who remembers "chicken outlaw" by wide boy awake

[retrophil]

i already have it, i just wanna see how many people knowit.if you dont know it, its a cool new wave tune from the 80s. i think they sort of sound like dexys midnight runners

[hexicon]

Many fond memories of that silly song! [:D] Dancing like an idiot at my friend's house, drunk on lemonade & vodka.

[Warzau]

I do it got on my nerves the first time, but then grew on me. I actually have it in MP3 format.

[KYYX4ever]

Heh,
I do remember that--silly song. Infectious, too.

[siouxmoux]

This is old song when i dicovered it by digging around in deep in mp3 music folders late one night. Did wide boy awake had any other hits and or albubms.

[scramjet]

I have it on one of those cheap "New Wave Hits" compilations. Extremely catchy in a slightly annoying kind of way. I like it though.

[rewind]

Wide Boy Awake didn't have a full length album but did release an EP in the US. The band was fronted by ex-Ant (he was only on the Kings Of The Wild Frontier album) Kevin Mooney.

The b-side of "Chicken Outlaw" was actually the bigger hit, "Slang Teacher," available on several compilations.

[MartiniHoudini]

That's a great song. Actually, their only release, which was an E.P., was also very good. It's a shame they didn't put out a full-length album. But I read an interview with Kevin Mooney in which he mentioned that their record label (I think it was CBS) was intent on "grooming" them, so the band basically said "Ba-bye" and of course were never heard from again.