A few weeks after watching that show, Marcus was in Portobello Road in West London shopping for some funky stage clothes. As he walked out of the head shop 'Alchemy' he was startled to almost bump straight into none other than Lee Perry!

He was shocked - "Lee Perry!" he said; "I'm a big fan of yours!" and he thrust out his hand to shake, to which Perry responded with a fist bump, his hand encrusted in rings. Lee nodded and carried on walking alongside his Rasta companion. Marcus was riveted to the spot as he watched the pair walk along Portobello road and he thought to himself; "That was Lee Perry! Am I just going to let this opportunity walk away without pursuing it?" to which he sprinted up the road after his musical hero - "Scratch" he said "I've got a reggae band and I'd love for you to work with us!" to which Lee turned to his friend - Tony Owen - and said "give him your number" Tony wrote the number on a piece of paper and handed it to him and Lee said "ring this number tomorrow and we'll arrange something."

Marcus was over the moon - Lee Scratch Perry! The Upsetter! It was with great excitement that he broke the news to the band - which was met with sceptical disbelief. However when he'd made the arrangement to visit Lee Perry at Seven Leaves Records in Kensal Rise he made sure to take Louie along with him to confirm that it wasn't all made up.

They sat in Tony's shop and listened to the demo tape, and Lee agreed to attend a rehearsal with the band. The following week Marcus got his friend Steve Hadfield to drive up to Sandra Cooley's house in Queensbury West London to pick up Lee and Sandra and bring them to a Studio Six rehearsal at The Pyramid - the local pub where the band rehearsed regularly. Lee loved the idea of a pub called The Pyramid and the rehearsal went OK all things considered with Lee toasting rude and filthy lyrics and making everyone laugh.

Lee went back to Marcus's house afterwards to drink and smoke, and the pair began a friendship that would last for the rest of Lee Perry's life.

Lee agreed to join Studio Six to play some shows - the first show was organised to be played at Stevenage College. It was a benefit gig for striking Yorkshire miners who were at the time in a battle with the Conservative government.

The gig was quite successful, although there was some murmuring in the band about Lee's sanity - he wasn't exactly what people expected from a veteran Jamaican artist, he liked to get very drunk and stoned, and he refused to play any of the songs people would associate with him, preferring to talk about 'shit' and 'piss' and various other obscenities. However once again tensions were developing in the band, and disagreements between the founding members and some newer arrivals were coming to the fore.

Colin French the guitarist was being edged out despite being a founder member, and there was a drift away from the foundation of the band's roots - to Marcus this was almost like a repeat of the tensions in The Night Doctors that had upset him so much that he'd quit music altogether.

Marcus had organised another gig with Lee Perry at one of the venues where he'd been promoting regular gigs for their 'B.R.I.A.N' live music promotions in previous months - a well known Jazz venue called The Bell Inn, in Codicote - and he invited another upcoming local three piece Reggae outfit called 'Dub Factory' along as support act.

Louie insisted that the gig should be billed as 'Studio 6 versus Dub Factory' but this went totally against all Marcus's instincts of promoting unity and togetherness - to him it wasn't a 'sound clash,' it was a 'unification operation.'

When the bands played the gig the atmosphere was fraught with tension and bad vibes that the sensitive Lee Perry picked up on. He cursed the "bad energy" over the mic during his performance. The gig was very successful all the same, and everyone present had a great night.

The tensions came to a head very swiftly afterwards, when a "band meeting" was called a few days later at the Pyramid, and Marcus was confronted with the ultimatum: "we think Lee Perry is a washed up old fart who will never do anything for our band - it's either him or us!" to which Marcus instantly stood up from the table and said "if anyone wants to join me come now" - Zebby the percussionist and Russ the keyboard player both left the meeting with him, and they walked away from the band that Marcus had started and left the rest of the guys to it.

The next day Marcus arranged a meeting with Spike - leader of Dub Factory - and proposed that they unite and form a new band to back Lee Perry.