The first time they ever played together as a band was when the Hardrock Hotel in Las Vegas opened, on the 10th of March 1995. There were lots of great performers there, and so were these four guys; Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, (ex. Gunners) Steve Jones (the legendary Sex Pistols guitarist) and John Taylor (Duran Duran bassist). They were actually not a band from the beginning, but after this show they started to think about starting a band... and that was the beginning of a new great punk-rock band called, Neurotic Boy Outsiders.(which later just became Neurotic Outsiders, they changed the name in 1996).

 
They started to play gigs at the Viper Room in L.A., where they kept on playin' regulary. They are the hotest spot in L.A., when they are playin', the foursome have delivered the loudest, most abrasive punk rock set in Hollywood. And it's been a star-studdied affair, with people like Slash, Iggy Pop and Strays Cats frontman Brian Setzer making guest appearances. Also, various celebrities have turned up to witness the performances by artists ranging from Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell and Mike Inez, to German punk diva Nina Hagen, to actress Demi Moore.

They are playin' covers as well as own written stuff. They used to play songs like; Stooges "Raw Power", Damned's "New Rose" (With Sorum's extremely powerful drumming and Jones trademark sound, Neurotic Outsiders make these songs incredibly energetic), Duran Duran´s classic "Planet Earth" (they have made a surprising punk version of 1981 hit song), and the Pistol's "Pretty Vacant". When they perform live the vocals are split between Jones, Taylor and McKagan, the latter two shifting between guitar and bass. The band hasn't only made performances at the Viper Room, they have also been on a West Coast tour including a couple of live shows on the East Coast.

In September 1996 Maveric Records released their debut album, simply called Neurotic Outsiders. The album contains 12 songs, most of the songs are real punk-rock songs, but there are also a few "ballads". Song #8 on the album, called "Jerk" has also been made as a video, which has been shown on MTV.

The Devils is the name of an odd electronic pop project formed by Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy.

The first incarnation of the band Duran Duran in 1978 included Rhodes as keyboardist and Duffy as songwriter/vocalist (along with John Taylor and Simon Colley). The band performed live for almost a year before Duffy left the band, moving on to a solo career and The Lilac Time. Duran Duran went on to super stardom, fame, and fortune with singer Simon Le Bon in the 1980s.

In the year 2000, Duffy came across an old tape recording of a live Duran Duran concert from those late 1970s shows. Shortly afterwards, Rhodes and Duffy met by chance at a fashion show, and began talking about the old music. They decided it might be fun to re-record some of those original, dark, art-school, pre-Le Bon Duran Duran songs.

A few months later they took to the studio, using vintage analog instruments but modern production techniques to recreate the early Duran Duran sound. The lyrics remained unchanged.

The resulting album, Dark Circles is an odd blend of past and future. The lyrics are dark and arty, often inspired by Duffy's esoteric reading habits; the music is quirky and futuristic, but it is the electronic, robotic-tinged future of 1979, breathed back into life more than twenty years later.

The band played live only a few times before both members returned to their normal careers.