In reply to Blue Straggler:
The Florists didn't make any records. There's a interview with Lawrence Diagram where he briefly mentions them:
LD: I did a Peel Session as The Florists, remember.
JT: That was a band, or just you?
LD: No, it was a band. It was Stef, wasn't it. It was Mike, I've forgotten his surname.
AD: He's married to Kath from Dislocation Dance - Kathryn Way's husband. A photographer.
LD: But he's a really imaginative songwriter, and a multi-instrumentalist as well. And we morphed then into Macho Men Crack Under Pressure, which I always thought was a brilliant name for a band. And that was getting better actually. But then I think it was around then I decided, I dunno, I think I decided I'd had enough of pretending to be a musician.
https://www.ltmrecordings.com/diagram_brothers.html
I'm in contact with a guy who is currently researching the Manchester Musicians' Collective - I'll drop him a line and see what he has to say.
Post edited at 09:15