They emerged from London's Balearic dance movement and were quickly caught up in a bidding war between the major record labels.
[citation needed] Their early gigs listed venues such as Danny Rampling's fledgling 'Milk Bar' and 'Eat The Worm' at the Hannover Grand, where they were supported by the then unknown Ocean Colour Scene.
They were the only London based band to play 'Factory Day' at 'Cities in the Park' with The Happy Mondays, Electronic and A Certain Ratio.
This almost exclusively Mancunian mini-festival was a memorial festival for the recently deceased Martin Hannett run by Factory Records.
The band's first single "Strange World" was voted 'record of the week' by BBC Radio 1.