From a background working in English fringe theatre groups, Punishment Of Luxury formed in December of 1976, in Newcastle.
[1] In 1979 they signed to United Artists and released the singles "Engine Of Excess" with Mick Avery on drums, then with new drummer Steve Sekrit (born Steven Robson), made "Secrets", and the album Laughing Academy.
Neville, Sekrit and Giro recruited guitarist Tim Magenta to a new lineup, now going by the name Punilux.
A little more than a year later they landed a gig at a small pub in Gateshead, in the north-east of England called The Three Tuns.
A definitive, career-spanning, five-CD box set was released on 8 November 2019, called Puppet Life (The Complete Recordings).