Member Since: 11/04/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/exiles1988
Band Members: Phil: vocals, bass
Chris: rhythm guitar
Simon: lead guitar
Tef: drums
Influences:
"I shall fight so that
failure is possible."
- Lemmy Caution,
Alphaville, Godard
"The future is unwritten."
- Joe Strummer
"Language is much closer to film than painting is."
- Sergei Eisenstein
"The ability to churn out self-acclaim for unspeakable atrocities is highly regarded, virtually an entry ticket to the ranks of the respectÂable intellectual culture."
Rethinking Camelot
by Noam Chomsky
“I've met the man in the street. He's a cunt.â€
- Sid Vicious
"As for the bourgeois state, we are seeking to overcome it, to overthrow it." - Salvador Allende
"I think governments are the cancer of civilization."
- Chuck D
Up They Rise: The
Incomplete Works Of
Jamie Reid
A "Michael Special"
aka "a savoury 99", or simply "a cup of beans"
"They fuck you up,
your mum and dad.
They may not mean to,
but they do.
They fill you with
the faults they had
And add some extra,
just for you..."
This Be The Verse
by Philip Larkin
"Are my poems spoken in the factories and fields / In the streets o' the toon? / Gin they're no', then I'm failin' to dae / What I ocht to ha' dune."
Second Hymn to Lenin
by Hugh MacDiarmid
Record Label: Matchbox Classics
Type of Label: Indie