In 1984 Tanner composed a track, "Dreams and Visions",[3] which became a banner song for the Uniting Church's National Christian Youth Convention in Adelaide in 1985.
[6] All ten tracks were written by Tanner and it was recorded between October and December of the previous year with Kevin Moloney producing at Platinum Studios, Melbourne.
[6] Rolling Stone's reviewer, in January 1991 stated, "it is the music which makes Judges and Bagmen such a compelling album"[9] Additional musicians on the recording are Vika and Linda Bull and Broderick Smith.
The band toured extensively throughout Australia supporting artists such as Midnight Oil, INXS, The Black Sorrows, Hothouse Flowers, Hunters and Collectors and Paul Kelly.
[11][12] High-profile producers T-Bone Burnett and Boom Crash Opera's Richard Pleasance were engaged by Sony for Seven Stories' second album, Everything You Want (Nothing That You Need) (1993), which provided two singles, "Is that It?"
Drummer Algra played and recorded with a large number of artists including, T-Bone Burnett, The Waifs, The Borderers (with Glyn Lehmann), Jeanette Wormald, Jim Hermel, Andrew Clermont, Liam Gurner, and Jet O'Rourke.
He has created original music, songs and soundtracks for Australian Broadcasting Corporation television and radio, and the feature-length documentary I Told You I Was Ill – The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan.