From 1982 to 1984, Home operated as a one-person-movement "Generation Positive", and having already founded a punk band called White Colours (named after an experimental novel by R. D. Reeve) in 1980, he started a new group with the same name in 1982. He also published an art fanzine "SMILE", the name of which was a play on the Mail Art zines "FILE" and "VILE" (which in turn parodied the graphic design of LIFE magazine). The concept was that many other bands in the world should call themselves "White Colours", and many other underground periodicals should call themselves "SMILE", too. Home's early "SMILE" magazines mostly contained art manifestos for the "Generation Positive", which in their rhetoric resembled those of 1920s Berlin Dadaist manifestos.