Many many years ago, when salfordmusic was merely a young floppy-haired Perry boy, there was an electro-industrial noise outfit called As Able As Kane, or AAAK, or Triple A K, call 'em what you want. They were from the neighbouring kingdom of Prestwich (Boo!) and they started out as a four-piece but ended up as a two-piece, comprising Paul Rawlinson and Simon "Ding" Archer. They got rave reviews, they got a couple of small record deals, they released some stuff. And then.... Nothing.

So what happened? Ding explains:

"Our demise was brought about by the theft of my studio. As well as stealing all of the bands equipment, the thieves also took every single floppy disk, DAT tape and sample tape that we had." Bummer.

Fast forward twenty years and AAAK are back. So what happened? Ding has since relocated to Salford (Hurray!), opened his own recording studio in Bexley Square, and then...

"Out of the blue, I got an email from a German record label who specialise in industrial music, and consequently we're re-recording two records that we released in '89 and '90 and we'll be playing some gigs in Europe on the back of that."

Excellent. And here's a little taster of AAAK. A video for their song "Time".