by Jason AnkenyBest remembered for their 1978 hit Drivers Seat, London-based New Wave combo Sniff n the Tears emerged from the remnants of the little-known Ashes of Moon, which disbanded in 1974 after failing to stir up much label interest. The individual members of the band scattered during the mid-1970s, with frontman Paul Roberts turning his attention to painting; however, following the ascendance of the New Wave, drummer Luigi Salvoni convinced Roberts to reform the group with guitarists Mick Dyche and Laurence Netto, bassist Nick South and keyboardist Keith Miller, and in 1978 the newly-christened Sniff n the Tears began shopping its demo. Chiswick signed the band and issued its debut album Fickle Heart that summer, with the single Drivers Seat becoming a major hit in the U.S. The Games Up appeared in 1980, but failed to make much of a commercial impact; when 1981s Love Action and the following years Ride Blue Divide met a similar fate, Sniff n the Tears disbanded.