Soon they found a new and superb keyboard player. Hugh Robert Banton was the younger brother of a friend at university. He was a classical trained organist, electronic whizz-kid and worked as a tv cameraman before joining VdGG. He went down from Manchester and met them in London, but very little happened apart from making lots of plans, the above mentioned session and hanging out with other musicians. They met Graham Bond (RIP) who was some sort of musical director at Mercury. Peter learned to play keyboards at Graham's Hammond organ.

When Peter and Judge went away for summer holidays, Hugh was left to find a manager and musicians to expand the group. He put an add in the underground paper International Times (IT). He also ran into the great Tony Stratton-Smith, soon to be their first proper manager.

      Here's Hugh's infamous IT ad.
      Notice the spelling.
      How could Hugh?
      (IT/38, August 23-September 5 1968)