As an initial idea of Deaf School ‘s Clive Langer , his friend Bill Drummond (guitar, vocals), Kevin Ward (bass, vocals), and Phil Allen (drums) formed the band in May 1977, playing only three gigs, the first of them at Bretton Hall College in Yorkshire. In August, the line-up grew to include Jayne Casey (vocals), Ian Broudie (guitar), and Clive Langer (guitar), who quit in September, but not before the band recorded their first song, “Big in Japan”, which appeared on the split single ” Brutality, Religion and a Dance Beat ” released the same year. In October, Ambrose Reynolds joined to replace Ward who then left that December, but Reynolds himself quit shortly afterwards and was replaced by Johnson.
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