Phil Durrant and John Butcher met, in 1984, at one of Phil Wachsmann's Saturday afternoon Morley College workshops.
They then began rehearsing with John Russell, and playing on the largely musician-run circuit of London venues.
ACTA records was set up to release their 1987 LP Conceits.

A reviewer at an early concert in Zürich wrote "Just as no-one understands the British humour, no-one understood this trio's music". Fortunately he was wrong, and the trio continued performing, touring and developing for more than another 10 years.

A powerful zero-degree music that doesn't know how to pander, even to itself.
New Musical Express

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Two live recordings from 1998
Musique Action, Vandoeuvre, France and the Red Rose Club, London

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Concert Moves

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German concert recordings.
Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen: 1992 and c.u.b.a., Munster: 1991

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Conceits

Recorded at South Hill Park Studio: 1987
LP released on ACTA.
Cover painting and design by Jamie Muir.

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