a configuration under the name 'almost the bonzo dog doo dah band' performed from 2012, more regularly featuring legs and the now 82-year-old vernon. this grouping played their final gig together as a five piece, alongside andy roberts, dave glasson and the eleven-piece keynsham town band in milton keynes. the following week, sam spoons' "bill posters will be band" played their last, and the week after, "bob kerr's whoopee band" (with vernon guesting) also disbanded. spoons died on september 27, 2018 following a long illness.