the first public fruits of bowie and gabrels working together came with a new arrangement by gabrels of the song "look back in anger" which bowie had written with brian eno in 1979 for the album "lodger". the occasion was a benefit show at london's institute of contemporary arts (ica) on 1 july 1988 at which bowie had been invited to perform with the avant-garde dance troupe la la la human steps. bowie sang, played and danced with troupe members while in lighted grottoes upstage three musicians (gabrels on guitar, kevin armstrong on guitar, and erdal kızılçay on bass) played the new minute score that gabrels created from the 3-minute song; the new material included drums programmed by kızılçay. "we went into the studio to rearrange it," said bowie in a filmed interview; "i like the hard-edged wall of guitar sound that we put into it."