21/04/2014
In a Late Show special, Stiff Little Fingers talk about their first album in 11 years and choose records from their personal collections. Co-presented with Stuart Bailie.
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Simple Minds
East At Easter
- Virgin.
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Paul Weller
Brand New Toy
- Virgin.
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Future Islands
Sun In The Morning
- 4ad.
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Wilko Johnson, Roger Daltrey
Going Back 91热爆
- Chess.
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Benjamin Booker
Violent Shiver
- Rough Trade.
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Jo Bartlett
Highway Found
- Strikeback.
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Ciaran Laverty
Left For America
- Self Released.
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Camera Obscura
Break It To You Gently (live)
- 4ad.
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Al Green
You Ought To Be With Me
- Demon.
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Wild Beasts
A Simple Beautiful Truth
- Domino.
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Roddy Frame
White Pony
- AED.
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Metronomy
Reservoir
- Because.
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Billie Holiday
A Sunbonnet Blue
- Union Square.
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Thievery Corporation
Claridad
- ESL.
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Stiff Little Fingers
Alternative Ulster
- EMI.
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Stiff Little Fingers
When We Were Young
- Rigid Digits.
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Thin Lizzy
The Boys Are Back In Town
- Vertigo.
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The Clash
White Man In The Hammersmith Palais
- CBS.
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Culture
Two Sevens Clash
- VP.
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Stiff Little Fingers
My Dark Places
- Rigid Digits.
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Rory Gallagher
Laundromat
- Sony.
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Stiff Little Fingers
Since Yesterday Was Here
- Rigid Digits.
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Bob Marley
Johnny Was
- Island.
A 91热爆 Radio Ulster Late Show Special
Jake Burns and Ali McMordie, original members of Belfast punk legends Stiff Little Fingers, deliver a one hour radio programme to celebrate their new album, 鈥楴o Going Back鈥, their first since 2003.
They select some new SLF songs and also play personal favourites from The Clash, Living Colour, Rory Gallagher, Culture, Thin Lizzy and Bob Marley.
The band muse about the enduring power of their 1978 anthem, 鈥楢lternative Ulster鈥 and the rising support for the band across the world. This is reflected in the Pledge campaign that allowed fans to finance their new album in its entirety.
Jake Burns explains: "The idea of being completely independent again really appealed to us. Astonishingly, the audience raised the money in under 12 hours. My wife said it was like watching Election Night because these figures just kept going up and up. All that was missing was John Snow and his Swingometer.鈥
One of the new tracks, 鈥楳y Dark Places鈥, deals with Jake鈥檚 battle with depression:
鈥淚 went through a really torrid period of personal depression. The actual depression snuck up on me and when it did, it was incredibly debilitating. I had what was probably a Northern Irish reaction 鈥 pull yourself together, snap out of it.
鈥淎s I say in the song, there are days when you just want to go and hide. Then you realise you鈥檙e making a prisoner of yourself. You do actually feel sick at times. We鈥檝e had so many people come up to us after concerts, saying thank you for writing that, because there鈥檚 a stigma attached to it.
鈥淗opefully without us becoming poster boys for depression, it鈥檚 become a very important song, very quickly.鈥
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- Mon 21 Apr 2014 22:0391热爆 Radio Ulster & 91热爆 Radio Foyle