A small independent label, run by agency / management company Outlaw Artists. 'Music Week' of the 5th of May 1977 described the agency as 'newly formed' and said that it was run by Paul King, who formerly been with Good Earth (q.v.). Artists signed to the company included Motorhead, Japan, Stray, Nutz, Urchin and Strife. King was quoted as saying that he hoped that an independent label would be formed in the near future to handle unsigned acts. By that time however the first single on the Outlaw label had already been out for a couple of months: it was Strife's 'School' b/w 'Go' and 'Feel So Good' (OUT-001), which was manufactured by Phonodisc and issued in March via Virgin. It proved popular enough to be picked up by EMI and reissued on the EMI International label (INT-534; 7/77). The band, a heavy rock trio, had already made an album for Chrysalis, 'Rush' (CHR-1063) in 1978; the year after 'School' was released they were signed by the Gull label (q.v.) and put out a second album 'Back To Thunder' (GULP-102).
Despite King's hopes, Outlaw didn't develop as a record label; it seems to have concentrated on its main lines of business instead. It did eventually manage a second single, 'Outside Looking In' b/w 'Women In Love' by John Dark (JD-01), but that didn't surface until 1984. As well as being the second Outlaw record it appears to have been the last,
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.