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Mick Sinclair
Prior to the Funboy Five,
Mick played guitar and occasional vocal in the Anal Surgeons also briefly, and less memorably,
known as The Untouchables. Later, he was behind Milkshake Melon and half of the duo that created 'Great Disasters That Shook the World & Marion', a 1980 cassette release that may yet emerge, with bonus tracks, as a CD. He also created Das Boomerang, whose rendition of the Leonard Cohen song 'Suzanne' appeared on the Glass Records vinyl compilation, Shadows and Substance: The Wonderful World of Glass Vol.2, in 1984.
From mid-1981 however writing about music, rather than playing or recording it, steadily became a full-time occupation.
John
McRae
After the Funboy Five,
John joined the Sheep, a group that took the
world less by storm than by a dark cloud lurking
in a clear blue sky, and later Red Hedgehog.
Bob
Brimson
Took his bass to The
Bears expecting greater things but later found
more fame as a actor with a decently-sized role
in the film, The Krays, among other screen
appearances. He found more lasting employment in the music business working with, among others, Terence Trent D'Arby, and co-managing Echobelly and XTC, before finding a self-styled niche as a dispute arbitrator between artists and record labels.
Robert
As enigmatic a drummer as
anyone could wish for, Robert was rumoured to
have left the Funboy Five to return to the
regular money of the cabaret circuit. About this
not much is known, but not much was ever known
about Robert save for the fact that he was
partial to the writings of George Orwell, which
is why he was credited as "Robert
Blair" on the 'Life After Death' sleeve. Dave Tyler
Played in The Sheep with John McCrae after the demise of the Funboy Five, and subsequently Painted Childen among other local non-legends of the Rickmansworth, Hemel Hempstead, Watford area before moving to Birmingham and (at different times) joining "two underated guitar bands", The Haywires and Bikini Red, who were nearly part of the Moseley scene from whence came Fuzzbox, Birdland and Ocean Colour Scene. He also left school.
And
strangely enough:
About a year after the
Funboy Five left the world, the Fun Boy Three
emerged, composed of ex-members of The Specials.
The similarity in name was, as far as we know,
coincidence although when the FB3 began using
some of the same song titles (for quite different
songs) as the Funboy Five, the coincidence became
even greater.
No less a coincidence was
the fact that Mick Sinclair reviewed the Fun Boy Three's first gig.
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