SLF made my youth a better place to be. Every bus stop, every bottle of cider, every pair of martains, every bike jacket and every girlfriend. It was good being 15 years old.
I saw Stiff Little Fingers play twice when I was a student at the University of Leicester in the early 1980s. A very good live band; and their first two albums - particularly the first one - a great commentary on the 'Troubles' in Ireland at that time. 'Suspect Device', "Barbed Wire Love' and 'White Noise' are all great tracks - and really show the reality of growing up in Belfast at that time in 1978 when the album was released. I always preferred the band's second album 'Nobody's Heroes' - I think it's more melodic than the first - and there are great tracks like 'Gotta Getaway', 'At The Edge' and the cover of the Specials' 'It Doesn't Make It Alright'. Love the state-of-the-art barcode album cover - from 1980, too. The dawn of the digital age we all now inhabit in 2024 !
Man, i just love Jake's singing. It really feels like it's coming from the heart. In my opinion one of the best (if not the best) frontman of punk ever.
I first saw SLF in 1980 on a school trip to Poole Arts Centre, when school trips were school trips...it changed my life for sure... I just wish that I could sent my daughters on such an educational trip.
Back in 1980 my mate said you've gotta hear this track.. Johnny Was on Hanx was THE first Fingers song I ever heard. I bought the LP and it's still one of my fav albums today. Seen them a few times over the years in Boro, Manchester, Leeds, London, and twice at the legendary St Patrick's Day @The Barras in Glasgow. Still touring and still a great band today
First SLF gig I was at was in 1980, seem them many times since and grew up with their songs. As as kid in a mining town that I wanted to escape with a passion this was the song of my childhood. Hanx guys, you made a dark time better.
Seen them for the last 45 years .superb .Xslf with reilly and cluney called me on stage too sing alternative ulster,ended up doing 5 songs whilst he went too the bar.
Left N. Ireland in 1978 for Home Counties England as a 12 year old and discovered SLF as a teenager… a connection to my origins and the angst of a teenagers will always make this and inflammable material part of my history. Finally saw them in Stockholm and Edinburgh before COVID. Epic.
I remember the first time I heard SLF was when I heard a song playing when I arrived at a friends house, and was listening to it, thinking that I really liked this song.... but when it ended, I heard a crowd cheering, and then I realised.... this is an effing live recording!! Hanx.
Big influence to us punks here in N Ireland and one of many bands that influenced me to start my own punk band...Phobia [ see n.irelands a-z punk bands ☘️😎✅️🎸🏴
That’s the way it is. I was always a punk even before punk came along, I think there were lots of us just waiting for something to happen and then 1976 came along.
My godmother is Jake's sister. I've only just started getting into their music but I love it and the family connection makes it even more special!!!! I've never met Jake but I saw my god mother last week at a wedding and told her to tell him he was a legend!!!! My mum was one of their groupies and said they all used to eat sandwiches together backstage! i LMAO at that!!!!
An Old an Wise Tradesman introduced me to this band so long ago while doing my apprenticeship, he was also a drummer, they did cover's in the smallest shittiest Country pubs of SLF, great memories, no one had heard of them in Australia :) Such a Unique Sound
Saw them in brixtom academy,1990.brilliant.I was the skinhead in chino,s with tatts on neck as close to the stage as I could get,in amongst the troops,will never forget that night.thank you all. Tich from glenrotten,fide,Scotland.
Saw them twice in one year in the 2 hemispheres of the world in 2018. Brisbane Australia my home at the Triffid and Blackpool England at Rebellion. Soooo good.
what a song i was only kid when this was out my older brother got me into these and the clash the damned the pistols sham 69 etc this is music !!!!!!!!
