On the rise of punk, he left the music scene in 1977 and wrote film scripts. He then wrote a film score for a BBC TV film, with Phil Ryan, who had been in a late Piblokto! line-up. They collaborated for 12 years, and Brown formed his own label Interoceter, which issued two Pete Brown/Phil Ryan albums: "Ardours of the Lost Rake" and "Coals to Jerusalem". They began touring in 1993, and a compilation of the two albums was issued on CD as "The Land That Cream Forgot" (Vintage VIN 8031-2). In the 1990s Brown also appeared with The Interoceters, performing his earlier material.