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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.

1 hour, 52 minutes

Last on

Mon 21 Apr 2014 22:03

Music Played

  • Simple Minds

    East At Easter

    • Virgin.
  • Paul Weller

    Brand New Toy

    • Virgin.
  • Future Islands

    Sun In The Morning

    • 4ad.
  • Wilko Johnson, Roger Daltrey

    Going Back 91热爆

    • Chess.
  • Benjamin Booker

    Violent Shiver

    • Rough Trade.
  • Jo Bartlett

    Highway Found

    • Strikeback.
  • Ciaran Laverty

    Left For America

    • Self Released.
  • Camera Obscura

    Break It To You Gently (live)

    • 4ad.
  • Al Green

    You Ought To Be With Me

    • Demon.
  • Wild Beasts

    A Simple Beautiful Truth

    • Domino.
  • Roddy Frame

    White Pony

    • AED.
  • Metronomy

    Reservoir

    • Because.
  • Billie Holiday

    A Sunbonnet Blue

    • Union Square.
  • Thievery Corporation

    Claridad

    • ESL.
  • Stiff Little Fingers

    Alternative Ulster

    • EMI.
  • Stiff Little Fingers

    When We Were Young

    • Rigid Digits.
  • Thin Lizzy

    The Boys Are Back In Town

    • Vertigo.
  • The Clash

    White Man In The Hammersmith Palais

    • CBS.
  • Culture

    Two Sevens Clash

    • VP.
  • Stiff Little Fingers

    My Dark Places

    • Rigid Digits.
  • Rory Gallagher

    Laundromat

    • Sony.
  • Stiff Little Fingers

    Since Yesterday Was Here

    • Rigid Digits.
  • 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

Broadcast

  • Mon 21 Apr 2014 22:03