between 2000 and 2006 hanson lent his talent as a drummer to various bands amongst which included the men they couldn't hang, baxter dury, joy zipper, the boy least likely to and secret affair. he also recorded and toured around the uk and the us with squeeze frontman and friend, glenn tilbrook. he worked on tilbrook’s albums "the incomplete glenn tilbrook", "transatlantic ping pong" and "pandemonium ensues" that was released in 2009.