Jake Burn's I saw you years ago and you I was overawed at sound of you. At the time listening to you live was like slipping a c'd in the car. Love a night crashed out listening to you on vinyl 🔥🔥👍👍
When I was in my twenty's I had a bug fort traveling to work and live in Europe s biggest cities gotta get away was always on my walkman head phones when I left my home town,I've been a slff fan since I was 10, they are absolutely world class
That is so awesome.....brings back so many happy memories of my youth. Love SLF, a really great live band with so many surprisingly good songs with top lyrics!! Saw them a few times as a teen in the 70s/80s. Cheers guys
@Finbarbarfin Never mind the Clash... Of course Jake talks about the clash being an influence BUT... Jake Burns was a big Black Sabbath fan so he must have combined some Sabbath influence into his music too..! Which is probably why I FECKIN LOVE Stiff Little Fingers... I was brought up on Sabbath, Queen, Rush, Thin Lizzy.....etc (I'm supposedly an old fart at 45..). I just seen SLF at Glasgow Barrowlands, again... And they still ROCK! SLF are a Classic Rock band in their own right!
Seen this band 3 times and they are one of the bands you'll no get bored with there rule punk and sing about the troubles of what happend in that Thatcher years but a still love them pure class and always will be played and never get bored with them there songs mean a lot for what happend in that era top class band to come out Ireland one of the best bands of that decade 💯 pure punk love them got all the album's love them
saw them 2 nites ago first time!! loved them since 84 they fn rocked !!!! all the money i wasted catching the stones ac dc and other over rated crap!!! phew!!! they were waaaay worth it oi!
What can I say? Most of the comments here pretty much sum it up so there is not that much point in me chiming in there because I can see we all love this and PUNKS NOT DEAD! All I will say is that you are a LEGEND for uploading this priceless page of the growing chronicle of punk rock, cemented in history. If our current generation had much more sense we would maybe see a new wave of punk, I guess that might be a possibility for the future. Who knows. "The future is Unwritten"- Joe Strummer "Go easy, step light, Stay Free..." - Mick Jones
"Gotta gotta gettaway, gotta gotta gettaway You know there ain't no street like home To make you feel so all alone Plenty of folk to tell you what to do But they don't speak the same language as you They wanna have me here Have me and hold me near Hold me down fasten and tie But the cars are all flashing me Bright lights are passing me I feel life passing me by The fuss is buzzing in my head My father argued and my mother begged It's not their words ain't tugging at me But gotta stretch them break them get myself free They wanna have me here Have me and hold me near Hold me down fasten and tie But the cars are all flashing me Bright lights are passing me I feel life passing me by Gotta gotta gettaway, gotta gotta gettaway I'm leaving home"
SLF made my youth a better place to be. Every bus stop, every bottle of cider, every pair of martains, every bike jacket and every girlfriend. It was good being 15 years old.
Fukk me, 54 years old and just bumped into this 8 years down the line. We get old quick.
You should write songs
Same here in Holland, 3 bands in a weekend, shit wanna be young
@@1098sdaz ditto...
Agree with that bloody great band.
when Jake was at his brilliant best,raw vocals,amazing guitar playing and lively on stage!
Irelands greatest band ever by a mile
Damn right
thin lizzy is up there
Thats a bold statement
@@charliecroker6445 Not really... They are right up there in the mix for the entire UK
I saw Stiff Little Fingers play twice when I was a student at the University of Leicester in the early 1980s. A very good live band; and their first two albums - particularly the first one - a great commentary on the 'Troubles' in Ireland at that time. 'Suspect Device', "Barbed Wire Love' and 'White Noise' are all great tracks - and really show the reality of growing up in Belfast at that time in 1978
when the album was released.
I always preferred the band's second album 'Nobody's Heroes' - I think it's more melodic than the first - and there are great tracks like 'Gotta Getaway',
'At The Edge' and the cover of the Specials' 'It Doesn't Make It Alright'. Love the state-of-the-art barcode album cover - from 1980, too. The dawn of the digital age we all now inhabit in 2024 !
Best band ever to come out of this country period. Saw them twice play live absolutely fabulous live band.
Always my best live band..Glasgow Apollo 1978/79..proud my son now going to see SLF in Barrowlands.
no no no not all these years later not for me mate let sleeping dogs lie ffs 🐕🐕🐆🐆🐩🐩🐩😎
The three greatest frontmen of all time are ,Paul Weller,Joe Strummer and Jake Burns. What a time to have been a teenager. We were so lucky.
