In May 1977, at the petition of Deaf School's Clive Langer, he founded the punk and post-punk band, Big In Japan, being the drummer; he played in some songs which later appeared on the From Y to Z and Never Again EP, but became less inspired and left in December 1977.
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The band comprised future and past successful musician then Jayne Casey, guitarists Bill Drummond (later with The KLF), Ian Broudie (later of Care and The Lightning Seeds) and Clive Langer (of Deaf School), bassist Kev Ward and drummer Phil Allen.