SATURDAY’S SCOTTISH SONG : #377: THE WILD INDIANS

mp3: The Wild Indians – Penniless

The Wild Indians featured previously back on 5 March 2020 thanks to me loving the song of theirs that had been included on the Big Gold Dreams boxset.   Here’s the blurb for the booklet within the boxset.

The duo of vocalist Fiona Carlin and guitarist Kevin Low made two singles as The Wild Indians, on which Pop Wallpaper’s rhythm section of bassist Myles Raymond and drummer Les Cook played. The second, a 12” made up of three tracks of designer pop, was produced by John McVay of Visitors and engineered by Chic Medley of Perth-based electro-pop band Fiction Factory, with whom Carlin would sing with on their second album track, Victor Victorious. As a designer, Low’s work went on to grace many a record sleeve, including ones for The Delmontes and The Blue Nile. Low worked as a theatre photographer for many years, and is now a painter of note.

I added these thoughts back then.

“Beyond this, it is quite hard to track down any further info – they are one of the few Scottish bands from the era who don’t get listed in The Great Scots Musicography by Martin C Strong, published in 2002, and to which I have turned on many an occasion to fact-check/confirm or indeed get the basics!

Looking at Discogs, it seems that Penniless was the band’s second and final single,  on 12″ only, released in 1986 on Rosebud Records.   The only other single seemingly released on the label was Strawberry Letter 23 by Pop Wallpaper, which featured as Part 249 of this series back in March 2021.

The debut single by The Wild Indians was Love Of My Life, again as a 12″ only and released on the Hullabaloo! label in 1984.  As this appears to be the only single from that label on Discogs, it may well have been set up specifically for the purposes of that particular single.

Short of paying a minimum of £20 for either single on Discogs, I’ve not been able to find any way of getting more Wild Indians songs to share with you.  Sorry.

JC