1999
March 1999 saw the release of the first ever complete album of Stiffs material, when 'Captain Oi!' records issued the "Stiffs-the Punk Collection" on CD. The album was a collection of the band`s singles plus many hitherto unreleased demos and masters, covering the bands entire history.

Spurred on by the revival of interest in the band, original members Phil Hendriks, Strang, Tommy O`Kane and Big John McVittie staged a supposed one-off re-union concert in the band`s hometown of Blackburn, Lancashire in July 1999. This would be the first time all 4 original members had  been in the same room together for 12 years.
The hastily rehearsed sellout concert was recorded for posterity by the band`s old regular studio engineer Paul Adshead. The recording  was purchased by Trojan/Receiver records and  released the following year as the "Volume Control-live" CD album.

Summer 2000 found the original line-up re-united once more to play the UK "Holidays in the sun" Punkfest, which co-incided with the release of the "Volume control-live" album.
Towards the end of the year, negotiations took place with both EMI and Angel Air records for the future release of 2 separate retrospective albums. It was decided that the EMI album ,"Innocent Bystanders", would focus on the band`s early career up to the end of 1980 ,while the Angel Air project ,"Stiffology", would take the story from 1981 to 1988.