Kathy sang on the first two Oyster LPs, but she'd split with them when I first came across them in Canterbury in the early '80s. My flatmate taught at the same school as John Jones, and the band used to congregate in the Royal Dragoon in Canterbury, most nights. They played a couple of benefits during the miners' strike in the social clubs of the doomed pits at Snowdown and Tilmanstone. Great days, if you weren't a miner.