Back in the UK
Homesick, Eliza returned to her parents house in Richmond for some well-deserved rest and to help out at her old dad's meat pie shop.
But it wasn't eight months before impresario Kenny DeBries rang Eliza up with word of a record deal with FNJ, a new division of Kimico Ltd., the Anglo-Japanese media conglomerate. This time Eliza was going solo. 
For her solo debut, Eliza worked with streetsmart dance/R&B producer Ian "Toffeebean" Harrington, crafting a powerful collection of dance tracks, featuring the single "U.B.U." - an anthemic and oddly hypnotic pop/funk/soul concoction that made it to #4 on the UK dance charts (April 1988).
The album was promoted by an ill-conceived pub tour that kicked off at the Pied Bull in Islington -- home to touring rock acts like Thin Lizzy, Mott the Hoople, and Black Sabbath. While the rough lads of the Pied Bull weren't the ideal audience for Eliza's glossy dance pop, the word quickly spread to wives and girlfriends that there was a new diva in town.
Meanwhile...