To celebrate Go West's 20th anniversary in 2005, the duo undertook a UK tour and began working on the songs for what would become futurenow.

It contained seven new songs and three older tracks,[3] and was recorded at redfish studios and Les Ballons du Chien.

[4] The album was met with mixed reviews and some critics questioned the band's decision not to work with a producer.

[8][9] In a 2010 interview with This is Not Retro, Cox spoke of the album's lack of success and how this led to him taking the role as a singer in Manfred Mann's Earth Band instead of recording further Go West material.

After not being very lucky with radio support for futurenow Richard was a little demoralised while I was wanting to be writing songs and recording another album.