But shortly after the album was released the band broke up. Martin and a couple of the remaining ‘Julia’ members started the band: ‘Cornfish’, a jazz, blues and vaudeville song writing quartet. Ed went his own way and started the band `NME´ together with two former members of ‘Shotgun Messiah. ’Cornfish’ was active between 1997-1999 and did well on the local scenes. During 1997, NME worked on an album in New York but it was never released. NME split up in 1998 and Ed returned to Sweden. At the same time, Martin left Cornfish and moved to Stockholm. Unaware of each other’s decisions, they both stepped away from their song writing.
In the autumn of 2008, Martin required Ed’s consent to do an English version of the Julia song ‘Stilla’ (‘Holding Me High’). That simple phone call led to the beginning of a new story. Two musicians, bound together by fate and separated by life’s circumstances, found each other again. MACHINE was born. MACHINE is the fusion between Martin and Ed…
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