Zones were the short-lived band the even shorter-lived PVC2 became when frontman Midge Ure buggered off to join Rich Kids. Which is also to say they were also once teenybop band Slik.

You can hear both punk and pop elements in their debut single Stuck With You.

Released in February 1978, it really should have been a hit. It starts off like a cross between the Pistols and the Damned (specifically, a fusion of God Save The Queen and New Rose).

By the end it’s a catchy powerpop anthem that’ll have you singing joyfully along.

It’s great, and it’s a formula ought to have turned Zones into pop stars (again). Instead they broke up a year later without a hit to their name.

Perhaps it was down to the lack of charisma displayed by Midge’s replacement as singer and guitarist, Alex Harvey’s cousin Willie Gardner.

Or perhaps it was just bad timing, proving too poppy for punks and too punky for pop fans.

Whatever it was, despite two Peel sessions, no one was much interested in their album Under Influence when it came out in 1979 on Arista, who had bought Zoom Records, the indie label that released Stuck With You.

After their demise, bassist Russell Webb and drummer Kenny Hyslop joined The Skids, before Hyslop moved on up to the waterfront with Simple Minds.

Meanwhile, Gardner teamed up with Simple Minds’ original drummer, Brian McGee, in Endgames and keyboard player Billy McIsaac studied piano at Glasgow’s Royal Academy of Music before forming a wedding band.

And that, pretty much, is that. Except that Mourning Star, a 1979 single by Zones, turned up three years later in a thinly disguised new version called Hymn by Midge’s next band, Ultravox.

Which is surely just a coincidence. Right?