For a short period of time in the mid 1980s BOB's House of Teeth stood unoccupied as the band released their work via Sombrero Records.

The label's lifespan was all too short, but alongside releases by The Siddeleys and Reserve stood two singles and a compilation album. These were BOB's first releases in a vinyl format that couldn't easily be bent or folded, and featured the first four-piece line-up of Richard Blackborow, Simon Armstrong, Jem Morris and Garry Connors.​

 

The first single released was 'What A Performance', whose 12" version came with an extended version entitled 'Worra Performance'. this was swiftly followed up by the release of 'Kirsty', a track which had become world famous thanks to its appearance in the band's first Peel Session. Both these singles were compiled on an album entitled 'Swag Sack' alongside two tracks from BOB's flexidisc debut, and two tracks intended to appear on an as-yet-unnamed third single. Of these two, 'Smelly Summer' became a Sombrero rarity, failing as it did to make the third single ultimately released by BOB on House of Teeth. ('Convenience', that would be: it became quite popular in some circles...)



 

The sleeve notes from 'Swag Sack' outlined the story of their liaison with Sombrero thus:

 

 

 

"Ardent nightclubbers BOB danced til dawn in numerous Soho dives and it was here, in the infamous 'Different Kitchen' that they were to meet their record company to be...Garry Conners left the group in January 1988, shortly after they had recorded their first session for Radio One's John Peel Show' but was replaced by Dean Leggett just in time for a swift return to the BBC studios, this time to record a session for Simon Mayo. Now a familiar name with the nation's youth BOB toured Britain extensively during 1988. As BOB t-shirts became the years essential fashion item the group released their second single."

 

 



​Sombrero discography:

Sombrero one: What A Performance/Piggery/Deary Me/Memory Of A Free Lunch/Worra Performance (12")



Sombrero two: Kirsty/The Hippy Goes Fishing/Banwell Blues No.2/Times Like These (12")



Sombrero five: Swag Sack - Kirsty/Piggery/Smelly Summer/Prune/Deary Me/The Hippy Goes Fishing/What A Performance/Times Like These/Memory Of A Free Lunch/Groove/Banwell Blues No.2/So Far, So Good (LP)