Hoodoo Gurus's eighth studio album, "Mach Schau", was issued on 15 March 2004 in Australia. This was six years after the band had officially split up in January 1998; and almost eight years after their previous studio album, "Blue Cave" (May 1996). The title is a reference to the German phrase, ""make show"", which The Beatles were told on each night's performance during their residency in Hamburg, Germany in the early 1960s. By early 2003 the group had re-formed with the previous line-up of Dave Faulkner on lead vocals and guitar; Rick Grossman on bass guitar; Mark Kingsmill on drums; and Brad Shepherd on lead guitar and vocals.