Million Dead singer turned folk troubador Frank Turner. His solo career began where Million Dead left off, and since then he has achieved cult status as a singer-songwriter. Dive Dive have often served has his backing band and appear on his records, and Chris T-T is now also a backing musician for Turner. In March 2008, he released Love, Ire and Song, his second album, to fantastic acclaim.
Franz Nicolay was a member of Brooklyn rockers The Hold Steady until his departure at the end of 2009, and punk orchestra World/Inferno Friendship Society. In 2009, he released his solo debut Major General. He recorded Luck & Courage in Brooklyn over two weeks during spring 2010, with producer Jim Keller (Willie Nelson, Franz Ferdinand) and spent the past summer as a touring member of agit-punk band Against Me! Nicolay has been hailed as a charismatic"born performer", "a storyteller and entertainer in the cabaret and vaudevillian tradition". From the stoic pathos of'This Is Not A Pipe' and the small-town grotesque of'My Criminal Uncle' to the ferocious noir of'Have Mercy' and the tender marriage ballad'The Last Words of Gene Autry', Luck & Courage marks his arrival as an aphoristic and heart-wrenching songwriter to be reckoned with.