 Dangerfield’s art college friend, guitarist Honest John Plain, was recruited and in June 1976, two of Plain’s co-workers at a T-shirt printing company, bassist Duncan "Kid" Reid and drummer Jack Black, completed the line-up.Steel (ex-Hollywood Brats) and Dangerfield played in the London SS together.The band's early recordings were made in a home recording studio which Dangerfield had set up in his rented basement apartment in Maida Vale.