adamson auditioned parker (1980) at the members' rehearsal room in ladbroke grove, london and the next day was called on to play drums on demos for cbs records at their whitfield street studios. the demos were produced by adam sieff and just featured adamson, parker and watson. adamson had asked bassist dave allen from gang of four to join the band but he declined. adamson asked parker to join the band, which led to eight months of rehearsal in dunfermline in a disused furniture warehouse.