Phoebe Judge

Billy went back to Scotland and eventually got a job on an oil rig.

Gavin stayed in London and tried to make it work without Billy.

But Sony stopped taking Gavin's calls.

He says it was hard to give up his American persona.

He worked odd jobs.

For a while, he worked for an American skate shoe company.

He spoke in an American accent when he applied, and they thought he was American.

And then, a couple of years after Syllable and Brains split up, Gavin heard that one of his closest friends from childhood had cancer.

And he decided to put on a show.

But right before Gavin was about to go on stage, he heard that his friend had died.

Billy and Gavin didn't speak for years.

But in 2012, they briefly got back together to record and finally release a Syllable and Brains album.

They called it Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Gavin went on to have his own music career.

He's working on an album right now.

And you're doing it all now in a Scottish accent.

Criminal is created by Lauren Spohr and me.

Nadia Wilson is our senior producer.

Katie Bishop is our supervising producer.

Our producers are Susanna Robertson, Jackie Zajico, Lily Clark, Lena Sillison, and Megan Kinane.