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As Brown and Squire began collaborating more closely on songwriting, they decided that they should take a larger slice of the money than the other band members ; Couzens and Wren left the band in protest, although they soon returned, and Couzens played an ill-fated gig with the band at the end of May before being pushed out of the band by Evans after flying home alone while the rest of the band returned in their van.

Although they failed to achieve further success in 1986, their repertoire expanded to include songs such as " Sugar Spun Sister ", taking on influences from bands such as The Jesus & Mary Chain and the indie-pop era Primal Scream (" Velocity Girl " being a major influence on " Made of Stone "), and they stopped playing the older songs.