Man, i just love Jake's singing. It really feels like it's coming from the heart. In my opinion one of the best (if not the best) frontman of punk ever.
ratatatata500
Your right Jake is up there with the best
100% . You don’t get many singers like Jake these days , gravel voice and believing in what he’s saying
Saw them last Nov 2021 un jakes singing is still tops
@@nikkielittlejohn8638 Saw them two nights ago, March, 2023. Jake's still got it.
It's hard to choose a favorite slf song because they are all equally brilliant
The Best Of SLF is about 4 hours long
Jim Reilly is an exceptional punk drummer. These lads are easily in Top 10 bands of the genre. Jake Burns voice was made for Punk.
Wish I was 17 again. SLF were my favourite band. Seen them many times live. Brilliant song.
Need a tardis don’t we. 😂
There still going ,I'm going to see them at the roundhouse next month for the 42nd time I can't wait
❤
I first saw SLF in 1980 on a school trip to Poole Arts Centre, when school trips were school trips...it changed my life for sure... I just wish that I could sent my daughters on such an educational trip.
Best Punk band Ever...Listen to Hanx album gotta be one of the best live albums ever produced
Best band ever, never mind best punk band!
Couldnt agree more. Classic album
@@ianatkinson5591 Wouldn’t go that far.
Back in 1980 my mate said you've gotta hear this track.. Johnny Was on Hanx was THE first Fingers song I ever heard. I bought the LP and it's still one of my fav albums today. Seen them a few times over the years in Boro, Manchester, Leeds, London, and twice at the legendary St Patrick's Day @The Barras in Glasgow. Still touring and still a great band today
Ever heard of Chelsea . Their debut album is class 👍👍
Those great days of punk rock..glad i was there..long live the 70s..long live rock and roll.!!
First SLF gig I was at was in 1980, seem them many times since and grew up with their songs. As as kid in a mining town that I wanted to escape with a passion this was the song of my childhood. Hanx guys, you made a dark time better.
what’s the name of them all ?
Every second kid in Ireland in the 80s loved the fingers..the best!
First and greatest band I ever saw live. Aged, 14, 1981 Bradford St. George's Hall
Me too, I was 3 years older.
And me too. 1978 I think. Supporting the Skids. They were superb
me too, st georges hall, 1980, ticket £2... life changing gig
I remember playing this song on guitar for my music assesment when I was 14. Great riff :)
Seen them for the last 45 years .superb .Xslf with reilly and cluney called me on stage too sing alternative ulster,ended up doing 5 songs whilst he went too the bar.
Best thing about SLF is the loveliness and braviness of their internet fans who really get it.
Left N. Ireland in 1978 for Home Counties England as a 12 year old and discovered SLF as a teenager… a connection to my origins and the angst of a teenagers will always make this and inflammable material part of my history. Finally saw them in Stockholm and Edinburgh before COVID. Epic.
Great song...Great band....AND the best live clip out there of the original band!!!
this is rare. love, raw anger, power and punk at its absolute best. this is music when its alive.
For forty something years that song has resonated,my personal favourite punk band,when I'm in the o.a.p home i will still wig out to this.
Im with you 100% mate.
Great live band. Saw them in Brum again last year still brilliant. HANX is my Favourite album 🤔 along with the Crack by the Ruts 😇.
this song makes me cry. dunno why. just does. love it. thanx.
Me too, youre not alone.
@@1098sdaz Thanks so much. 💓Means a lot. Wow.
@@stacyblue1980 Just gave me another throat stopper 2 years on.
Seen them again in’24! Bangin!
saw this lot in 77 and 78 still playing it loud in the car now!
SLF were ace. First punk band I saw live, think it was the Royal Court, Liverpool, 1981. Absolutely brilliant!
Hanx the greatest live album of all time so much passion
ah they're great. such guts. passion. saw them live in brighton in 1980. superb.
One of the best live bands in the world. since i was 10 now 53 still Punk and a outlaw.
what’s the name of these people.
@@summerbell3330 SLF Stiff Little Fingers from Northern Ireland Punk 79 originals.
@@delstrain8590 u knwo the names of them all
@@summerbell3330 Jake Burns the singer the line ups changed over decades. Google it.
@@delstrain8590 ok
Ace bassline, great song to get pissed and lose yourself to. Love this band.
