Whatever became of...?

Don't you just love those "Whatever Became Of...?" columns in magazines? Well, I do, and I'm gonna start my own right now. I know in the magazines they usually end up doing some research and telling the reader indeed what happened to the person(s) in question. I may or may not do that, depending on how much time I have on my hands. Anyway, here we go.

The first in my ongoing series is Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine.

Carter USM, as they were informally known, and sometimes just Carter, was a pair of sixth-form-looking motherfuckers with floppy stupid hair bringing their own brand of music to the masses. The music was almost an electronic post-punk kind of thing, with humour and a guitar.

The boys wrote quite witty lyrics, and some of their songs had quite witty titles: "The Only Living Boy in New Cross", for example, and "24 Minutes from Tulse Hill", to name but two of their tracks. But for me the duo is best remembered for their take on The Jam's "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight". The original is a rightly acknowledged classic pop song, and it's almost impossible to get the tune out of your head when you are, indeed, down in a tube station at or around midnight. Carter brought something fresh to it. They changed the feel considerably, and yet the brilliance of the track still shines through.

Anyways, that's all by the by. So, what became of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine? How the fuck should I know?