In no particular order, and certainly in cruelly undetailed fashion:
Fairnie the Producer, Video Director and Mentor

The band fizzled out but reunited for an a cappella performance of the old Fish Co number ‘Precious Lord’ at Fairnie’s funeral in 1993. This led to the more economically-named FAF recording and releasing a whole album of vocals-only songs, fittingly entitled ‘Precious Lord’ and dedicated to their former producer… The band sporadically get back together, last touring the UK in July 2011. See www.fatandfrantic.com

Fairnie artwork turned up on the cover of the recent Lies Damned Lies compilation ‘Retrospectively’. In the liner notes, Lies Damned Lies refer to Fairnie as their “friend and mentor during the mad years”.
> Further information about the Lies Damned Lies connection in the interview with singer Steve Butler here .
Fairnie the Stand-Up Comedian
Throughout his life, Fairnie was fascinated by the power that preachers, dictators and performers could have over their audiences. A power that Billy Graham, Hitler and Charlie Chaplin all used in radically different ways and for widely varying purposes.
Those who remember Fairnie on stage will remember the awesome charisma which he had, and his ability to hold a crowd in the palm of his hand. One of his final projects was to hone this charisma into a stage act mixing comedy and magic, loosely based on the theme of ‘Pop Icons of Our Time’. For some bizarre reason, he was billed as ‘Cliff Richard’s Love-Child’ , and the show went down a storm. Cliff Richard was unavailable for comment.
Fairnie the Greenbelt Icon

In ‘Landscapes of Glory’, the 1996 tale of Welsh writer Tom Davies ‘s pilgrimage into the ‘soul of England’, the following tribute is paid: “Walking on into the night again I remembered all the great characters I’ve met over the years I’ve been coming to Greenbelt… Steve Fairnie, that strange Bristolian who looked like a cross between Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin. He had a great singing act with his ravishing wife Bev but his speciality was hypnotising chickens, once putting five of them out – and a dog who happened to be watching the act – all of them flat on their backs with their legs poking stright up into the air. Steve died unexpectedly a few years back but his spirit continues to live with us all as closely as the secret dust in the linings of our pockets. He was there by my side still, a part of all of us at Greenbelt for all time, as I stood watching the dawn break…”
High praise indeed.
Fairnie in the Canvas Chair

Fairnie the Mad Inventor
Fairnie would usually have more bizarre ideas over lunch than many have in a lifetime. One such flash of inspiration almost reached fruition but not quite. As a seasoned motorway driver, Steve believed there was a market for new, improved cats eyes. For legal reasons, it is best the finer details be left well alone, but the concept involved creative use of colours and heat-sensitive particles.