The band soon increased to a five-man line-up, with Andy Sanders (guitar, vocals), Matt Salt (drums) and Dick Truscott (keyboards), they also later added two backing singers: Sarah and Wendy Patridge.

Their first single "Health" / "Continental Shelf" was released on local label Fried Egg Records in 1980.

[1] They toured as support to The Thompson Twins, which brought them to the attention of Stiff Records, who promptly signed them up.

The band's first single for Stiff was "Language Problems" in 1982, and this was followed by an EP in the same year, from which Toni Basil recorded "Beat Me Hollow" for her TV special.

The electric guitars also traveled with Peter Gabriel as his opening act during the Security tour.