[8] Laws, with his colleagues, created one of the first research groups to investigate impairment of everyday knowledge in patients with schizophrenia and to demonstrate worse cognitive outcomes in women suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Laws' work on the link between MDMA (also known as ecstasy) drug use and poor memory is the principal analysis of its kind to date, and has been broadly cited in both national and international media.
Laws and Johnson played as the The at gigs with Wire, Cabaret Voltaire, DAF, This Heat, the Birthday Party and Scritti Politti.
In September of that year, the duo of Johnson and Laws signed a deal with Some Bizzare Records, and released the 7" single "Cold Spell Ahead".
Following final demo recordings for Phonogram – "Three Orange Kisses for Kazan", "Waiting for the Upturn" – Laws left to pursue his studies, leaving Johnson as a solo artist using a group moniker.