Hailing from Fleet in Hampshire in September ‘86, Jim Jiminee made catchy jangly guitar pop songs that are still popular today. They bounced into the indie top 20 with their first single ‘Do It On Thursday’ with a showing on ITV’s Saturday Morning TV Chat show which led to majors tours of the UK and Europe.
Over the next year they promoted their album and released a second single ‘Town & Country Blues’ which again the video was shown on the Chart Show and a BBC Radio Session.
Their next release was a track not featured on the album, ‘I Wanna Work’ which was followed by another UK during in early ‘89.
After the departure of Delphi left the band as 4 piece to carry on with recording the second album, ‘The Thatcher Years’ including the infectious lost classic single ‘Impetuous Girl’. Unfortunately, the steam went out of the band and in late ’89 they decided to call it a day and the album remained in the vaults until it was issued in 2000.
In 1999 saw Japanese label Vinyl Japan reissue the debut album ‘Welcome to Hawaii’ which surprised everyone to appear in their end of year top selling albums. This led to Vinyl Japan releasing their unreleased second album ‘The Thatcher Years’ and a compilation of singles, bsides and radio sessions, ‘Town & Country Blues’.
Of the original 5 members, 3 went on to form 'The Deep Season' and signing to Sony releasing 2 EP’s and an Album. Over the years they have featured/guested with a cornucopia of bands and artists including Arnold, The Sundays, Robyn Hitchcock, and The Audience.
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