I remember the first time I heard SLF was when I heard a song playing when I arrived at a friends house, and was listening to it, thinking that I really liked this song.... but when it ended, I heard a crowd cheering, and then I realised.... this is an effing live recording!!
Hanx.
Inflammable Material !!! we were listening tjis LP in Paris long time ago, great band! vive l'Irlande vive la France
"Beautiful!"
miss Seeing these Guys...SOOO FuuuuKING MUUUCHH!
~for my days living back in Chicago!!
Jimmy, YOU ARE My *NEW* BEST friend!!
Uh Oh!
One of the first basslines I learnt ...and created my own punk band at 14 🎉
Big influence to us punks here in N
Ireland and one of many bands that influenced me to start my own punk band...Phobia [ see n.irelands a-z punk bands ☘️😎✅️🎸🏴
My ex punk dads favorite band (he doesnt think hes ex punk) bit like an ex hippie is always a hippie at heart
That’s the way it is. I was always a punk even before punk came along, I think there were lots of us just waiting for something to happen and then 1976 came along.
I saw them last week, in Brasil. Fantastic !!!
Wow cool,I'm gonna see them soon
My godmother is Jake's sister. I've only just started getting into their music but I love it and the family connection makes it even more special!!!! I've never met Jake but I saw my god mother last week at a wedding and told her to tell him he was a legend!!!! My mum was one of their groupies and said they all used to eat sandwiches together backstage! i LMAO at that!!!!
Absolute bliss ; A cool vid of the most sincere punk band in the world, since the Clash split...
An Old an Wise Tradesman introduced me to this band so long ago while doing my apprenticeship, he was also a drummer, they did cover's in the smallest shittiest Country pubs of SLF, great memories, no one had heard of them in Australia :) Such a Unique Sound
Definitely the best line up of the band. And this is the speed that this should be played. Raw as fuck. See you up there 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Saw them in brixtom academy,1990.brilliant.I was the skinhead in chino,s with tatts on neck as close to the stage as I could get,in amongst the troops,will never forget that night.thank you all. Tich from glenrotten,fide,Scotland.
Those guitar tones 😍.
Jakes playing great and the tones courtesy of the never to be surpassed yamaha sg2000
That's what I call the truest punk of all times.
Saw them twice in one year in the 2 hemispheres of the world in 2018. Brisbane Australia my home at the Triffid and Blackpool England at Rebellion. Soooo good.
Brilliant sound quality, amazing song
Ali McMordie. One of the great bass players. Vital part of SLF. Hanx!
I met Ali in 1982 at Wembley conference centre before a jam gig. With I kept that autograph
"Beautiful!"
miss Seeing these Guys...SOOO FuuuuKING MUUUCHH!
~for my days living back in Chicago!!
Still kicking version, almost 40 years later sounds exactly the same
Better, if anything
Superb ....Jake Burns .....a voice like someone gargling glass.
Met Jake last night, awesome guy. Very nice and extremely humble.
That energy!!
Mighty mighty band
aw the peace gesture at the end
HANX is an absolutely brilliant album =) !
If it wasnae for these I would've had a great job, education and career, thank you SLF, I listened to my heart xxxx
what a song i was only kid when this was out my older brother got me into these and the clash the damned the pistols sham 69 etc this is music !!!!!!!!
the STRANGLERS wednesday 7/2/2018 ,, , 2 weeks later this brilliant band both live in Brisbane , you bloody ripper
absolutely the way i feel now great song great band been into these since 1986 x
Jake Burn's I saw you years ago and you I was overawed at sound of you. At the time listening to you live was like slipping a c'd in the car. Love a night crashed out listening to you on vinyl 🔥🔥👍👍
Most people have a windpipe. Jake has a drainpipe. I fucking loved the Fingers.
Great observation. Spot on!
Jakes words😳.... ..F-ing brilliant,so underrated....he probs like that,up there with the best of them for me 🙌
best punk rock !!!! tout une époque 1976 1980 !!!!!!
these guys made me survive...
Im with you on that.
