A group of Isle of Wight friends came to London in 1994 with a supermod dream. They called it PPQ. “What does that mean?” “That’s a pretty personal question”. Looking for inspiration after Freaky Realistic and Add N to X, Justin Anderson (JLA, member of Mains Ignition) had already been charmed by PPQ’s spiritual leader Julian “St Jude” Kennedy and immediately felt at home with their mod but not mod philosophy. 
 Justin met Dave “Hairy Diamond” Rabjohns, Tim Boogaloo, Dave Ellis and Graham Very who like himself had been had been posing and pontificating to questions in various 90s print media. PPQ leader on Earth Percy Parker and Amy Molyneaux set up the clothing label PPQ. Then Paul “Compo” Harrison from the London Hip Hop Club Scratch teamed up with JLA and the Hairy Diamond and MAINS IGNITION was born. 
 Justin produced the so called “Hancock version” of Never Never with the Libertines. The Hairy Diamond went solo to give us the down tempo classic “Giving Up” and of course the seminal “Testify” produced by Mains Ignition. This track would unite the big/break beat and the beat beau Monde mod dance floors with it’s stripped down sassy ways and was included in all the late nineties compilations that mattered, from Acid Jazz’ re launched Totally Wired to the downbeat bible Dope on Plastic. 
 At this point they recruited Adam Ficek (RKC) and Lester Jones on drums and bass to go fully live securing a deal with Shoreditch Indie Pioneers Tummy Touch.