Tilt (The Lightning Seeds album) focusing on subjects such as the Liverpool dockers' strike, self-loathing pop stars and general disillusionment. Preceded in release a week by the single "Life's Too Short", "Tilt" was released by Epic Records in November 1999. A unique billboard campaign was developed to promote the album. The album was a commercial failure, only reaching number 46 on the UK Albums Chart. Its two singles also fared badly in the UK Singles Chart. Broudie was later unsatisfied with the album, and took the band on hiatus in 2000. After the Lightning Seeds had been a solo project for Ian Broudie, the project
The Big Three (English band) a reunion album, "Resurrection", released on Polydor Records. In 1999 Griffiths got together with another former Big Three member, Faron Ruffley, to do a small spot of Big Three numbers at the Merseycats charity night; the drummer for the get-together was Arty Davies (Faron's Flamingos). In 2009, RPM Records issued a CD compilation entitled "Cavern Stomp". The Big Three (English band) The Big Three were a Merseybeat group from Liverpool. They are best known for their 1963 recording of "Some Other Guy". The Big Three evolved from a group called Cass & The Cassanovas, formed in May 1959 by Brian