Version 1 - Out of the crashed remnants of an Edwardian time machine crawled the moustachioed inventors. Surveying a desolate mid 90s landscape of post-grunge and previous Britpop, our dapper heroes set about constructing a sound from a succession of different eras, using music hall calliopes, glowing valves, Bakelite speakers, and various silver things from the future (as yet unnamed). Identities were adopted and discarded... as were versions of their history...

Version 2 - The Relationships were conceived in late 1994 when Richard and Pete from Oxford pop sensation The Anyways teamed up with ex-Razorcut Angus, reviving a partnership that had commenced in the legendary mid 80s combo Here Comes Everybody (home also to future Talulah Gosh/Heavenly guitar man Pete Momtchiloff). Strumming guitars and doing crosswords in a damp East Oxford basement, the original trio - Ramage/Stevenson/Lock - wrote a few songs and came up with their semi-anagrammatic new name. The Relationships. (It was either that or Slack Games No Never). Going live and electric with a succession of rhythm sections and a variety of tweed jackets, they came to the attention of the California-based Anglophiles at Twee Kitten, who put out the 1998 EP ‘Country Catalogue’ and the 2000 album ‘Trend’, which featured guest appearances from Amelia Fletcher of Heavenly and Andy Bell of Ride/Oasis. Pete Lock then departed and a new stabilized line-up of Richard Ramage (vocal, guitar), Andy Smith (bass), Angus Stevenson (lead guitar), and Tim Turan (drums) released the album ‘Scene’ in 2005 on the new Trailer Star Records label of Nottingham, England.