Jazzateers were a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

/post punk group formed in 1980 who recorded for Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...

, before evolving into Bourgie Bourgie in 1983. Members included singer Paul Quinn, and Grahame Skinner

Grahame skinner

Grahame Skinner is a Scottish musician who currently fronts the band Skinner. He has been the lead singer for a number of bands.He has been a member of:* The Jazzateers * The White Savages / Kites * Hipsway...

, later of Hipsway

Hipsway

Hipsway were a Scottish pop/rock band.The band was formed in Glasgow in 1984 by ex-Altered Images guitarist Johnny McElhone on bass, and featuring Grahame Skinner , and Harry Travers . Skinner and Travers had been members of the band Kites with Paul McGrath and Ian McGreevy before Hipsway formed...

 and members of Del Amitri

Del Amitri

Del Amitri were a Scottish pop-rock guitar band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1983. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after teenager Currie placed an advertisement in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him...

.

History

The band was formed in 1980 by guitarist Ian Burgoyne and bass guitarist Keith Band, who recruited drummer Colin Auld and by 1982, singer Paul Quinn. One of their early recordings, "Blue Moon Over Hawaii",was later included on the Messthetics series of compilations. The band were the last to be signed by Postcard Records

Postcard Records

Postcard Records is a Glasgow-based independent record label founded by Alan Horne in 1979, as a vehicle for Orange Juice and Josef K releases. The label's motto was "The Sound of Young Scotland", a parody/tribute to the Motown motto; its logo featured a cartoon cat beating a drum...

, for whom they recorded an album in 1982, although the label's demise left it unreleased. They were then signed by Rough Trade, who released the "Show Me the Door" single and a self-titled début album in July 1983. Both were hits on the UK Independent Chart, with the album peaking at number 14. Quinn had left by 1983, to be replaced by Grahame Skinner, and Skinner also left to join Hipsway. The band split up shortly afterwards with Burgoyne & Band joining up again with Quinn and drummer Kenny McDonald to form Bourgie Bourgie.

Burgoyne and Band re-formed the Jazzateers in 1985 along with guitarist Mick Slaven

Mick Slaven

Michael Slaven is a session guitarist and record producer from Glasgow, Scotland.A former gardener at the University of Glasgow, Slaven became the guitarist for Bourgie Bourgie in the 1980s, and was briefly a member of Del Amitri...

, drummer Kenny McDonald, and singer Matthew Wilcox, releasing a 12-inch single that year. A collection of Jazzateers tracks was issued in 1997 by Marina Records.

Slaven went on to join Del Amitri, while Auld joined Fruits of Passion. Wilcox and Band, meanwhile, formed Wild Angels along with Stephen Lironi (formerly of Altered Images

Altered Images

Altered Images were an early 1980s Scottish New Wave / post-punk band. Led by lead singer Clare Grogan, the band branched into mainstream pop music, and had a string of chart hits between 1981 and 1983.-Early career:...

) and Douglas McIntyre (formerly of The Bathers

The Bathers

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).

Albums

• Jazzateers (1983), Rough Trade
  Rough Trade Records
  Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...
  
   - UK Indie #14
• I Shot the President (1997), Marina

Singles

• "Show Me the Door" (1983), Rough Trade - UK Indie #35
• "Pressing On" (1985), Stampede
• "Here Comes That Feeling" (1997), Marina

Compilation appearances

• Clear Cut 5 (1983), Japan/Rough Trade: "Once More With Feeling"
• Clear Cut Final (1986), Japan Record: "Sixteen Reasons"
• Fruitcakes And Furry Collars (1986), Record Mirror
  Record Mirror
  Record Mirror was a British weekly pop music newspaper, founded by Isadore Green and featured, news articles, interviews, record charts, record reviews, concert reviews, letters from readers and photographs. The paper became respected by both mainstream pop music fans and serious record collectors...
  
  : "Pressing On"
• New Voices Vol. 14 (1997), Rolling Stone: "Here Comes That Feeling"
• Bentboutique: Chasing The Chimera (2000), Creeping Bent
  Creeping bent
  Creeping Bent can be:*Agrostis stolonifera, a species of bentgrass.*Creeping Bent , a record label based in Glasgow, Scotland....
  
  : "Heartbeat"
• Ave Marina (2004), Marina: "Here Comes That Feeling"
• Messthetics #105 (2008), Hyped 2 Death: "Blue Moon Over Hawaii"
• Park Lane Archives (2009), Jungle: "Sixteen Reasons"