John Morrison, hailing from Moseley

Moseley

Moseley is a suburb of Birmingham, England, two miles south of the city centre. The area is a popular cosmopolitan residential location and leisure destination, with a number of bars and restaurants...

, Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, played bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 in indie

Indie (music)

In music, independent music, often shortened to indie music or "indie" is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, and an autonomous, Do-It-Yourself approach to recording and publishing....

 band L Cage which also featured Dean O'Loughlin from Big Brother and Ernest Valentino Hendricks (owner of Birmingham record label Fortune and Glory

Fortune and Glory

Fortune and Glory is an Eisner Award-nominated 3-issue American comic book limited series by Brian Michael Bendis, telling the story of his attempts to break into Hollywood by writing screenplays for his noir comics. These comics include Jinx, A.K.A. Goldfish, and Torso...

). John went on to play bass in the bands Bromide, Rhatigan

Rhatigan

Rhatigan is the folk/punk/indie/rock/pop band led by former Stock Aitken and Waterman backing singer, turned Irish singer songwriter, Suzanne Rhatigan...

, Hefner

Hefner (band)

Hefner were a British indie rock and "urban folk" band formed in east London in 1995. They were active from about 1996 until 2002; since then they have played together only once, for a tribute to the DJ John Peel, who was a strong supporter of theirs....

 and The French.

John now works in a project called The Machines

The Machines

Machines of Loving Grace was an industrial rock band from Tucson, Arizona.Named for a Richard Brautigan poem, they formed in 1989. The original lineup consisted of Scott Benzel , Stuart Kupers , and Mike Fisher , with Brad Kemp added shortly thereafter...

 with fellow musician Rob Lord. They did a remix in 2004 for fellow Hefner bandmate Antony Harding

Antony Harding

Antony Harding is an English singer, songwriter and musician from the Isle of Wight. He is best known as the drummer in London band Hefner, and plays independently as ANT.- History :...

's solo project ANT.