Just found out about this British band from the Youtube channel by stoneeyedkiller. What’s surprising is that this band actually put a record out. And I was never aware of its existence.

Yeah, The Outsiders released a 7″ in 1989 according to Discogs. It came out on Redd Records which may have been the band’s own label, a self-release. The 7″ had two songs, “Handfuls of Nothing (Give me Lots & Lots of Money)” on the A side and “Love You to Death” on the B side.

The artwork on the sleeve shows photos of each of the four members of the band but sadly we don’t get the names of them.

45cat lists another record by The Outsiders. Is it the same band? Timewise it could be. This second 7″ would be actually the first, released in 1988 on Mundane Music (MM 0004). Two songs are included in it, “The Northern Queen” on the A side and “The Great Depression” on the B side. On this record the songs are credited to Tom Martin who also produced both tracks.

If it is the same band, they would have hailed from Birmingham and we know they at least played gigst at The New Breedon Bar (July 31 1988) and also at the Junction Harbourne (Oct. 27 1988).

But these are not all the songs the band recorded. On Youtube there’s a bunch of them. Sadly there is no information about them. Also none of the 1988 songs are uploaded here so you see why I have my doubts.

The songs uploaded are “Boxing Clever”, “Rain”, “That Girl”, “Pocketful of Sorrow”, “Scarlet”, “Tinsel Town”, “Handfuls of Nothing”, “Bordello”, “Stephen”, “Satellite Evangelist”, “Burning Sun”, “Stone on Stone” and “Particularly”

Sadly that seems to be all the info I could find about them. They’ve put their music on many digital platforms but they haven’t added any details. Would be good to know at least who were the members, right?

So yeah, I hope you can give me a hand finding more info about The Outsiders!

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Listen
The Outsiders – Pocketful of Sorrow