Yet another band member birthday today! This time it’s the turn of bass legend Steve Smith. Many happy returns of the day Mr S x

We’re pleased to confirm that The Vapors are appearing as special guests of The Skids at the Assembly in Leamington Spa on Thursday 4th November. Tickets are onsale now here

We’d like to wish many happy returns of the day to Ed Bazalgette. Hope you have a great day Mr B x

Exactly 40 years ago today, back in 1981, the band released their sixth single ‘Jimmie Jones’ which was the second taken from their ‘Magnets’ album. It was backed with another track from the album, ‘Daylight Titans’, and was far more commercially accessible than its predecessor ‘Spiders’, despite the subject matter of a mass-murdering cult leader!

To boost the promotion of the release, EMI stumped up the cash for a video to be made and there’s a feature about the making of the video coming very soon. The band even secured an appearance on Top Of The Pops with the single which you can watch here. Sadly, neither the video nor the TOTP appearance helped the single rise above that fateful 44 chart position and the band called it a day within a few months of its release. Listen to Jimmie Jones on Spotify here

The band’s long-time roadie Tim Cox is also a keen mountain biker and he is cycling 200 miles off-road in May to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK. If you’re able to sponsor him for this worthy cause, you can find his fund-raising page here Thanks