When I was in my twenty's I had a bug fort traveling to work and live in Europe s biggest cities gotta get away was always on my walkman head phones when I left my home town,I've been a slff fan since I was 10, they are absolutely world class
Masterpiece ‼️🎸💥💥💥🤟
1978 Glasgow Apollo 🔥
Amazing! The good ol' days! Thanks!!
Heart flipping band. The best. No doubt
Cornmarket bandstand throwing bread baps back at the Hari Krishna's that had just given us them, music blaring. Belfast town centre mid 1980's.
I adore this band.
That is so awesome.....brings back so many happy memories of my youth. Love SLF, a really great live band with so many surprisingly good songs with top lyrics!! Saw them a few times as a teen in the 70s/80s. Cheers guys
Just about my favorite song from my favorite band from High School days. Suppose that makes me old.
@rockingthevillage I LOVE THE CLASH.THEY WROTE ABOUT IT BUT SLF LIVED IT ON THE STREETS OF BELFAST!
even now the fingers rock the house when they go into the old stuff........fucking legends......
Pure energy!
I'd like here now to thank the band for a teen life that made me the man I am today ..see you up there.
@Finbarbarfin Never mind the Clash... Of course Jake talks about the clash being an influence BUT... Jake Burns was a big Black Sabbath fan so he must have combined some Sabbath influence into his music too..! Which is probably why I FECKIN LOVE Stiff Little Fingers... I was brought up on Sabbath, Queen, Rush, Thin Lizzy.....etc (I'm supposedly an old fart at 45..). I just seen SLF at Glasgow Barrowlands, again... And they still ROCK! SLF are a Classic Rock band in their own right!
Super soirée à écouter les morceaux des stiff. Grosse defonce !! Souvenirs lampaulais de 1981!!
Who is going to Custom House, Belfast in August? Can’t wait 😊
Booked flights hotel and tickets last night after bumping back into this video. Buzzing me cock off.
brilliant song
Seen this band 3 times and they are one of the bands you'll no get bored with there rule punk and sing about the troubles of what happend in that Thatcher years but a still love them pure class and always will be played and never get bored with them there songs mean a lot for what happend in that era top class band to come out Ireland one of the best bands of that decade 💯 pure punk love them got all the album's love them
saw them 2 nites ago first time!! loved them since 84 they fn rocked !!!! all the money i wasted catching the stones ac dc and other over rated crap!!! phew!!! they were waaaay worth it oi!
Early SLF absolute class! Best punk band ever!
Love them !
Still listening 2021
24
What can I say? Most of the comments here pretty much sum it up so there is not that much point in me chiming in there because I can see we all love this and PUNKS NOT DEAD! All I will say is that you are a LEGEND for uploading this priceless page of the growing chronicle of punk rock, cemented in history. If our current generation had much more sense we would maybe see a new wave of punk, I guess that might be a possibility for the future. Who knows.
"The future is Unwritten"- Joe Strummer
"Go easy, step light, Stay Free..." - Mick Jones
I'm down the front somewhere at this gig.
I think I was next to you.
Ce groupe est GÉNIAL !
Superb, thank you.
Saw them play in Reading when I was about 14, nearly shit my pants! People were gobbing as I clung to some punks shoulders.
The sneeze at the end - I giggled a little
Gotta Getaway and now I'm in Cornwall, Ansum!
Saw this band in 1979 in my home town. They still sound so good. Some of the others from back then sound really dated.
SLF it's my favorite punk band of all time along with Sex Pistols, Snuff, The Exploited and DK
"Gotta gotta gettaway, gotta gotta gettaway
You know there ain't no street like home
To make you feel so all alone
Plenty of folk to tell you what to do
But they don't speak the same language as you
They wanna have me here
Have me and hold me near
Hold me down fasten and tie
But the cars are all flashing me
Bright lights are passing me
I feel life passing me by
The fuss is buzzing in my head
My father argued and my mother begged
It's not their words ain't tugging at me
But gotta stretch them break them get myself free
They wanna have me here
Have me and hold me near
Hold me down fasten and tie
But the cars are all flashing me
Bright lights are passing me
I feel life passing me by
Gotta gotta gettaway, gotta gotta gettaway
I'm leaving home"
In top 10 of my favourite punk songs
Best band north side of belfast thanks lads Hawkie slf 😁
real originals, really good sound