The Now, founded by Mike McGuire and Steve Rolls late in 1976, were Peterborough's first punk rock band.
Mike and Steve were at the time performing with The Faderz, who had only existed for a few months, before they had hooked into the London Punk scene in 1976.
[citation needed] With intelligent songs, political lyrics and a real sense of small town frustration and anger The Now were unique.
As a result, a German record company, Last Years Youth, duly re-released both singles, containing a couple of previously unreleased versions of the original songs.
It was a logical progression (albeit unusual) to use this exposure as an opportunity to record and release a definitive version of all of the early songs written by The Now.
Mike McGuire and Steve Rolls went on to form 80's avant garde band Sudden Sway.