Visible throughout Live At Anti WAA Festival 1989 (starting at 0:31) and in this January 20, 1989 photograph of The Groundhogs performing at the Kazbah Music Club in Sunderland, which was posted to The Groundhogs' Facebook on August 16, 2018. The Auroc is also recalled in the following forum and Facebook posts:

speakerplans.com, January 30, 2013 reply by TONY.A.S.S.

Seeing that photo brought back memories. I was coming back home on the ferry after a trip to Frankfurt, and met Tony sitting on his own, so we we spent the whole trip just yacking about guitars. I was there with my guitars on show and I had seen him demoing some guitars made out of the same stuff they make Bowling Balls out of. He's never been too showbizzy, he just likes to get on with his playing. A true Muso.

Facebook, Tony McPhee, November 20, 2015

The grimace is,I'm sure down to the fact that my Auroc, being made of marble is heavier than a Gibson gold top SG!

Facebook, Tony McPhee, February 6, 2017

Groundhogs, Jon Camp, me & Mick Jones at the Horn of Plenty in St. Albans in 1988, with my Auroc & the badge I got from Jim Berger, a fellow finger style player I met at the Frankfurt guitar show when I went there to demonstrate the Auroc,meeting Tim Oakes there, who I hadn't seen since he interviewed me with the folk magazine he worked for.

NZGuitars.com, January 2020 reply by Molly

Watched Tony McPhee demo one in a pub in Warrington decades ago. I'd never heard of him at the time (though we did later open for him at one show) and I thought he was fucking awful. They gave him some multi-knob 800 Series half stack and he managed to get a fucking terrible tone from it.

NZGuitars.com, September 13, 2020 reply by Molly

Remember Aurock (sp?). The marble Strats from fuckin' ages ago. I watched Tony McPhee do a demo for them in a Warrington pub. He was shit. The guitar was worse. Must've weighed 20lbs. Skinny, short-arsed fucker. Guitar would've been about the same.

NZGuitars.com, November 25, 2021 reply by Molly

We opened for The Groundhogs once. Definitely wasn't our crowd....

Separately, I recall Tony McPhee doing a showcase for Aurock (sp?) guitars. They were made of reconstituted marble, were fitted with EMGs and weighed more than the sun. To show it off they gave him a Marshall half stack with more knobs than Jodrell Bank. He couldn't get a sympathetic tone for Africa. Poor bloke. It was a disaster.