If only the poor bastard had had a set of cheekbones. They would have been bigger than Joy Division. It would have been a case of Uwho?
Brilliant clip of The Sound from The Old Grey Whistle Test. Don't know the year, but the songs off their second album, 'From The Lions Mouth', that dates from 1981.
I still think that '81 was the best year for music . . .still think the late Adrian Borland is the spitting image of Christopher Hitchens.
Via the Brittle Heaven website, and conclusive proof that Tony Parsons was always an arsehole:
“One to Infinity” - Review
"Tuneless, gormless, gutless. An Anglo middle-class version of Blue Oyster Cult’s rivet-punching guitar solos and protentious visions. The Outsiders are obese midgets who wear bicycle clips on their flairs (sic) because they think it makes them look punky. I like them a lot. It takes real punks to make a record like this."
by Tony Parsons
(NME November 26, 1977)
From reading the early reviews on the website, it looks like The Outsiders were considered the Keane of their day . . . and were hated accordingly.
