[2] The chosen album was announced with its track listing displayed in Issue XIV (14) of the official Madness "MIS" Nutty Boys fanzine (published during August 1986).
[3][4] Another prominent reason why the album was not completed was because four of the members (Carl, Suggs, Lee and Chris) wished to use the tracks they had written for the next band they were forming.
The recorded tracks were produced by Madness stalwarts Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley who, for the first time in the band's history, were drastically dropped.
[7] The Nutty Boys fanzine mentioned that Stuart Levine might produce the album as "the band were getting stale and needed a new direction and some fresh ideas".
Nonetheless, the songs remained only demos at this stage and perhaps therefore lack a sufficiently comprehensive indication as to how they may or may have not developed in terms of finished studio production.
The issue stated: "The theme will be ghosts, hocus pocus, hubble bubble, forests and streams, witching hour, creatures of the night, etc."
According to John Reed's book House of Fun: The Story of Madness, the tracks "continue to be the subject of conjecture among their fans, fuelled by subsequent investigation".