They made a compromise with the system for public good and made a second request for land for a Music school and Music Business Centre but the application was again rejected. The band was taking water to the sea by spending money to uphold the Gambian music scene without returns or recognition within the Gambia. Facing such denials, impossible situations and political harassment and FEAR the band took a strategic retreat to Cassamance, in Senegal. The country was living-off the boys and pretending that they were useless while the world knew what was happening.