Several months after the band split I happened to be at a wedding reception where I met a guy called Steve who worked at Ghetto Records - a new company that had started out with money from Morrison & Leahey ( George Michael’s publishers). They had two bands from Liverpool on their rosta; Shack and The Lightning Seeds. When I described what I was doing in a drunken stupour he asked "Is it like the Pet Shop Boys?". I thought I'd better say “yes" and the next week I went round to play them my demo. They seemed a bit bemused and didn’t really comment at all. But the next week I got a call from Stuart Lawn saying they’d been listening to the demo over and over again and they’d like me to come in again and have a chat. They offered me a deal and I started work on the album almost immediatley at the in-house studio that Stuart ran at Star street .

Stolen Jewels was my sampling album. I hardly played any bass on it at all. It’s a hit’n’miss mixture of arty-farty stuff and pop. To my embarrassment, Ghetto even chose a single of the CD, ‘The Sound of Gyroscopes’ and a video was made featuring me walking on the ceiling. It was even played on ‘The Chart Show’. However the album did not sell well. It also came out at the time of one of the worst recessions in British history. As I was beginning work on a second album, a fire broke out in the studio basement overnight and the place was reduced to ashes. Morrison and Leahey weren’t getting on well at this time so they saw it as an opportunity to conclude their dealings together. The Ghetto artists that had commercial potential were sold off to the highest bidder while the company closed down. You’ll be lucky to pick up Stolen Jewels as most of the copies were actually destroyed in the fire.