Career
In February 2011 he was living in Twisp, Washington, in the United States with his family and is pursuing a solo career. He released two more solo singles, "Bigger Than Jesus" in 1987, an exploration of male sexuality that featured a close up photograph of his own penis as cover artwork (the single was sold in a brown paper bag in the shops that stocked it), and in 1989, a comment on the Northern Irish Troubles. He is renowned for his extrovert behaviour in public, as recounted in fellow band member Boff Whalley"s autobiography Footnote*, and was notorious for stripping naked at early solo performances.
In later years he has described himself as transvestite, and has often worn a nun"s habit during live performances.
He gained notoriety and a great deal of press coverage by tipping an ice bucket over United Kingdom Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott at the 1998 BRIT Awards. In July 2005 Nobacon played as part of a series of protest gigs against the G8 Summit that were arranged as an alternative to the official Live 8 concerts.
In August 2007 he released an album, The Library Book of the World, on Chicago"s Bloodshot Records label (with fellow punk-era stalwart Jon Langford"s group The Pine Valley Cosmonauts as his backing band). After giving up on a book about current events, it was announced that Exterminating Angel Press would be releasing an "anarchist fairy tale" written by Nobacon and illustrated by filmmaker Alex Cox called Three Dead Princes.
The release of Three Dead Princes coincided with the release of a new record entitled Woebegone in October 2010, during a United States. tour.