 Moved to Auckland in 1969 and played drums in a couple of covers bands and Alastair Riddell's band, Orb.Riddell was at one stage a possible replacement for Phil Judd when he left Split Enz in 1977.As well as drumming on the first two Enz albums, Crowther (by this stage known as Emlyn), was an electronics and live sound expert who also built the synthesizers used on Mental Notes.