When Hutchinson left, Perry took on vocal duties briefly before the band split in 1991.
and “re-vocal” the LP, which was released as Mecca in 1990.
forcing the rest of the band to recruit a new singer, Charles Hutchinson, in January 1989
Original singer Steven-E left in September 1988, during the recording of their second LP
In 1988, Channel 4 began using “Don’t Get Mad…” as the music for the American Football programme, which ran over the next three years.
The band signed to Virgin in January 1987, and embarked on a nationwide UK tour.
The band made their London debut at the ICA Rock week in July 1986.
A second Peel session was recorded in June 1986, with “Be Fast, Be Clean, Be Cheap”, “From Now On, This Will be Your God”, “Kiss” and “How the West Was Won”. “Kiss” was recorded for the John Peel session while the Prince single was still in the charts.
The band then signed to the Sheffield independent record label, Fon, for “Kiss” and its remix 12-inches and six track mini-LP Crush Collision . “Kiss” was No. 2 in John Peel’s Festive Fifty for 1986.
They released their second self-funded single, “Bible of the Beats” / “Liquid Jungle” in January 1986, which led to an invitation to contribute a track, “From Now On, This Will Be Your God” on the NME C86 compilation tape.