[1] The band was formed in 1998 by lead singer and songwriter John Blain Hunt [1] (well known in the Scott Glasgow indie music scene as the organiser of club night National Pop League).

On record, they first appeared in August 2006 on the HDIF label's compilation The Kids at the Club with their song "Days Like This Will Be the Death of Me", described as "wonderful" (though "Smiths-indebted") by The Guardian.

[4] Their first album, Profit in Your Poetry, was released in April 2007 (having been preceded by download-only single, "Girls Make Me Sick") and attracted overwhelmingly positive reviews, described as "flipping from string-skirling kitchen sink dramas to Motown bluster",[3] "a promising debut",[5] and having "an instant and addictive charm that even Mozzer would be proud of".

[2][3][5][6] The band released an EP, The Eighteenth Emergency, in September 2007, to tie in with several live dates in Glasgow and a short tour of England.

The band have made a video for the single, filmed in part at the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall in Glasgow.