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The band formed around 1994 with three members, but its lineup has changed many times over the intervening years. The group have had as many as fifteen members at one time, but have tended to settle down to a group of nine. The instruments played vary with the lineup, but typically include multiple electric guitars and electric basses, drums, one or two string instruments and occasionally a French horn.
The band have in the past been reluctant to go in for the traditional self-publicising interviews, and have openly expressed their distaste for the mainstream, corporation-owned music industry. This has left them as somewhat shadowy figures, and not a great deal is generally known about the individual members. They did, however, become considerably more widely known after appearing on the cover of the NME in 1999.
The member who liases with the press the most is Efrim Menuck, and for this reason he is sometimes presented as a front-man. However, he has strongly repudiated this characterisation.
Members of the group have formed a number of side projects, the best known of which are probably A Silver Mt. Zion[?], Fly Pan Am[?] and Set Fire to Flames[?]. The band recently provided the soundtrack to the UK film 28 Days Later.
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