In 1988, Bass player Robert Tate and William McHugh formed a
band called 'Nuvo'.  Nuvo was based on Robert Tate's ability to
carry funky bass grooves, often inspired by bands like 'Duran Duran'
and 'Talk Talk'.  Although Robert Tate was a veteran in recording
studios and also performing live, William McHugh had little
experience.  He was interested in drama and film production.

The two met through a mutual friend and McHugh was impressed
by a heavily Duran Duran influenced song Robert Tate had recently recorded.
The two formed Nuvo and began writing songs with Bass
guitar and an old Korg Poly 600 keyboard.

Early recordings were done in a studio using a small 8 track reel to
reel and Tate supervising most of the actual instrumentation.
William McHugh wrote some of the material but often entered the
studio only to do a few vocal tracks and production work.  In fact,
an early laughable line of Robert Tate's was "Ok, this is the last song
we are recording, I want this to be your song."

Nuvo courted SBK Records with their completed self titled EP but
were rejected.  The two never attempted to release the recordings
themselves despite positive input from the public.

"SBK's rejection bothered me at the time" McHugh, "now
I'm just not that interested in a major record deal.  It's the people
who like our stuff that's great, I'm not involved with Worldcast to
appease a corporation or get rich.  Too many bands fell into that
trap in the 80s."

Following the rejection, McHugh took more responsibility
in the band's music.  He wrote and programmed more keyboard parts.
Robert Tate still carried a majority of lyrical ideas plus his bass and
guitar tracks.  Also the two began to use more outside musicians for
specific parts.

A big break came for the band.  As three new songs rolled out of a
more advanced studio, McHugh found a job doing what he loved,
film editing.  Nuvo was now in the music video arena too.

The resulting music videos won the band a lot of regional attention
as well as multiple awards.  Nuvo's music video 'Intention' was
nominated for five awards and won three, including Best New Song.
"Here we were, Nuvo, the band no one had heard of, and we were
pissing everyone off by stealing all the awards" Tate, "I almost got
in a fight with a steamed member of another band."

The music video awards, which had marketing and A&R executives
on the nomination panel, proved to Nuvo that their new music was
indeed marketable.

McHugh was even more involved in the band now, writing
entire pieces along with Tate.  Something happened in 1991 however,
McHugh had discovered Depeche Mode's album 'Violator'.  The
band's style began to shift from 80's synth to 90's rock.
"I didn't really think anything about Depeche Mode at the time"
McHugh, "I had never heard of them.  The more I heard Violator,
the more it spoke to me, especially the vocals."

Nuvo's song 'Penance' was the direct result of this influence.
William McHugh took more of the lead vocals with his lower tenor voice.

When the band recorded 'Press', they added a short-lived third member,
Timothy Williams, as guitarist.  "It's too bad it didn't work out," Tate
"a song isn't the same without the work of an excellent guitarist and
we don't ever want to be accused of being a 'keyboard band'."

The newer 'Inferno' song proved this point.  The song was about
burning down the band's synth past.  Heavy metal style guitarist
Patrick Clark was brought in for studio work.  The majority of
keyboard sounds in the song were actually sampled guitars.
McHugh performed heavier rock drums and Tate tracked a thumping bass.
"People really liked the song, it was nominated for a lot of awards.
I was confused that it wasn't put in the Heavy Metal category
however," McHugh "then I decided it wasn't noisy enough."

McHugh formed a production company in 1996 named
Infinite Vision.  Tate and McHugh also decided to change the band's
name to WorldCast because it was more descriptive of their future
intents, to cast their media to the world.  Infinite Vision has grown
a digital studio for WorldCast, where the band is currently recording
new songs including the soon to be mixed 'Shine'.

"Robert wrote shine almost completely by himself," McHugh
"I think he's taking us full circle back to a Duran Duran influence.
We're going to see some interesting combinations between our different
styles in future songs."

As for touring?  When Worldcast started filming the video 'Inferno' on
a laser and smoke filled dance stage, they were approached to open for
one of the area's largest crowd pulling bands.  The problem, they had
exactly four days to get ready for the show.  "The only way we could
have done it would have been to lip-synch to the CD" Tate "Even
though the management wanted us to do it for the publicity, there is
no way either Nick or me would have done that to our fans.  We'd like
to do some outdoor concerts and will be pursuing that after our new
recordings are complete."