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Artist:Stiff Little Fingers
Venue:Digbeth Civic Hall
City:  Birmingham, England, UK
Date:Wednesday, 10 Oct 1979
Collection:  Attended     Wishlist 
Community: 1 Attended


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Notes

Date changed - gig originally scheduled for Monday 15th October.

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Guy Mortensen
28th Nov 2023
 Review
I was at this gig, 17 years old, and, as I recall, they did around the same number of encores i.e. 17. The energy was phenomenal. It was the Ramones with a Molotov cocktail. They were in your face, but not for the sake of it, they weren't simply being 'naughty' or confrontational teenagers. They were saying something and their anger was born of frustrations with the social conditions caused by the Troubles.
What a band, what an album. 'Wasted life', just one of many gems.
There's a lot of guitar pop, not simply punk and poppy punk, in there. Surprised no one has covered 'Barbed Wire Love' or 'Breakout'. 'Alternative Ulster' is also a wonderful song, seminal - though of its time; so it couldn't really be re-worked today.
Great band, great gig, an honour to have been there.
Guy Mortensen

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