It released "Just Another Teenage Rebel" in November 1978, which saw the band receiving airplay on national radio from John Peel.
Shortly before the album was released, Greg Cowan was involved in a serious car crash that left him in traction for fourteen weeks and unable to play bass, so Gordy Blair (of another Belfast band, Rudi) joined, with Raymond Falls also joining on drums, because, according to Cowan, "Colin was such a bad drummer".
[1] Trouble followed the band around and led to their being sacked from Good Vibrations, so their next release was on their own GBH label in 1981, the "Magnum Force" single.
In 1982 they released a cover of The Glitter Band's "Angel Face", which spent over two months in the UK Indie Chart, peaking at number 21.
[1] Greg Cowan returned in 2003 with an "Irish punk supergroup" along with members of Rudi and Stalag 17, performing at the book launch of It Makes You Want to Spit!, which is still going as Shame Academy.
They said "We’re sad to announce that Petsey’s hanging up his guns as Outcasts guitarist …but so happy to welcome Buck Defect as permanent replacement !!!!