The band recorded their first two singles in 1986 with English producer Steve Brown (ABC, The Cult and Wham!)

At the Countdown Music and Video Awards of 1986, held in July 1987, "Great Wall" won Best Debut Single.

The label then flew the band to London to record their debut album at RAK Studios with producer, Alex Sadkin (Simply Red, Grace Jones, Talking Heads) and engineer, Will Gosling (Big Country).

After recording the album Sadkin travelled to the Bahamas to work, where he died in a car accident in July.

[citation needed] It spawned a further three singles, "City Flat" (June 1987), "Her Charity" (September 1987) and "Love Me to Death" (March 1988).

In an interview, Farnan said "The whole idea of the album was to capture a live band feel, rather than a meticulously layered, constructed studio artist sound.