Death, it seems, can offer a whole new lease on life. That at least seems to be the case for the band formerly known as The Sexby-Brown Trio. Recently deceased Browneye and T-Bone have formed a new tribute band in honour of their heroes, Browneye and T-Bone. The tribute act is to be called (depending on which member you ask) either "The Sexby and Brown Trio," or "The Brown and Saxby Trio." T-Bone believes the addition of 'and' to the title is just the new direction the Trio needs.

"Initially we were going to add an exclamation mark but we decided that was too commercial. We have always favoured artistic integrity over fancy punctuation. We got rid of the hyphen which was confusing our fans and replaced it with the more sturdy, 'and.' 'And' is the most important word in the world, it is just not possible to make a sentence without it. You can't make sentences without 'and' you as much as you can't make music without Sexby Brown."

The new band have wasted no time in hitting the recording studio to record their first album; a tribute to the Sexby-Brown Trio. Initially the pair sought to collaborate with artists they admired to produce new interpretations of classic Sexby-Brown interpretations of other peoples songs. There was tentative interest from Michael Bolton and Simply Red, but nothing more. Browneye believed the lack of interest was for the best, particularly given Bolton's new departure from his trademark hair.

"Nobody admired the Trio as much as we did so it is only fitting that we do all the songs on the tribute album. Nor can anybody do the songs quite the same justice that we can." Browneye was also unfazed by those who have questioned the commercial viability of a tribute album to a band that never actually sold any albums. "The Brown and Saxby Trio are a new group with a new credit rating and we have an 'and' now."

T-Bone discussed the difficulties of producing an album in tribute to oneself. "We all know what a complete lack of impact the Trio had on music. It is quite daunting then to follow that up with something as irrelevant. We wanted to remain true to the sound of The Sexby-Brown Trio while bringing our style to the project. In the end it wasn't much of an issue because our covers of the original Sexby-Brown covers sounded surprisingly similar."

Browneye spoke positively of the pairs newfound unity and focus. "We still don't like each other, but we realise that there is something more important than T-Bone's drug problem and my hair solution. That is our fan." If all goes well and the tribute album gets off the ground and T-Bone's dad lets him borrow the car then the two are planning to take the tribute band on the road playing covers of all your favourite Sexby-Brown Trio covers in nursing homes across the suburbs.