One critic noted, "What made Boys Brigade stand out was their strong use of percussionists in a standard rock/new wave format.
The two gathered the other members and contracted the manager Raymond Perkins, who booked them into a wide variety of clubs in the busy Queen Street West scene.
Every year, the station released an album of the best of the contest's submissions, and the Boys Brigade song "Mannequin" was included in the compilation.
Videos for "Melody" and "The Passion of Love" ran on MuchMusic; the song "Into the Flow" appeared on the soundtrack to the Canadian film Heavenly Bodies starring Cynthia Dale the following year.
The band went on a tour of Canada and the US Eastern Seaboard, including a show at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, New York which was recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour and included a ten-minute medley combining Del Shannon's "Runaway" and a hi-tech new wave version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind".