[1] The band began touring internationally including performances in The Bottom Line club in New York, and at the Montreux Jazz & Blues Festival.

Increased tensions within the group led to members Gary Young and John Power leaving the band by June 1981.

But what happened was we were right at the end of the period when, in order to flog a record in the States, you were virtually out promoting the one you had out the year before.

"[3] Carly Darling from Billboard said; "On the group's second US album, Step Lively, the infectious sound staked out on last year's Screaming Targets is honed and refined."

Darling commented that all of the songs are of the "boy meets girl/boy loves girl" variety, but each are "handled in their own way" but added "for sheer good time grace, nothing on the album beats "Puppet on a String".