Oliver Popplewell vice-chairman of the Parole Board, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. In 1975 he defended his godson Stephen Fry, who was 18 at the time, at his trial for credit card fraud. Popplewell and his wife had long been friends of Fry's parents. Stephen Fry writes about the event in his autobiography "Moab Is My Washpot". Following the fire at Valley Parade, the Bradford City stadium, on 11 May 1985, Popplewell was chosen to chair an inquiry held under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975. Following this inquiry, he was chosen to chair a Committee of
My Cat Is an Alien Space Is Made For", whose track "The Antigravitational Sense Of Nothingness" is featured in Wire Tapper 25 CD Compilation accompanying The Wire magazine No. 326 (April 2011). In 2008 My Cat Is An Alien also signed for Atavistic Worldwide. On September 14, 2011 My Cat Is An Alien's first thirteen years of activity were celebrated with "ALIENOLOGY: Selected Works 1998-2008", a ten disc box retrospective published by Elliptical Noise. My Cat Is An Alien have set up multimedia collaborations with vanguards such as Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Jackie-O Motherfucker,