He began playing drums as a teenager, being influenced by England's 1960s Mod fashion and music movement and the work of Keith Moon.
[9] With Laff and Andrews' departure, Generation X essentially came to an end; a re-branded act, Gen X, with a replacement guitarist and drummer subsequently launched by Idol and James went on to fail commercially, and was gone by early 1981.
After leaving Generation X Laff and Andrews played together as session musicians on Jimmy Pursey's solo long-player, Imagination Camouflage.
On 20 September 1993, during Billy Idol's No Religion tour, Laff played with a re-formed Generation X in a reunion concert at the Astoria Theatre in London's West End.
[17] In 2019, he joined the touring line-up of LAMF, a band fronted by Walter Lure of The Heartbreakers which also featured Mick Rossi, former guitarist of Slaughter & The Dogs.