The Jolt were a Scottish band formed in Wishaw, Scotland in September 1976.
[1] At the time, Robbie Collins and Jim Doak were clerks in the civil service and Iain Shedden was a music journalist for a local paper.
[1] They had known each other from their schooldays at Wishaw High School and had been thinking about forming a band since the beginning of 1975.
Paul Weller of The Jam became a big fan of the band, and the two bands often collaborated, with The Jolt opening for The Jam, and Weller even wrote a single for The Jolt, "See Saw", released in June 1979 on the EP Maybe Tonight.
[2] However, The Jolt were seen as poor copy of The Jam, always in their shadow, and the band split soon afterwards.