The Exile FULL EPs 1977 1978 Punk Rock

0:00 - Jubilee 77 3:02 - Hooked On You 5:51 - Fascist DJ 7:54 - Windmill 11:40 - The Real People 13:26 - Tomorrow Today 15:36 - Disaster Movie From Punky Gibbon: Great little band with just three releases to their name, The Exile were trailblazers who set up Scotland’s first punk cub (Gigi’s Disco) with proceeds from their terrific low-budget Don’t Tax Me EP, recorded and mixed in three hours flat and released at the height of the punk wave in a typically cheapo tissue paper sleeve. The photo on the front exposes them as not being very punky looking: two are making a decent fist of trying to look the part (one is wearing a school blazer and one seems to be trying to sneer) but the other two have grungey shoulder length hair and one even has a ’tashe. Mind you, that’s how punk was away from the big cities: a working class movement with no expensive boutiques for miles around and no cash either. They were next heard on the awesome Streets compilation, with a super-catchy scrabbler of a song called ’Disastermovie’ [included here], which ended up on the B-Side of their third and final vinyl outpouring, The Real People 7“, recorded in October ’77 but not released until January 1978. The band struggled through to Autumn 1978, by which time bassist Kirk had been replaced twice, firstly by Paul Armour (ex-Cuban Heels) and then by Gavin Paterson. After the band band split, Scott, Workman and Burns fort med Friction.