throughout the 1990s ward worked with richard sinclair's caravan of dreams and going going, with sinclair, hugh hopper, vince clarke and mark hewins. in 1994 he joined mirage – a progressive "supergroup" combining members from both camel and caravan. other projects included the studio-only group chrys&themums, led by eccentric singer-songwriter yukio yung (aka terry burrows), who received drum tracks through the post from ward before building songs around them, playing all the other instruments himself. at this time ward also became full-time drummer with cult english rock band the bevis frond, with whom he recorded and toured extensively.