There appears to be more than one band that uses the name 'The Sidemen'. Two of them ( I. & II.) are mentioned below. I. The story of The Sidemen starts like a modern urban myth: I first noticed the activities of these curious three gentlemen at my workplace, a research center I'm not at liberty to talk about. My colleagues were mostly to themselves, scarcely coming out of their lab. These three serious-looking blokes from somewhere in Eastern Europe excelled in the high art of never being seen in public. Trying to learn what their secretiveness was all about, I sneaked to their lab and heard weird sounds from inside. In fact, it was music that sounded all too familiar.