McAlmont and Butler was the creative collaboration of the pair that was formed when Butler quit Suede over six years ago but the pair split and later fought a war on the battlefield of the music press even though Butler told the NME in 1995:"David's a singer and I'm a songwriter. We worked together and then moved on to other things ."
The duo have consigned themselves to a London studio to work on a new material with a view to it seeing the first light of day early in 2002.