The iconic Stiff Little Fingers debut album is presented as a 5-disc set (4CD+DVD). Along with a new remaster of the core album, it includes the band's earliest demos (never previously released), an unreleased 1979 concert from Troon and a swathe of BBC John Peel sessions.
The set's DVD includes the legendary Rough Trade 1979 SLF promotional film (unreleased and uncirculating) along with concert footage from Friars in Aylesbury originally broadcast on BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test in 1980 and a rare clip of 'Alternative Ulster' from the 1979 film Shellshock Rock.
The booklet features rare memorabilia and images from the time with 9,000-word liner notes from former NME journalist Stuart Bailie (author of Trouble Songs: Music and conflict in Northern Ireland) including fresh interviews with original band members and manager/lyricist Gordon Ogilvie
The 2CD and 2LP feature the new remastered album along with the unrelease 1979 convert from Troon
The last word on a classic album - a must have for SLF fans!
4CD/DVD
DISC ONE
ORIGINAL ALBUM
1 Suspect Device
2 State Of Emergency
3 Here We Are Nowhere
4 Wasted Life
5 No More Of That
6 Barbed Wire Love
7 White Noise
8 Breakout
9 Law & Order
10 Rough Trade
11 Johnny Was
12 Alternative Ulster
13 Closed Groove
(Bonus Tracks)
14 Suspect Device (Single Version)
15 Wasted Life (Single Version)
16 '78 RPM
17 Gotta Gettaway (Single Version)
18 Bloody Sunday
DISC TWO
BBC JOHN PEEL SESSIONS
(ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY RELEASED)
1-4 Broadcast 13th April 1978. Tracks 5 & 6 were never broadcast
1 Wasted Life
2 Johnny Was
3 Alternative Ulster
4 State Of Emergency
5 White Noise
6 No More Of That
7-10 Broadcast 12th September 1978
7 Johnny Was
8 Law & Order
9 Barbed Wire Love
10 Suspect Device
DISC THREE
1978 DEMOS
(ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
Island Records Demos Recorded 20th & 21st May 1978
1 '78 RPM
2 Johnny Was (Short Version)
3 White Noise
4 Alternative Ulster
5 Law & Order (No Vocal)
6 State Of Emergency
Outlet Studios, Belfast Demos September 1978
7 Revenge
8 Here We Are Nowhere
9 Rough Trade
10 No More Of That
11 Breakout
12 Barbed Wire Love
DISC FOUR
LIVE ALBUM
1979 TROON MAY 1979
(ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED OFFICIALLY)
DISC FIVE - DVD DISC
Shellshock Rock (Holywood Films) (October 1978)
Alternative Ulster (UNRELEASED)
Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC)
Filmed at Friar Aylesbury May 1979). Broadcast 25th July 1980
Barbed Wire Love / Gotta Gettaway (UNRELEASED)
Rough Trade Video (Summer 1979)
Suspect Device / Barbed Wire Love / Gotta Gettaway / Alternative Ulster
