Formed in Salisbury in the late Eighties, by school-friends Andrew Vaughan and Rob Allum, Spill Kit were, for a short time, the South-West’s premier Industrial Noise band. Heavily influenced by the German group Die Nassen Hosen (The Wet Trousers) and the legendary Substrate from Welwyn Garden City.

Signed to independent label PlantHire, they released their first album ‘Kroniktektonik’ in 1989 and subsequently made four more albums, each one less musical than the last, culminating in 1993’s ‘Peace Abatement Society’. It was during the making of this album that bassist Glynn Prosser was sacked for playing notes.

By this time the relationship between Vaughan and Allum had become as abrasive as the industrial power tools they were now using in place of conventional instruments. Allum, keen to take the band in a more song-based direction, accused Vaughan of devoting too much time to his side project, Vaughan Fabrications Ltd., a small scale metalworking business dealing mainly in contracts for local authorities.

In ’94 Allum quit the band and Vaughan, having recruited his replacement, Polish-born roofer Tomek Sasinski, from outside a branch of Wickes, embarked on what was to be their final tour.

The shows were mired in controversy as, during the London gig, several eagle-eyed fans noticed that Vaughan, instead of playing the album classics that they had paid to hear, was working on a pair of ornamental steel gates for a public park as part of a commission for Basingstoke council.

Spill Kit broke up shortly after the tour and Vaughan was able to devote himself full time to his business. He remarked at the time, “To be honest, it’s probably what I should’ve been doing all along.”

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