 Keith Curtis (vocals) and Noel Kilbride (guitar) joined the group in 1983.Initially signing to the Ron Johnson label, debut EP "Loudhailer Songs" put them at the forefront of a wave of Beefheart-influenced bands that emerged in the mid-1980s, and won praise from the "NME".A review of the EP in "Sounds" described it as "pop music perfectly perverted".