Their guitar-led power pop has aged well, considering how they were so constantly bashed by the music press for being frothty and retro in the era of Gary Numan, The Specials, The Police, acts that are now very much of their time. The Tourists also contained one of the first Asian rock musician, Malaysian Eddie Chin. Sady by their third album, contractual wrangles and creative tensions between Pete Coombes and David Stewart were pulling them apart