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A copy of the single was sent to John Peel and within days of its release he was regularly playing it on his Radio One show.
Inflammable Material by Stiff Little Fingers (Album, Punk Inflammable Material by Stiff Little Fingers (Album, Punk
The back sleeve was a black and white photo of the group taken on the 'peace line' between the republican Falls Road and the loyalist Shankill Road.With Now Then we probably tried to jump too far, and we were all pulling in different directions then anyway. I’ve come across a bunch of Punk Rock bands, without naming any names, who seem almost deliberately to stay at the one level and it strikes me as almost Status Quo level when you hear each album and think, “it’s the same bloody record lads”.
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The track was named after a bar Burns drove past while listening to a press report about Tony Blair, George W.In an interview with Vice, Burns once said about the famous single “Alternative Ulster,” “If you took the references to the RUC and the British Army out you have a song that is about bored teenagers. Burns himself has never held back in his criticism of it, claiming that he's never rated it as a song, and deeply regrets including it an album where it simply doesn't fit. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD4\06 - Kicking Up A Racket.
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