(March, 1981) and Weeds (October, 1981) both produced by Todd Hunter of New Zealand/Australian band Dragon and released on their own label Axle Records.

Hunter later joined XL Capris as guitarist and subsequently married Pigott; they became a successful songwriting team: cowriting "Rain" for Dragon and "Age of Reason" for John Farnham.

He and Pigott worked together creating the 1984 ABC-TV series Sweet and Sour which chronicled the activities of a fictional band, The Takeaways, and their efforts to succeed in 1980s Sydney Pop music scene.

[3] Tim Gooding and Johanna Pigott had studied Architecture during the early 1970s at the University of Sydney along with friend Angela Webber.

[4][5] Early practice sessions by XL Capris were held in the front room of a rented house where Gooding (and later Rendall) lived.

The promo video, recorded at the Sheraton Hotel in a room The Beatles had occupied during their Australian tour, featured the four band members in bed together!

"Skylab (Son of Telstar)", written by Gooding and Rendall, received radio airplay as a tape in mid 1979.

Street poster art featuring XL Capris include: Toby Zoates' 1978 screenprint, XL Capris[9] for the B-side of 1981 single "Red Bikini Runaway" called "K-Tel City" (Gooding) and has the band on the bonnet of a car crashing into a TV game show; and Paul Worstead's 1979 screenprints, Settlement Dance - Scarlet, XL-Capris[10] and XL-Capris, Settlement - Beginning of School Holiday Dance.