Stiff Little Fingers @ C2, Brighton On Thurs 20th March
Published 26th Feb 2003 by Alison@c2

Thursday 20th March Stiff Little Fingers. A welcome return for Jake Burns & co. Although the guys now focus on their new material, you're promised the old favorites like "Alternative Ulster" & "Suspect Device". Greet the old songs like old friends ! 8pm. ?10.

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STIFF LITTLE FINGERS
Biography

Jake Burns formed Stiff Little Fingers (the band?s name was taken from a 1977 Vibrators lyric "If it wasn?t for your stiff little fingers nobody would know you were dead"?). In 1978 after seeing the Clash play in his hometown Belfast, and the band released the classic Suspect Device and Alternative Ulster singles that year. Exactly twenty years on from becoming the first band ever to hit the UK top 20 album charts on an independent label ? with their 1979 debut Inflammable Material.

Stiff Little Fingers along with the likes of the Clash, Sex Pistols, Jam, Skids, Buzzcocks, Undertones, Sham 69, Stranglers et al ? were at the forefront of the punk movement. They enjoyed six years as one of the biggest ticket draws in the UK and recorded three more studio albums ? Nobody?s Heroes (1980), Go For It (1982) and Now Then (1982) ? before Jake Burns took a sabbatical to work as a BBC Radio One Producer.

SLF reformed in 1987 and booked a huge reunion tour in 1988, including two sold out Brixton Academy gigs, which persuaded Jake to make the reunion permanent.
When original bassist Ali Mc Mordie bowed out in 1990, just as SLF were about to tour Japan, former Jam bassist Bruce Foxton, jumped in at the last moment and has been in the band ever since, playing on the group?s subsequent three studio albums Flags and Emblems (1991), Get a life (1994) and Tinderbox (1997). (This last has just been re-released by EMI).

Recently bands such as Therapy, Bad Religion, Sugar and Rancid have cited Stiff Little Fingers as a major influence, and this has stimulated interest from new fan?s in all walks of rock life, and Hope Street (EMI 1999), won over yet more new fans with its upbeat, uplifting collection of rock anthems for the millennium.
The year 2000 saw SLF undertake their first ever tour of South America with shows in Argentina & Brazil and release a live video/CD document of the "Hope Street" tour entitled: "Handheld & Rigidly Digital". This proved so popular with fans that it is about to receive its DVD release in the New Year through Secret Records. (Expect this around March 2003).

This year saw SLF celebrate their 25th Anniversary in the music business. They played sold out shows in Ireland, the U.K. and America as part of this celebration.

2003 will also see the release of a brand new studio album which the band are finishing writing at the moment. This will be on EMI Records and should be available late summer/early autumn. As always the band will be undertaking as many live engagements as possible leading up to & after this release as it is still the part of the job they enjoy most: Playing for the people.

Check out web-site: www.slf.com

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