Red and Yellow Moth. Rehearsals and recordings at 140 Chesterton Road were disrupted in the year 2000 by the landlord's decision to sell up. Plans for a third album called 'The Talking Cure', which would 'Hands and Feet', 'Roundabout Ways' and 'The Trouble Song' out by September suffered a setback.

Patrick in red with red guitar at 140 Chesterton Road (March 2000). Following a performance of 'Three Cheers For Batgirl' on Carlton TV's 'The Max' in June 1999, the group started to record numbers like 'That Girl Could Be You' (written in February 1998 and tabled for the television appearance), 'So Easy Now' (also written in February 1998) and 'The Trouble Song' (February 1999).

Sitting on the sofa at Anna Wexler's house in Norwich (Spring 2000), Patrick with Ben and Malcolm who joined Moth Conspiracy to work on such tunes as 'The Inseparables', 'Somebody You Know' 'James Macleane' and 'CERN'. Malcolm had stepped into John Moreira's shoes the previous year.

Practising 'James Macleane' at 164 Chesterton Road (September 2000).
Recordings from this time also included a re-make of 'Number Five', one of the earliest Moth Conspiracy songs, and also 'Glen of The Downs County Wicklow', from April 1997. Photograph by Neil Atkinson.