It will be exactly twenty-five years ago this Summer since The Rezillos made their debut alongside Siouxsie and the Banshees on Top of the Pops in 1978, performing their alternative offering of the theme tune. Having formed two years earlier at Edinburgh College of Art, through a shared love of Sixties Garage Rock and the Spectoresque Girl Group glam of The Ronettes and the Shangri Las, The Rezillos found themselves inadvertently caught up in the
Punk movement, if only because the didn't proscribe to fifteen minute slabs of tedious progressive rock, shunning it in favour of three minute sparkling pop gems which would eventually be fully realised as the bona-fide classic singles Can't Stand My Baby, (I Love My Baby cos She Does) Good Sculptures, Top of the Pops and Destination Venus. They caught the attention of Sire Records boss Seymour Stein, the man who signed Madonna, and before long were the only British band on his label, in such esteemed company as The Ramones, Talking Heads and Richard Hell and The Voidoids. Endless touring with the Ramones and The Undertones, and one classic pure punk pop album, Can't Stand The Rezillos, finally signalled the end of their brief career. It was barely1979.

The band reformed for a one-off gig at Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations in 2001, but rave reviews from a visiting critic from The New York Times persuaded them to stick around just long enough for a twelve-date tour of the US. Strangely enough, although signed to an American label, and having recorded their debut in New York City, the band had played only the one gig, at the infamous CBGBs, in the USA. The twelve dates went down a storm; the band were invited back to do a larger tour; they played a festival in Norway to a sell-out crowd and four fans from the good old days landed on the festival sight in a helicopter. They played exceptional sell-out shows in Spain and France earlier this year and won over a new generation of fans in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, most of whom weren't even born when the group originally disbanded. Their UK shows, again including the sell-out Mean Fiddler show in London, have re-established them as one of the most exciting bands currently on display, with a verve and energy that puts many bands half their age to shame. On 28th March, the long-awaited cult-movie, Jackass: The Movie was finally released in the UK. At that point it had grossed $66 million in the US. The Rezillos classic foot stomper Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight is in the soundtrack, and resulted in them appearing in no less than five US publications on the same day on the first week of it's US release.

Plans are afoot for further visits to the US in near future following the groups first record release of the 21st century, a compilation of Vintage and Modern Radio Session material; "The Rezillos Radio Times". With the world at large now 'opening up' thanks to current communications technology, in particular 'The Internet' & 'World Wide Web', interest in the band and requests for them to perform have been steadily coming in from all corners of the earth, as far apart as The Republic of Ireland to The Philippines, and everywhere inbetween. With the likelihood of new recordings to promote, the possibilities become endless! The principal objectives that The Rezillos would like to achieve in the new year is to record and release an album and 'singles' of their new material, and to get onto the summer 'Festival' circuit. And of course generally continue to 'Rock their market share of the Planet'.  Fingers Crossed!