The group expanded to "Modern English" when Richard Brown (drums) and Stephen Walker (keyboards)[3] were added to the lineup of the band.
[4] When he reviewed the album, Johnny Waller of Sounds described the track as "A dreamy, creamy celebration of love and lust, which deserves to be showcased on as 12" single all by itself, with no B-side", while his colleague Tony Mitchell described it as "suburban amateurism at its most unrewarding".
[4] By the time the band convened to record a subsequent album, keyboardist Stephen Walker and drummer Richard Brown had both exited.
[4] Grey re-formed Modern English with Conroy and Davidson in 1989 to record a new album, Pillow Lips, released in 1990 on the American TVT label.
In 1995, with legal issues with TVT sorted out, Engine evolved into the next incarnation of Modern English and signed to the Imago label, with Grey and Matthew Shipley (keyboards).
The songs written with guitarist Steven Walker (not to be confused with the band's original keyboardist) and including Shipley came together on the road and back home in London between tours.
The original lineup of the band (minus drummer Brown) re-formed in 2010 and toured the US in July and September, and the UK and Paris in June the following year.
The current line-up of the band includes original members Grey, Conroy, McDowell and Stephen Walker, with Gabriel Sullivan on guitar and Richard Chandler on drums.