodiles' Tears and Shona Laing's 1905.
The stilt walkers who loom in the video for Gaskrankinstation are Bevan Sweeney and his colleagues from a stilt ensemble formed as part of a summer arts work scheme.
The sounds sampled at the beginning of Expecting to Fly are the cry of a psychiatric patient called Willie the Whoop and the squeak of an old playground swing.