Despite the positive reception Falling Up received, Ayers by this point had almost completely withdrawn from any public stage. An acoustic album Still Life with Guitar recorded with Fairground Attraction surfaced in France on the FNAC label and was subsequently released throughout Europe. After a European Tour in April/May 1992 his musical partner Ollie Halsall suddenly died of a drugs related heart attack. Some collaborations with Ayers fanatics Ultramarine and a couple of concert tours of the U.K./ Europe during 1995 and a resulting live album, 'Turn the lights down',[Market Square,Records, 1999] with Liverpool's Wizards of Twiddly completed his output in the 1990s.
