As student entertainments secretary at Reading College of Technology, Apps was able to book his own band as support act to performers such as Ralph McTell.
Gus Dudgeon signed them as songwriters to Essex Music and the group won the support of A&R man and record producer Peter Eden, who had worked with Donovan, Mick Softley and others.
In 1970, they stayed at Pook's family farmhouse at Appleford-on-Thames in Berkshire, and recorded an album with a mobile studio in a field behind the house, picking up ambient noises such as bird song.
[3][1][2] Heron recorded their second album in a cottage garden at Black Dog, a small village near Crediton in Devon.
A set of recordings made by Apps, Pook and Jones with T. J. Robinson (guitar, vocals), in 1991, Hystorical, was released in 1999.