The Blue Mist (sometimes just Blue Mist) was the sapling that grew into a large family tree of Huntingdon and Peterborough area bands. Rooted in an Alconbury Junior School band called The Vikings, the trunk grew up through Zenith, Only On A Sunday, Boys'll Be Boys, Alice Bare and Curb.

The Blue Mist made a big impact when they played a concert organised by Dale Cox at Sawtry Village College, supporting Mithrandir and the college's heavy metal covers band Butterfly Stew. In contrast they had a guitar pop sound, including several 1960s hits in their set.

The Blue Mist comprised (left to right, standing) Mark Treadwell (lead guitar), Adrian Radwell (rhythm), Adrian Paice (drums), and, kneeling, Robert Alexander (bass). Radwell, who designed and built his own RAD electric guitar, wrote their music. They invited classmates to write lyrics: "Rozanna", a love song by Jayne Moate, and the enigmatically ghostly "The Missing End" by Adrian Ward were chosen for their New Leaf single (SVC 1691).

The record was produced by Dave Colton at Stix Studio, Peterborough, in early 1983 and was manufactured by SRT of St Ives, Cambridgeshire. Exactly 1,000 were made. It sold rapidly, especially locally but also in Scotland where the single received considerable airplay, largely thanks to the Independent Labels Association. In 1984 The Blue Mist launched the Molesworth label with "Elijah (What Have We Done?)"/"It's Only Make Believe".