Mándu joined Australian rock guitarist Lobby Loyde's group Southern Electric, and sang on their album, Obsecration (May 1976). He left for the United Kingdom and returned to Melbourne to record that group's live album, Live with Dubs (1980). McFarlane writes that he subsequently "disappeared from view, re-emerging briefly during the mid-1980s with a band called Mándu Bándu." He observed that the artist "was something of an enigma and a sadly overlooked talent. He had a distinctive and emotional voice, but only issued one album that was received with bemused indifference."
