Category: The Exile

Here’s another lot of whom I knew nothing until their inclusion on the Big Gold Dreams box set.

Coming straight out of Bishopbriggs, The Exile were the sound of the (Glasgow) suburbs. 

Formed by Graham Scott, who cut his musical teethin pre-punk rockers Free Flight before The Exile’s school tie and leather jacketed quartet released the four-track ‘Don’t Tax Me EP’ on their own Boring Records.

As well as ‘Hooked On You”s slice of scratchy would-be power pop, the record featured ‘Fascist DJ’ about Radio Clyde’s Tom Ferrie who had helped spearhead Glasgow’s ‘ban’ on punk gigs.  The Exile had fallen foul of the ban by way of a cancelled show with The Jolt, Johnny & The Self Abusers and The Cuban Heels.  There followed a one-off single on Charly Records and an appearance of their track ‘Disaster Movie’ on Beggar Banquet’s compilation, ‘Streets’, before The Exile morphed into the Television-inspired Friction, fizzling out after another single on Boring.

mp3: The Exile – Hooked On You

If I had been serving on a Jukebox Jury back in 1977, I’m afraid I’d have called this out as a miss.

JC