Formed in Aberdeen in 1983, the band were initially a quartet of Jim Shepherd (guitar/vocals), Adam Sanderson (vocals/guitar), Martin Keena (bass guitar), and Tom Reid (drums/vocals).
After sending a demo tape to Melody Maker, the band were recruited by Alan McGee to record for the fledgling Creation label.
Prior to recording, Sanderson had been listening to the Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch EP, and repeated the two note refrain from "Boredom" at the end of "Think!".
Jasmine Minks records were played on national radio, and the band began to attract a good reputation as a live act.
McGee gave them over £400 to record a six track mini-album, One Two Three Four Five Six Seven, All Good Preachers Go To Heaven (1984, Creation) and some major labels showed an interest in the band, to the extent of booking them sessions in very expensive studios.
It sat on a shelf while McGee was forced to pursue other interests, eventually surfacing as a seven-inch single of "What’s Happening"/"Black & Blue", which was largely ignored by the music press.
The idea had been to record a low budget, high quality song based album, but McGee did not like the finished result and dropped some tracks.
The Popartglory album track Daddy Dog, featuring Scottish Socialist politician Tommy Sheridan as vocalist, was released as the only Jasmine Minks single on the Poptones label.
Their BBC Radio 1 sessions from 1986 for John Peel and Janice Long have been released in 2021 as double 7" singles on the new reissue label Precious Recordings of London.