Stephanie Johnson is Smoking Ant's illustrious designer, producing all the logos, artists' pages and record sleeves with a sniper's eye and a surgeon's hand. We heartily endorse her creative force. http://ravenseyrie.wordpress.com/

Rob Sedgebeer is Smoking Ant's webmaster and indeed fulfills that task for so many sites that we predict it's a matter of time before he becomes master of the entire web. Here is his own baby: http://www.notbbc.co.uk/

Disc Wizards have magnificently manufactured both discs and sleeves for CDs by Bisonics, Loudsneakers and Reticents, and Smoking Ant Records are honoured to be associated with them. For all your record-making needs, go here: http://www.discwizards.com/

Marko Fontaine was the first champion of Reticents and Bisonics on his Punk Rock Jukebox radio show. Catch it if you dare on Thursdays 1700 - 2000 GMT right here: http://video.conncoll.edu/wcni/wcni_live.html

Jason Emberton, when he isn't engineering and mastering for much of our catalogue, is a prodigiously musical gun-for-hire (his High Above The Storm group's eponymous album was one of 2009's hidden delights). Find him here: http://www.myspace.com/jasonembertonmusicproduction

The combos on Smoking Ant are notoriously stage-shy and therefore feel nothing but deep empathy for others who also make the studio their home.

• Harry Nilsson (1941-1994), apart from a couple of unbilled guest appearances, avoided the spotlight. The tribute site http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/ is a treasure trove of rarities and memorabilia.
• Andy Partridge quit touring in 1982 but continued making records both with XTC and without. Find his own record empire here: http://www.ape.uk.net/welcome.html
• Kevin Godley spent the 1980s making idiosyncratic records, videos and books with Lol Creme. After 20 years working in the visual arts he returned to music-making in 2006 with schoolfriend Graham Gouldman (they were also the rhythm section of '70s pop art band 10cc). Hear what they got up to at http://gg06.co.uk/

"If you only ever read one book in your life, I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut." - Simon Munnery
"One good fist is worth a thousand words." - Attila The Nun
"Show me the book about rare trees and I'll show you a dumb career move." - O'Manninpub