A jam with neighbour Jason Young (Excellent Soul Therapy and Cultivation) during May 1991 led to the reformation of Loves Ugly Children with their first gig only two weeks later.
The Uglies continued to have a strong live presence in Christchurch, including performing at the Avalanche CD release gig (April 1993) in front of an audience of one thousand.
LUC slowly built up their national following with successive North Island tours, eventually winning over Flying Nun's Roger Sheppard, and were signed to the seminal NZ label in early 1994.
Flying Nun released the self-funded EP in December 1994.. LUC started 1995 with their second appearance at the Big Day Out in Auckland, having played the first NZ BDO the year before.
The band was starting to gain a strong national momentum at this point, and began pre-production for their first Flying Nun album Cakehole.
During the latter part of 1995 LUC played in Australia on a Flying Nun bill with Garageland and King Loser, released an EP and video for the song Personal World, contributed to the Flying Nun ABBA tribute album Abbasalutely (they covered Honey, Honey) and ended the year with an extended tour in the UK.
During their time in London, Loves Ugly Children recorded the EP Suck and played many shows before financial constraints forced them home to Aotearoa.
He featured in the last ever LUC video, Voodoo Girl and toured with them to Australia before Simon and Floss parted as a couple in September 1998, thus ending the career of Loves Ugly Children.