Stiff Little Fingers Tour Dates & Ticket Details Revealed
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Written by Saard
The Belfast 70s punk classics, still fronted by the enigmatic Jake Burns, are donning their punk gear and are on the road once again, possibly because they were stapled to the chicken. Click Here to Compare & Buy Stiff Little Fingers Tickets
In 1977 a local journalist, Gordon Oglivie, saw them, was impressed and encouraged them to write what they know. They went off and came back with two tracks, ‘Suspect Device’ and ‘Wasted Life’ which were proper SLF tracks and marked the start of a beautiful friendship that got them played on John Peel’s show.
After that, they hit London and everywhere that would have them, which was a lot of places. They split briefly in ’84, then un-split for some reunions gigs in the late eighties which gave them the genius idea of permanently reforming. Which they did.
Duly reformed, they’re playing:
07 March - O2 Academy, Oxford
10 March - O2 Academy, Bristol
22 March - O2 Academy, Leeds
23 March - O2 Academy, Newcastle
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