After building up momentum through a couple of EPs in 1986, the band recorded Drill Your Own Hole with producer Alex Fergusson, mostly in South London.

"[2] The band and their friends Crazyhead became known as innovators of grebo, a genre which played a crucial role in "bridging the gap between rock and hip-hop.

"[2] The publicity surrounding the band won them a contract with major label Virgin Records, for whom they immediately began work on their debut album Drill Your Own Hole.

[5] The sessions were engineered by Ken Thomas, with tape operating by Gail Lambourne, and with computer programming from Phillipp "Push That Dial" Erb.

[4] Similar to the band's previous work, the lyrics on the album generally humorously reference drug culture.

"[7] The almost electronic "Drive in Salvation" criticizes American evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, while "Zen Express" is, in the words of Mary, "about the nihilism of punk and the idealism of the hippie generation meeting head on.

[9] The album cover and lyric sheet were designed by cartoonist Ray Lowry, who was known for his artworks being published in the British music press.

"[15] In 2016, pop band Some Jerks similarly included the album in their list of "five unique merch items any diehard fan would want, surely.

"[17]The album was accompanied by a 60-minute film, also titled Drill Your Own Hole and made with the help of Lowry who designed the cover.

"[18] Howard Wuelfing Jr. of Spin was favourable, praising the album's protopunk influences and concluding: "Yeah, it's rude and mainly about raising an unholy racket.

At times they could have expanded more effort on making actual songs out of this brou-haha, which at points sounds like bad Foetus.

"[23] Trouser Press were similarly mixed in their assessment, saying "the intentionally chaotic noisy guitar rock (dressed up in wah-wah and moronic solos) shows some improvement in skill and lyrics (which still rely on drug culture jokes); the selfconscious posturing is spottily ear-catching but basically horrible.

"[4] Only a year later, Mary Byker expressed dissatisfaction with the drum sound on the album, telling American publication B-Side: "They're not at all like how he plays live.

"[3] The Leicester Mercury said the album "was full of good ideas and original music, but ruined by a terrible ’80s production: big drum sounds and everything smothered in multiple layers of unnecessary reverb.

They had supported Motörhead and were intending to play a double billing concert with the Butthole Surfers, although it "didn't come off" despite "the college and record company wanting [the band] too;" Mary explained, "It's a bit of a strange thing.

But there was this big thing in the British press, I don't know if you say it, The Butthole Surfers were slagging us saying the Gaye Bykers On Acid ripped off their title.

[The Butthole Surfers released a new album, Hairway to Steven] That's total bullshit 'cause we wrote that song in December.

"[3] The band toured the United States in 1988: "We do a mix of everything," Mary told B-Side magazine, "including new songs.