[3][4][5] On 16 October 1978, they released their debut EP, the four-song 7-inch Bits, on their own Spec Records label.
[6] PragVEC played concerts during 1978 and 1979, opening for bands such as Cabaret Voltaire, Scritti Politti, the Psychedelic Furs, the Monochrome Set, Au Pairs, Magazine, Chelsea, Stiff Little Fingers and the Teardrop Explodes.
[9] The last of these showed them moving away from the guitar-based sound of the first EP towards the use of the Wasp, a battery-powered portable synthesizer with a built-in speaker.
[4] Studholme, who had co-written many of the band's songs with Gogan, died in November 2005 after a long illness.
Around the time of his death, he, Gogan and Cash had been working with Mute Records to compile a reissue of PragVEC material.