Their vision was of a swinging show with a big band sound, styling threads and songs everyone could dance to.
This flash of inspiration took place outside the doors of the art deco Enmore Theatre in Sydney, after the band's first photo shoot.
Bandleader and drummer "Nugget" was rapping in hip-hop clubs at 16, drumming in the hardcore band Pitbull Attack, and ice-skating professionally, until his constantly recurring injuries forced him off the ice.
With some influence from his sister, "The Boss", and her musical tastes in ska, swing, rockabilly and anything from their parents' era, they set out to find others with the same passion.
This included "The Boss" meeting Gil Morgan, then working in a shop, who became the band's first guitarist and one of the principal songwriters, writing the songs "Masterplan" and the audience favourite "Delores (The Unstoppable)".