After spending some time in Australia backpacking with Paul and getting a lot of positive feedback from the few demos that we had we decided to return to Enland and start recording as 404 a new demo of 5 songs. "Give All You Got" "Something I Need". "Revved Up" "Let Me Go" and "I Don't Want To Talk". The demo gained the attention of Rupert Hine a major record producer who has worked with Tina Turner Stevie Nicks, Chris DeBurgh etc. In his letter he wrote that he

"was beginning to feel that interesting tape from writers in this company without a record deal or indead with a record deal was becoming a rare phenomenon."

We had a recording contract with BMG Records (USA) within six months. but due to Rupert's other commitments and our manager's conflicting interests our album that we were in the final stages of recording at Metropolis Recording Studios was never completed before the change of management at BMG. We were told that a 3rd of artists signed to BMG where dropped in a cost cutting exercise and 404 were part of this. 404 ended soon after. However the songs didn't visit www.johnrlhunter.co.uk