With extensive stand-up and improv work to her credit, including as half of 'Pussyfooting' (with Benne Harrison), Emma has been an integral part of the McCoy Empire since 2001.

Emma's gloriously velvety vowels featured in True Cross as the Narrator. She voiced Chief Hardasski and Emelia Fatale in Will Yellowlegs: Pirate Cop, and brought to life Little Lizzie Lickspittle, the feisty street urchin with the never-give-up-and-never-admit-you're-riddled-with-tuberculosis attitude in Septimus Griffin and the Salad of Fear. This last role saw her singing, something she had somehow avoided up to this point.

Most recently, Emma has appeared in most of the C News pieces, in which she rocked. Tell her so at emma@fakemccoys.com.au.

The earliest incarnation of TFM was a trio, featuring Melissa Jhey, a uni friend of Christian's. After the, shall we say, 'embrionic' first gig at Melbourne Uni, she quite literally ran away to join the circus.

Current whereabouts: Living in Sydney.

Longtime friend and fellow traveller of the McCoys, Ian worked on the video components of Bonfire of the Flannies and Citizen McCoy (in which his Paperboy was a show-stealing highlight) before joining us onstage for McCoy TV.

Current whereabouts: Could have sworn we left him around here somewhere...

Melbourne comedy icon Duff joined TFM for 2000's McCoy TV, in which he alerted us all to the links between prominent financial institutions and our coming enslavement to the Robot Overlords. Famous for kissing Steve Bracks with a face covered in cream pie; less well-known is that he was for some years half of a comedy duo with some guy named 'Rove' somethingorother.

Current whereabouts: LOOK BEHIND YOU!!! Sorry.

We knew Terri from early CAV days, but hadn't heard of her in years when she suddenly burst back onto the scene in the late 90s. Terri leant her remarkable talents to McCoy TV in the 2000 Fringe Festival, before heading up to Sydney and becoming all famous and stuff.

Current whereabouts: seemingly chained to a microphone at Triple J. (Check out her new website).

Ever heard Nine Inch Nails played on a cello? If you answered 'yes', and you aren't Trent Reznor after he fell into wormhole in the space-time continuum and found himself in 18th century Vienna where he had to save the Conservatory from greedy, scheming developers, teaching Mozart an important lesson about the value of Rock along the way, you probably saw Bonfire of the Flannies. The musical skills of the youngest of the talented Price brood brought seriously undeserved grace and dignity to that show.

Current whereabouts: Probably pitching that kickass idea about Trent Reznor and Mozart to Hollywood producers somewhere.

Photo by Marcella Bidinost, courtesy of Dandelion Wine

From time to time, TFM has joined forces with "ambient indie groovers" (as the street press have it) Dandelion Wine, in a configuration known as "Dandelion McCoy." During DW's 1999 Fringe outing "Eat Your Brain", Dandelion McCoy gave the world the jazzy, upbeat version of "The Raven" I think we all agree was Poe's original intention all along...

Current whereabouts: Check out their website for gig and album details