1984 verließen er und sein Bandkollege, der Gitarrist Colin Woore, die Band, um unter dem Namen „How we live“ ein Album aufzunehmen (Dry Land - 1987), das erfolglos blieb. ###>Hogarth himself, however, took a little longer to make up his mind, holding as he did at the time a potentially lucrative offer to tour the U.S. on keyboards with The The.