In 1987, Burns reformed the band with McMordie, Cluney and Taylor. When McMordie left in 1990, he was replaced on bass by Bruce Foxton, previously of The Jam, though McMordie rejoined in 2006. The current incarnation of SLF, which still tours, includes Burns, bassist Ali McMordie, guitarist Ian McCallum and drummer Steve Grantley. Belfast’s Stiff Little Fingers began as four exciting (if narrow-minded) sloganeers, led by raw-voiced singer/guitarist Jake Burns. SLF’s debut (the Rough Trade label’s first LP release) includes such classic protest punk as “Suspect Device,”“Alternative Ulster” and “Wasted Life.” The LP is generally regarded as a classic punk LP; its UK chart success was the spark that set off a second wave of new bands like the Ruts and Undertones.

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Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD2\06 - Bloody Dub.wav Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD1\04 - Wasted Life.wavTo attend a Stiff Little Fingers live show is to witness first hand the potent reaction as band meet audience, resulting in pogo-pyrotechnics that are as vigorous now as at any time during their career. This is not a “take it or leave it” band; this is a band that has forged an undying bond with their fiercely loyal following which seems to grow ever deeper as the years go by. Ogilvie further encouraged SLF to play material based upon their experience of the Troubles. He asked the group to look at some lyrics he had drafted. They liked the lyrics and " Suspect Device" became a fixture in their live set. Around the same time as putting a tune to the "Suspect Device" lyrics, Burns wrote "Wasted Life". Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD2\07 - Doesn't Make It All Right.wav

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Talking "Alternative Ulster" With Stiff Little Fingers' Jake Burns". Noisey. 15 November 2017 . Retrieved 10 May 2018. In all of the squalor of war and hate a little bit of love at the centre of conflict will relieve the stress for young love. Love in despair is the remedy in this rare love song. Probably their most poppier song as the sandpaper vocals are rested in most of barbed wire love. Vocal barber shop harmonies are prominent in the chorus of the song. A nice use of the drums especally the snare with the added resonance which compliments the structure of the recording. There is a nice clapping ingredient in this love song that adds to the catchyness of this harshless melody. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD1\08 - Breakout.wav Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD5\11 - Is That What You Fought The War For.wav In 1994, they released Get a Life in the UK, releasing it in the US in 1996. By the end of 1996 Taylor left due to family commitments. Burns called in Steve Grantley who had played drums for Jake Burns and the Big Wheel in the late 1980s.Best punk album ever. Despite The Clash, to whom I have a psychotic teenage emotional attachment, being my personal crown princes of punk for the long time, the Lost Years, when Inflammable Material was absent from my heart; despite really stylishly snobby punk purists insisting that real punk was only made between three-sixteen and a quarter to four on an overcast Thursday afternoon in 1977, thus categorising Inflammable Material as post-punk; and despite the only punk thing to claim under the circumstances being that Sandinista!'s triple-album pig-headedness is the best punk album ever, or, if someone out-punks you and claims that before you can, that something secretly iconoclastic by Abba is, actually, Inflammable Material is the best punk album ever. Burns put a tune to the lyrics and "Suspect Device" was born. [2] Footage of the group performing "Suspect Device" at Belfast's Pound Club on 17 January 1978 - the first time the group played the song live - appeared on an Ulster TV programme It Makes You Want to Spit about the emergence of punk in Belfast. [1] [3] On 23 January 2006, it was announced that original bass guitarist Ali McMordie was to rejoin the band for the duration of their upcoming March tour. The tour was a success, with many fans writing into SLF's message board saying how much they enjoyed it, and how fired up the band seemed to be. After much discussion regarding the status of McMordie within the band after the tour, on 21 April 2006, Burns posted on the message board "For the time being Mr. McMordie is happy to continue as long as his busy schedule allows. It may be that occasionally we have to bring on a "substitute", if he is up to his eyes and we need to do something, but hopefully we can avoid that." Mr. McMordie has occasionally been unable to tour due to other commitments and on those occasions, his place has been taken by Mark DeRosa of Chicago band, Dummy. [ citation needed]

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I’ve actually written two and I’ve got a load of ideas so we are gearing up to write another album, assuming that they’re all half decent. The reissue includes the first part of an interview of Jake Burns by Alan Parker (the second part is included in the reissue of Nobody's Heroes). The end song of many songs on side 1; 8 in all is a thought provoking discharge of dropping out of society. The troubles are too much for one to bear so what can one do? Powerful guitar punchy chord shapes emphasis from despair to where! This guy is leader if i can breakaway so can you! Nihilism is the word, if you can win you win if you loose you loose. He dont care if he is on the dole or not, no worries because life in the Irish province is really very worrying indeed.After a proposed contract with Island Records fell through, the band signed with Rough Trade. Following the release of the second single " Alternative Ulster" in October 1978, "Suspect Device" was re-released on Rough Trade on 17 March 1979. [4] Moving to London in 1979, the band lost Brian Faloon who was replaced on drums by Jim Reilly. They recorded the LP "Nobody's Heroes" for Chrysalis, an LP which was more pop than "Inflammable Material" but continued exploring similar themes. A cover of The Specials'"Doesn't Make It Alright" was included, though less successfully than "Johnny Was". "Nobody's Heroes" was followed by the live LP "Hanx" as well as the pure power pop of the LPs "Go For It" and "Now Then" (featuring new drummer Dolphin Taylor, previously of Tom Robinson Band), which failed to satisfy their fans. In 1983 the band decided to call it a day. ABOUT USLouder Than War is a music, culture and media publication headed by The Membranes & Goldblade frontman John Robb. Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net. At the Edge" (B-side: "Running Bear (live)" and "White Christmas (live)"), 9 February 1980, (UK No.15) [29] 7"