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| - Their first single, Suspect Device, was packaged in the form of a cassette bomb (causing one record company to accidentally throw it in a bucket of water, thinking it was real). It was locally released on the Rigid Digits label (this being a wordplay on their name) and Peel was sent a copy, playing it repeatedly (he included it in his list of records he wanted played at his 40th birthday party, 29 August 1979, and in later years, he would state that it had the best song ending of all). It was analogous to his heavy rotation of Teenage Kicks, although SLF and the Undertones were frequently at loggerheads. This led to a first session, privately recorded at a small studio at Downtown Radio in Belfast and broadcast on 13 April 1978: the band would record five in all. This exposure gained them
- Stiff Little Fingers is a founded in 1977 in Northern Ireland Belfast punk band. The band started as a school band called "Highway Star" (named after a Deep Purple-number), which covers rock, until the members discovered the punk . The Group changed the name to Stiff Little Fingers, to a single by punk band The Vibrators from 1976.
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| - Stiff Little Fingers is a founded in 1977 in Northern Ireland Belfast punk band. The band started as a school band called "Highway Star" (named after a Deep Purple-number), which covers rock, until the members discovered the punk . The Group changed the name to Stiff Little Fingers, to a single by punk band The Vibrators from 1976. Stiff Little Fingers took in the first occupation four albums on. the first album went mainly on the war in Northern Ireland with sharp, antimilitarist texts in songs likeAlternative Ulster and Gotta Getaway. Afterwards it was also widened and the texts went on other topics. The band went after six years apart but came back together in1987 and went back into the studio in the early 1990s also. Despite many line-up (singer Jake Burns is the only remaining band member from the original line-up), the band has been touring and still plays.
- Their first single, Suspect Device, was packaged in the form of a cassette bomb (causing one record company to accidentally throw it in a bucket of water, thinking it was real). It was locally released on the Rigid Digits label (this being a wordplay on their name) and Peel was sent a copy, playing it repeatedly (he included it in his list of records he wanted played at his 40th birthday party, 29 August 1979, and in later years, he would state that it had the best song ending of all). It was analogous to his heavy rotation of Teenage Kicks, although SLF and the Undertones were frequently at loggerheads. This led to a first session, privately recorded at a small studio at Downtown Radio in Belfast and broadcast on 13 April 1978: the band would record five in all. This exposure gained them a distribution deal with Rough Trade (eventually: JP publicly stated his disappointment at the record industry's lackadaisical approach in signing SLF) and their first LP, Inflammable Material, came out in 1979. It contained a heavy bias toward lyrics based on the Troubles, such as Alternative Ulster (the second single), Barbed Wire Love, a re-recorded version of Device, and Johnny Was (a Bob Marley cover which John did not warm to but was a Festive Fifty favourite).
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