Pacing the floor at Punk’s birth in the Seventies, splitting up as it was overtaken by Ska and New Romantics in the Eighties, and re-forming due to European bootleg interest in their back catalogue in the Noughties, Glasgow’s socio-politico-proto punk band The Zips, are keen to make up for lost time. With 5 new cd eps on their own Tenement Toons label, a download single for Oxfam’s Make Poverty History campaign, and tracks on numerous compilation cds, including Bored Teenagers Vol2. The Zips finally released their debut album, Guitars4Hire, Sept 2006 – 27 years after their debut single! Copies of that single, The Zips ep, which received extensive airplay on the late-great John Peel Show, have fetched high prices on eBay, and it was listed as number 37 in the top 100 most collectable punk records, of all time, in Record Collector. On the back of that accolade, it was re-issued in 2009, in the original 7” vinyl format, by Brooklyn-based label, Sing Sing Records. In 2011, The Zips unleashed their second album, 19 Forevva. The12 songs range from a dig at fashion guru, Henry Holland for apparently nicking the sleeve design from The Zips ep, to one based around quotes from, Henry Rollins, Jonathan Ross and Don Letts about former-Eater, Andy Blade’s book, The Secret Life of a Teenage Punk Rocker, via the anti-war trilogy of, Angerland, Stop The War, and (Straight To) Helmand. On the 10th anniversary, of Joe Strummer’s death, the band released a download-only, single, Road To Strummerville, with profits to Strummerville. It is available on cdbaby. No strangers to local and internet radio, the band also have a reputation for rip-roaring stage performances, supporting bands like, Dr Feelgood, UK Subs, 999, The Lurkers, Vic Godard & Subway Sect, Eddie & The Hot Rods. This means they are always in demand on the live circuit, including the Rebellion Festival in Blackpool, which resulted in their first-ever European dates in Amsterdam,and The Hague, closely followed by Dublin, Berlin, Potsdam, Hamburg and Essen. Catch them at a gig near you, soon! 4 guyz3chordz2minutebuzzbombz1helluvanight - guaranteed! Jonzip (lead vox/rhythm gtr) + phil volume (bass gtr/vox) + fred-x (lead gtr/vox) + jimi (drums) ***STOP PRESS: 2014 will see release of a split album with Berlin’s, Erotic Devices, and dates in Berlin, Cologne, Leipzig and Essen.***