Half a Cow switched distributor to Mercury Records, which was followed by a change in 1998 back to Festival Records. In early 2000 Half A Cow ended its relationship with Festival Records and now the label is completely independent and distributed through MGM Distribution. Chatfield moved to Melbourne to pursue touring with Spunk and the label is managed by Dalton. Since its establishment in 1990 Half A Cow has put out over a hundred and forty releases by a long line of bands, including work by Dalton and bands he has been in (such as Sneeze, Godstar, a re-issue of The Plunderers' "Banana
Thermal and a Quarter Thermal and a Quarter (2000), Jupiter Café (2002), Plan B (2005), This Is It (2008), 3 Wheels 9 Lives (2012), The Scene (2015), and No Wall Too High (2015). Mani won Guitarist of the Year at the Jack Daniels Rock Awards in 2009 and 2012. In 2010, TAAQ opened a music school in Bangalore, called the "Taaqademy", with branches in Koramangala and Whitefield. The Whitefield branch was opened in 2014. Thermal and a Quarter Thermal and a Quarter (TAAQ) is a rock band from Bangalore, India, that describes its music as "Bangalore rock", rooted in a classic rock idiom while