Canberra-based drummer Cathy Green was a huge fan of the band X and, already knowing the songs, replaced drummer Steve Cafiero in 1984 for the Melbourne tour on a few days' notice. Not long after that, Cafiero died when injected with a dye prior to an X-ray for a back complaint, and Cathy became a permanent member of X. The band's second album, 'At Home With You' (1985) was recorded in Melbourne at Richmond Recorders. The album stayed in Australia's top 20 Independent charts for 29 months. A third album, 'X And More' (1989) followed, and like the previous albums, was produced by Lobby Loyde who had been in the hard rock group Rose Tattoo with Ian Rilen in 1979–1980. After X disbanded Rilen put together Hell To Pay with Spencer P. Jones (ex-The Johnnys), drummer Tony Biggs and Cathy on bass. They released a single ''Saints And Kings'' in 1991 on the Red Eye label. Cathy departed after the release.
As of 2004, Rilen had settled on a fairly stable line up of his current project, Ian Rilen & the Love Addicts, with Cathy Green now playing bass. Rilen was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2006. Rilen was unable to play his last gig. Just a week after his benefit show, the Love Addicts were booked to play the Greyhound in Melbourne.
“He was determined,” says Cathy Green, “he said, I’m coming up, and he drove all the way up. Everything was set up for a sound check, and so he strapped on his guitar and we started “Booze to Blame” and we really only got about half a line into it and he just couldn’t do it, couldn’t sing. He just didn’t have the breath, the tumour was pressing onto his lungs.” Green has played reunion shows with X after Rilen's death.
