Saturday, January 24, 2009

THE OUTSIDERS (RAW EDGE RECORDS SINGLE)

I think this band was really underrated. I like their album allot too . Sad they didn't release more , but then again , I am a fan of the Sound as well . The Outsiders were a three piece band from South London and were name checked in Caroline Coon's book 1988 A Punk Rock Explosion. They played a couple of times at The Roxy, Vortex and the usual punk circuit.
Heavily influenced by the Velvet Underground and Iggy & The Stooges their music is a Heartbreakers type melodic punk .Raw Edge was their own label
Adrian Borland continued after The Outsiders with The Sound making quite a few records but again without success. Sadly Adrian took his own life in the end.
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REFERENCES - http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/outsiders.htm / http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=30700263
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RAW EDGE RECORDS 1977
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1. ONE TO INFINITY
2. NEW UNIFORM
3. CONSEQUENCES
4. FREEWAY
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***DOWNLOAD***

2 comments:

kaplan said...

let's not forget Second Layer mixing cold wave mood with beatbox punk...A kind of proto Big Black then...

Keep going yr great blog.

Frank Miller said...

Thanks for the comment Kaplan.