The Lodge Disbanded
Following the European concerts, the band – always loosely connected - drifted apart. Both Greaves and Blegvad resumed solo careers – in Blegvad’s case, far more happily than before (his next album, 1990’s King Strut and Other Stories, gained excellent reviews and he returned to a UK-based career). Jakszyk went on to work with Tom Robinson, Dizrhythmia, Level 42 and 21st Century Schizoid Band as well as pursuing a solo career (often accompanied by Gavin Harrison). Fier concentrated on the Golden Palominos, in which he was sometimes joined by Herman. Kristoffer Blegvad moved to Rome but continued to contribute to his brother’s recordings and live concerts.
In typical Henry Cow/Rock in Opposition fashion The Lodge’s participants worked together again in various combinations, but The Lodge itself was over. Due mostly to the band’s short life, the project has tended to be obscured by its members’ individual and collective projects both beforehand and afterwards. Enough interest in The Lodge remained to ensure that Smell of a Friend was reissued on the Voiceprint label in 1996.
Two songs from Smell of a Friend ("Swelling Valley" and "The Song") were later to reappear on John Greaves' 1996 album Songs, the former sung by Kristoffer Blegvad and S'Ange and the latter by Robert Wyatt (who also contributed a reinterpretation of two Kew. Rhone. songs - the title track and Gegenstand).
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