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Mike and Eva meet in rehab in April 1977
July 77 form post punk band, The Osterleys, play pubs and toilets all over west London
After only 3 months and a fist fight with bass player, Thom Flange, Eva is sacked
Mike takes over lead vocals to honour existing bookings but after 3 weeks leaves to concentrate on his other band, The Milk
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Eva starts all girl band, The Ladytubes, with Emmy A Ward on drums and Lisette Montagne on bass
The Milk support The Ruts then split up
Ladytubes narrowly beaten by Baccara in Song for Europe and fail to represent Luxembourg in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest
1980 The Ladytubes break up citing clinical PMS as the cause
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1980-1987
[details removed following threatened litigation by Pepsi and Shirlie]
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1989 Mike and Eva hook up again at Brighton Rock, a musical jamboree in Falmer, East Sussex
1990 both admitted to the Priory, Eva in April, Mike in June
Mike's band, Feel, releases 12" singles throughout 1991 and 1992
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1993 Eva and Mike begin production project, releasing collaborative tracks on a number of indie labels including DJ Vadim's Jazz Fudge
Awarded the Pan Americas Silver Globe for services to songwriting
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Desperate to throw herself on the Britpop bandwagon before it left town, Eva joins the Camden-based four piece, Trash, in the autumn of 1994
Trash support Elastica sound-alikes Gravity on the European leg of the Modern Life's Not All Bad tour in 1995
Lead guitarist, bass player and drummer of Trash leave to form hair metal band in Munich
Eva and keyboard player, Matt begin residency in Soho Pizza Express as The Trash Cabaret Experience
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1996 experimental work begins with synth-meisters Salt Tank
Eva records and tours extensively with Salt Tank
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Mike and Eva resume production project performing at Bang Out of Order drum 'n' bass events on the south coast in spring of 1998
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May 1998 fateful tour of the Americas begins in New Orleans
August 1998 - the unfortunate Central American extended debacle - Mike and Eva dragged from their beds in the middle of the night
December 1998 show trial televised
January 1999 incarcerated in prisons 150 miles from the nearest British Consulate
Eventual release for Mike in November 2004
Due to a series of minor disciplinary offences, Eva's release is delayed despite strenuous efforts by the Foreign Office
February 2005 Eva put on RAF flight back to UK
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Mike and Eva's emotional reunion on the south coast culminates in the conception of Portslade
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