Billy Mackenzie entered my life for the first time via Top Of The Pops and the cinematically demented glam disco of Party Fears Two in February 1982.
Associates (Billy and Alan Rankine from Dundee and a variety of other contributors) had made a couple of very good but not hugely successful albums in The Affectionate Punch (Fiction, 1980) and Fourth Drawer Down (Situation 2, 1981, a collection of the singles from the year preceding).