 He ran a second-hand record market stall, 'Marvel's Records', at Kensington Market in the early eighties.He appeared in The Style Council's 'A Solid Bond In Your Heart' video, from 1983.By 1985 Piller was scouted by Stiff Records as a label manager and A&R man for the Countdown Records label, where he gave fresh momentum to the underground mod scene by signing bands such as The Prisoners and Makin' Time, and by issuing the mod revival compilation album "5-4-3-2-1 Go!