 He accepted, although he did not like their material, which he considered too sweet.Fidler says McDermott changed the group's dynamic; he wrote the majority of their songs and prompted a darker tone.After winning the Pick of the Fringe award at the 1986 Adelaide Fringe Festival, the group relocated from Canberra to Melbourne, where they based themselves with a regular gig at the Prince Patrick Hotel in Collingwood, in an effort to save enough money to travel to the Edinburgh Fringe.