Another Dulwich alumnus, Simon Ainley (Eric Smith Explosion, 801), joined on guitar in April 1978, and then in August, so did another, Bill MacCormick on bass.
Their first major exposure in the music press was not to come until a December 1978 interview, and article by Allan Jones, in Melody Maker magazine.
Separate contracts were made over the next two months for publishing with Tony Stratton Smith's Hit and Run Music and for management with Gail Colson of Gailforce.
[1] Regular, well-reviewed gigs at the Marquee Club, London, and a tour with XTC suggested that better things might have been on the horizon, but the next release, a 5-track EP "Avalanche", sold badly.
The band continued to operate on their saved advances, were scheduled to tour the US with Gabriel through June and July 1980,[2] and still had their publishing and management companies.
MacCormick in turn claimed back from Gailforce the money that he had personally invested in the band at the outset, and Random Hold was left penniless and inoperative.
That line-up included Pete Phipps (drums), Andy Prince replaced by Nigel Hardy and later Martyn Swain on bass, Steve Wilkin on guitar and Susan Raven on vocals.
MacCormick was in business as a record producer for a while afterwards, he withdrew from music activities later in favour of a political career with the Liberal Democrats.