Zoom Records was a short-lived record label established
in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded and funded by the successful ‘Bruce’s’
record shop owner Bruce Findlay in the summer of 1977. After the first four
single releases it secured a licensing deal with Arista Records. Findlay closed
the label in 1980, to dedicate his time to managing one of the most successful
bands who began there, Simple Minds. Zoom signed many Scottish punk and new
wave bands, some of them, later well-known and successful, like Simple Minds,
who Findlay managed from 1978 to 1990. However, one of the first bands signed
was Edinburgh pub Punk band, The Valves; the second band to sign was PVC2 (who
featured Russel Webb and Midge Ure). Skids almost joined the label, but Findlay
encouraged them to go to their local Dunfermline record shop owner, Sandy Muir,
out of which No Bad Records was formed.
The first single released by Zoom was "Robot
Love" (with "For Adolf’s Only" as the B-side), by The Valves, in
August 1977, selling 15,000 copies.